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Dream Live Prosper lives up to its names

N early a decade ago, Don Wenner asked Dream
By Mandy Housenick Special to The Morning Call
Live
employee Cindy Lou Lapp what she
Prosper
wanted for Christmas.
“I wanted a 401(k),” Lapp recalled,
midsize
“but at the time we weren’t quite big enough, so he No. 2
matched what I put into my IRA. As we grew, he got company
us 401(k)s.”
Lapp, a real estate agent, began working for Wen-
ner10 years ago, before he formed DLP. She was one Founded: 2010
of four employees. Now, DLP has four Lehigh Valley Ownership:
offices and 159 employees. Private
“I was hired as the office manager,” Lapp said. “I Sector:
Packaging and
thought it was funny that I was an office manager facilities
and it was just me in the office.” supplies
Wenner’s vision of an office for Lapp to manage distribution It is one of several honors “He envisioned an office DLP real es-
came to fruition in the years since he formed his Employees: bestowed on DLP. The Wall and employees,” she said, tate agent
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Street Journal ranked it the
Cindy Lou
company in 2010. Website: country’s No. 8 real estate “and he wanted someone Lapp, left,
who was going to take every-
Those employees who have come aboard enjoy dreamlive- team. one else he hired and mold shows
Inc., a weekly magazine
working for DLP as much as Lapp has. prosper.com dedicated to small busi- them. He just had this ener- Amanda
It is why DLP was voted the No. 2 midsize em- nesses and startups, rated it gy.” Eventually, Wenner’s vi- Kohler, a
potential
ployer in the 2019 Top Workplaces survey. oneofthenation’s5,000fast- sion came to fruition and buyer, a home
This is the fifth consecutive year DLP, head- est growing companies six Lapp’s goal of returning to in Macungie.
quarteredinBethlehem,hasbeenrankedamongthe years in a row. the role of real estate agent APRIL GAMIZ/
It started with Wenner’s
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