Earl Blanks is a former owner of a Party City franchise. Prior to his involvement with Party City, Blanks had started a small consulting business, the Small Business Marketing Planning Center, which provided marketing consulting services to smaller companies that generated $3-5 M per year in sales. Prior to that experience, Blanks worked at Procter & Gamble for over 7 years. Earl Blanks received his undergraduate degree from University of Arkansas and his MBA from Cornell University.
Our retail stores were positioned in the suburbs. And my clients were people of means and money. And I have to admit that. And in my 30 years since the business school, we have lived in the suburbs, long from the inner city. I felt as we ran those stores, and as we read about problems in inner c...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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