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Pierre Péladeau Bursaries - Quebecor hands out $200,000 to support young entrepreneurs
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nPierre Péladeau Bursaries - Quebecor hands out $200,000 to support young entrepreneurs\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nMONTRÉAL, May 14, 2020\n\n\n\nMONTRÉAL, May 14, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - Pierre Karl Péladeau, President and CEO of Quebecor, accompanied by the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Chairman of the Board of Quebecor, today announced the recipients of the 22nd Pierre Péladeau Bursaries at Quebecor's Annual Meeting of Shareholders. In keeping with its commitment to supporting the next generation of Québec entrepreneurs, Quebecor is pleased to award student entrepreneurs four bursaries totalling $200,000 to recognize their excellent work and help them turn their business plans into reality.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"With our entrepreneurial roots, we have always believed it is imperative to foster the development of the next generation of entrepreneurs and help establish innovative start-ups, which are so critical to the diversification and growth of our economy,\" said Pierre Karl Péladeau, President and CEO of Quebecor. \"In the current crisis, it is even more important for us to support these emerging businesses, which will certainly have a role to play in Québec's economic recovery.\"\nCongratulations to the 2020 Pierre Péladeau Bursary winners\n$100,000 BURSARY - BoomerangBasile Thisse, Mathieu Gauthier, Alexis Galand and Tangui Conrad, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal\nBoomerang fights food waste by collecting the spent grains that are the by-product of microbreweries' brewing process. Normally discarded, composted or fed to animals, the material has abundant nutritional properties that have been untapped for human consumption. The company reclaims the by-product and processes it into flour for use in healthy and tasty foods, at the same time reducing the environmental impact of our food consumption.\n$50,000 BURSARY - EyfulMichael Perreault and Sami Maarabouni, École de technologie supérieure\nEyful develops glasses to improve the vision o...