This month’s Pelican news features the new Blue Skies logo which is being introduced as part of a major relaunch of the Blue Skies brand and product range across Europe, Africa and America. The new logo features the Pelican and is designed to express the Blue Skies brand sense of […]
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March Pelican News is out Now!
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Click here to download it. In this month’s newsletter 8 Miles buys a minority stake in Blue Skies, work starts on our 2017 Foundation Projects and Blue Skies reaches the final in three categories at the FPC Fresh Awards. Pelican […]
2017 Foundation Projects started
On Friday 25th March the Blue Skies Foundation held the first of its 2017 Ground Breaking ceremonies to formally start this year’ projects. It began with a durbar at the village of Esikabew where the Foundation is constructing a six classroom Primary School block. This was attended by the Director […]
Blue Skies finalists at FPC Fresh Awards
Blue Skies are finalists again at the FPC Fresh Awards, this year making it through in the Supermarket Supplier of the Year and CSR Excellence categories, and with our very own Marta Gozdzik in the Manager of Year category! The winners will be announced at an Awards Dinner on the […]
8 Miles buys minority stake in Blue Skies
UK Private Equity firm ‘8-Miles’, which is chaired by Sir Bob Geldof and focuses on investments in Africa, has bought a minority stake in Blue Skies. Blue Skies Chairman and founder Anthony Pile said: “Blue Skies is pleased that 8 Miles has taken a minority stake in the company. We […]
UK Foreign Secretary visits Blue Skies Ghana
UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, visited Blue Skies Ghana this month as part of a short tour of West Africa. Mr. Johnson spent just over an hour at Blue Skies where he received a tour of the factory and spoke with Blue Skies Chairman Anthony Pile about the history of […]
Anthony Pile receives MBE from HRH Prince Charles
Congratulations to Blue Skies Founder and Chairman Anthony Pile who received his MBE from HRH Prince Charles this month. Anthony is pictured with Jenny, Tom and Hugh at Buckingham Palace.
Blue Skies SA looks forward to new factory
Twenty years ago a man had a dream to build factories that would process fresh-fruit salads within the countries where the fruit grew, in order to provide people with real fresh-from-harvest fruit. That vision came to life and today we see the Blue Skies dream expanding, and changing people’s lives […]
Blue Skies gives pens to schools
Blue Skies Ghana have distributed over 100,000 pens to schools in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The pens were donated on behalf of the UK Charity Pens for Kids. Foundation Manager Alistair Djimatey is pictured below distributing pens to two local schools. You can find out more about Pens for […]
New GM appointed at Blue Skies Brazil
Congratulations to Flavia Mometti who has been appointed our General Manager at Blue Skies Brazil. Flavia has been our Technical Manager in Brazil since 2007 and had developed a comprehensive understanding of the business. The company has been managed by a committee for a few years while we searched for […]