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Williams Scotsman, Inc. (NASDAQ:WLSC), a leader in the mobile and modular space industry, today announced that its president and chief executive officer, Gerry Holthaus, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year� 2007 Award in the business services category in Maryland. According to Ernst & Young, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Gerry Holthaus was selected by an independent panel of judges and the award was presented at an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year gala event at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore on June 28. �While Williams Scotsman�s heritage dates back more than five decades, our entrepreneurial spirit has truly flourished over the last few years � thanks in large part to our dedicated employees,� said Holthaus. �I am extraordinarily proud of them and I�m excited about the new product applications and innovations we�ve brought to the mobile and modular space category, our international expansion, as well as our initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock market.� Leading professional services firm Ernst & Young marks the 21st anniversary of its Entrepreneur of the Year awards program this year and continues to honor entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. �Ernst & Young is honored to recognize extraordinary business leaders such as Gerry Holthaus and the companies they have built,� said David Jones, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program director in Maryland. As a Maryland award winner, Gerry Holthaus is now eligible for consideration for the national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 awards. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 17, 2007. The national Entrepreneur of the Year celebration is part of Ernst & Young�s Strategic Growth Forum. The overall national Entrepreneur of the Year award recipient is then considered for the global award to be announced in Monte Carlo. About the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards The Entrepreneur of the Year� awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year� Award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006, honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 125 cities and 40 countries. About Ernst & Young Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, is committed to enhancing the public�s trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting. Its 114,000 people in 140 countries pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism in providing a range of sophisticated services centered on our core competencies of auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions. Further information about Ernst & Young and its approach to a variety of business issues can be found at www.ey.com/perspectives. Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, a U.K. company limited by guarantee, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited does not provide services to clients. Ernst & Young LLP is a U.S. client-serving member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. About Williams Scotsman International, Inc. Williams Scotsman International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading provider of mobile and modular space solutions for multiple industry sectors, including the Construction, Education, Commercial, Healthcare and Government markets. The company serves over 30,000 customers, operating a fleet of over 118,000 modular space and storage units that are leased through a network of more than 100 locations throughout North America and Spain. Williams Scotsman provides delivery, installation, and other services, and sells new and used mobile office products. Williams Scotsman also manages large modular building projects from concept to completion. Williams Scotsman is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:WLSC) headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Spain. For additional information, visit the company�s web site at www.willscot.com, call (410) 931-6066, or email to Michele.Cunningham@willscot.com. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements and involve expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it assumes no responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of these forward-looking statements and gives no assurance that these expectations will prove to have been correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company�s expectations are disclosed under �Risk Factors� and elsewhere in the Company�s 10-K, 10-Q and other SEC filings, including, but not limited to, substantial leverage and its ability to service debt, changing market trends in its industry, general economic and business conditions including a prolonged or substantial recession, its ability to finance fleet and branch expansion and to locate and finance acquisitions, its ability to implement its business and growth strategy and maintain and enhance its competitive strengths, intense industry competition, availability of key personnel and changes in, or the failure to comply with, government regulations. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.