The 2019 Blueprint Awards have been announced during the Blue Skies Annual Conference at Sedgebrook Hall in the UK. In total, over 25 nominations were received in three categories; Care for the Environment, Respect for People and Driving Efficiencies. Pictured top left: Lukasz Banas from Blue Skies UK collects the […]
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Conference unveils Future Fit plan
Blue Skies held its annual conference on the 18-20 November at Sedgebrook Hall in the UK. The conference brings together people from each of our sites around the world and offers an opportunity for sharing ideas and collaborating on our plans for the future. This year’s conference adopted the theme […]
Save our Trees!
Blue Skies Ghana have fought off an attempt from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NDMO) to cut down a tree which the business has sought to protect for the past ten years. The tree, which is 15 metres in height and is a Ceiba, is native to tropical and subtropical […]
Blue Skies Ghana announces voluntary redundancies
Blue Skies Ghana have announced a voluntary redundancy programme for staff at its fresh fruit processing facility near to Nsawam. The announcement comes as the business makes adjustments in response to a struggling market in the UK due to uncertainty over Brexit, and continuing challenges over raw material availability in […]
Working towards zero waste in Ghana
Our business has grown by providing the highest quality fresh-cut fruit made ‘at source’ at our factories in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil and the UK. More recently, we have entered the branded category, supplying our multi award-winning vegan ice-cream. But this ice-cream isn’t just a story about creating an […]
Download our October Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: Blue Skies publishes its Blueprint 2020 Top Ten FPJ Fruit Supplier of the Year awarded to Blue […]
Blue Skies Brazil opens new canteen
A new extension of the canteen at our factory in Brazil was finally completed in time for their 12th anniversary celebrations. Staff were treated to a special lunch organised to mark the occasion with a solo guitar singer playing while meals were served. It was a great team effort with […]
Blue Skies reveals it’s Blueprint 2020 Top Ten
Blue Skies have published its 2020 Blueprint Priorities following its recent stakeholder engagement and 2020 survey. Over 119 people took part in the survey including staff, suppliers, shareholders, consumers, members of the local community, government and retailers. The results have been combined with the results of our leadership survey to […]
Blue Skies wins Fruit Supplier of the Year at FPJ Awards
Blue Skies has picked up Fruit Supplier of the Year at the 2019 FPJ Fruit and Vegetable Awards. The award was collected by Hugh and Denzil at an awards social held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
We just removed everyone’s wastepaper baskets!
This week people in our Pitsford office came to work to find all their waste-paper bins had been removed, only to be replaced with funky new ‘desk-top’ bins made from some repurposed old ice-cream pots! What on earth for? Well, normal wastepaper baskets tend to get used for all kinds […]