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 think that's a very good question. It was how do you try or get more minorities involved in going into business, and feeling that they can do that? And I think that I had talked with Dr. Streeter regarding some of that. I think that role models, letting them see people in business is probably t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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