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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, 2007

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Page one of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year press-kit correspondence, 29 June 2007. Personal contact details are redacted.

Provenance

Source
Press-kit correspondence from the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year programme, Metropolitan New York Area, sent 29 June 2007. Held as a PDF print of the original mail thread.
File
SHA-256 45069e94208235ffaaeec20c2aa1fd2f9555c084712a720985b78b2db89580f6, 172,470 bytes, one page.
Rendering
Rasterised at 150 dpi. The text layer is the PDF's own embedded text with word-level coordinates, not a re-recognition of the image, so the words above are the document's own.
Redactions
Seventeen bars. They cover e-mail addresses, direct telephone and fax numbers, two office addresses, the names of three people who are not the subject, and the private mailbox URL in the page footer. Nothing bearing on the award was redacted. The redactions are burned into the image and the covered words are absent from the text layer, so they cannot be recovered by selecting or searching.

What this document establishes — and what it does not

It establishes: that the award was made; that the ceremony was the evening of 28 June 2007; that the programme was the Metropolitan New York Area Entrepreneur Of The Year; that a press release was issued through Business Wire on 29 June 2007; and that the recipient's company was Squared Designs.

It does not establish the award category. The phrase Young Entrepreneur does not appear anywhere in this document. That clause of the honour line rests on the recipient's own statement and is not corroborated here. Saying so is the point of publishing the document rather than a summary of it.

The Business Wire release named in the letter is the other primary source. It was located — The Metropolitan New York Area's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) Award Winners Announced, 29 June 2007 — but its body could not be read: Business Wire returns HTTP 403 to automated requests, and as of a query on 2026-08-27 the Wayback availability API reported no snapshot has ever been taken of that URL. It is therefore listed below as a citation, not quoted.

Cite this document

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year programme, Metropolitan New York Area. Press Kit for Your EOY Award, correspondence, 29 June 2007. Reproduced with redactions at https://kamarinlee.com/press/ (accessed —). SHA-256 45069e94208235ffaaeec20c2aa1fd2f9555c084712a720985b78b2db89580f6.
Business Wire. The Metropolitan New York Area's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) Award Winners Announced. 29 June 2007. businesswire.com. Body not read; the host returns 403 to automated requests and no web-archive snapshot exists.