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.
I know when I bought this building in this area, many of my friends thought I just lost my mind. They said, why would you want to go down to this area? They had riots there two years ago by this building. Well, I saw an opportunity in this area. Because the city had spent about $15 million renov...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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