Professional Trade Publications (PTP) is a family-owned publishing business dedicated to nurturing quality craftsmanship in the construction trades. Founded in 1999, it is located in Eugene, Oregon.
PTP publishes two magazines, PaintPRO and Concrete Decor, which serve more than 100,000 construction professionals worldwide. The company also produces a consumer-oriented Web site, findthePRO.com, and Better Design e-magazine designed to highlight the many possibilities available in painting and decorative concrete.
A fifth-generation publisher
who had his own contracting business for many years,
Bent Mikkelsen combines his family heritage and knowledge
of the trades to create high-quality magazines that are
chock full of informative, well-written articles and
photos. Bent is assisted in the business by his wife
Sheri, circulation manager, Sharlee Tergesen, circulation
assistant, and his father Ernst, company president. Other
company members include Steven Stanley, art director;
Mark Dixon, web designer; Rosemary Camozzi, senior editor,
and John Strieder, assistant editor. The magazines are
also enriched by the work of our exceptional writers
across the country.
