UK Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, and UK Trade Envoy to Ghana, Adam Afriyie, visited Blue Skies today with the British High Commission to Ghana to see how the company is managing to export high quality value-added fresh-fruit products and employ over three thousand people, despite the challenges being faced […]
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Vegetable Farming project takes shape in Ghana
Thanks to Perpetual Ofasi, Blue Skies Ghana for the report and the photos At the beginning of the year a vegetable farm was started by Blue Skies at the Dam Site. The purpose of this initiative is to supply the canteen with fresh and hygienic vegetables. This is to promote […]
Blue Skies Egypt opens new training centre
Blue Skies Egypt has recently inaugurated the new Training Centre. It was designed and built internally by BSE Engineering Manager, Khaled Awad. It consists of two large rooms and was built above the cafeteria building. There was a demand for a training facility for our staff as well as our […]
The Bishop of Peterborough pays a visit to Blue Skies HQ
The Rt Revd Donald Allister, the Bishop of Peterborough, paid a visit to the Blue Skies Head Office in Pitsford in March. The office falls under the Diocese of Peterborough so the Bishop was keen to find out more about what we do, our culture and the impact we have […]
Demonstrating a more progressive way of auditing
In 2014 Blue Skies introduced a ground breaking new second party auditing system. The second party (the purchaser in the farmer/purchaser relationship) social audits that we do at our farm suppliers in Egypt and Ghana are carried out by our people who live in these countries and understand the social […]
On this day eighteen years ago
On 26th February 1998 – exactly eighteen years ago – Blue Skies despatched its first ever consignment of fresh-cut Smooth Cayenne pineapple from Ghana to London on a British Airways Boeing 767 service that flew 3 times per week. It was just a few kilos of core-in cylinders but it was […]
Inter-departmental games take place in Ghana
The Blue Skies Ghana inter-departmental games took place in December 2015. This was organized by the manager of the Blue Skies Pelican Football team (Eben Asare) in a bid to recruit new players and to give people the opportunity to exercise and have some fun. The High Care Team won […]
Our journey has only just begun
Anthony Pile looks forward to an exciting year ahead Blue Skies was first incorporated in April 1997. Almost 19 years ago. Our first production, which was cut pineapple to Sainsbury’s, was in Ghana on 26th February 1998, almost 18 years ago! Our aim then, as it is now, was to […]
Remembering the Rasta-man
Blue Skies Ghana’s first General Manager David Arnold remembers a very special personIn January 1998 after being in Ghana for only two or three days and very much “wet behind the ears” I espied a wall of flame about ¾ of a mile away from the factory. I walked down […]
Safety first at Blue Skies Brazil
This month Blue Skies Brazil took part in the 4th SIPAT Occupational Accident Prevention Week. It was a whole week dedicated to instruct, train and alert all staff in order to reduce the number of internal accidents to zero. We had five days of lectures with ergonomists, physiotherapists, biologists, firefighters, safety […]