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Sunday, 30 October 2016

Winners of our mug draw + a reader offers an XLSX tracker of his own

** Winners of our mug draw: We have 22 sets of Enterprise mugs left over from back when we thought we were launching a print magazine about entrepreneurs called … Enterprise. (How pre-2011 is that?) So that’s exactly how many names we’ve drawn, giving us a good excuse to order up another batch for the next time we do this. The winners (in alphabetical order by first name) are below. We’ll be contacting each of them later this morning asking them to pass on their physical address and their telephone numbers so we can make deliveries.

  • Ahmed El Sewedy (El Sewedy Industries)
  • Angus Downie (African Development Bank)
  • Anna Chrisp (Australian Embassy)
  • Benjamin Pierce (US embassy)
  • Bill Stewart (Blumberg Grain)
  • Bruce Ludwig (Ludwig Capital)
  • Christine Kalindjian (Arqaam Capital)
  • Engy Khaled (AUC)
  • Frances Ames (Ajeej)
  • Hossam Abou Moussa (Actis)
  • Ibrahim Ouf (Harvard University)
  • Maha Hussein (World Bank)
  • Marc Koolen (GSK)
  • Mennatullah Sultan (Sharkawy & Sarhan)
  • Mohamed Ebeid (EFG Hermes)
  • Mohamed Hafez (Citibank Egypt)
  • Nader Ghabbour (GB Auto)
  • Osama Ezzeldin (CIB)
  • Patrick Oszczeda (Thales)
  • Sallie Pisch (Scoop Empire)
  • Samir Nabil (Decathlon)
  • Tarek El Kady (JLL)

BONUS: We know we have the best readers on the planet — you prove it daily with your emails full of ideas, thoughtful criticism and (often) a desire to help out members of the community. A case in point: A gentleman who asked only to be identified as an “avid Enterprise reader working at the Mantrac-Unatrac Group” crunched our daily FX data to create an XLSX illustrating the weekly spread in 2016 between the official and parallel market USD EGP rates in both percentage and absolute terms. His only motivation? “In an attempt to be a Samaritan I want to share the attached spreadsheet to support all the readers of Enterprise in justifying their YTD FX losses along their various lines of business.” Download the reader’s XLSX here.

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