Work on our 2016 Foundation projects is making good progress. This year’s projects include a three classroom block, staff common room, office and store for Chinto Community School near to our factory in Dobro, a clinic for a coconut growing community in the Western Region of Ghana, a new classroom […]
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UK Minister for Africa visits Blue Skies Ghana
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 […]
Meet Lucy Kuffour
Lucy Kuffour of Blue Skies Ghana was born on the 16th of June 1958 and hails from Sekondi, in the Western Region. Lucy relocated to Nsawam to stay with her brother in 1978 after completing school, where she started supporting her Aunt in trading for a few years before she […]
Meet Kwame Asante
Kwame Asante has been with the family of Blue Skies Ghana since 7th June 2003. He started working at the Intake Department where he was sorting, de-crowning and sanitizing fruits and later moved to the Dispatch Department to help with the packing and loading of products on to the containers. […]
Cedi could hit Ghana’s exports
Blue Skies Founder and Chairman Anthony Pile gives his view on the development of Ghana’s export economy. Ghana needs investors and there are plenty of opportunities for foreign direct investment (FDI) in a country where there is an abundance of raw materials and a superb workforce in readiness. Like Blue […]
Meet Gifty Odame Asare
Mrs. Gifty Odame Asare is one of the thirty five pioneers of Blue Skies Products Ghana when it started operations in 1998. Gifty joined Blue Skies in December 1998 as a production operative and worked in High Care for one year before being transferred to the print room due to […]
President John Dramani Mahama opens new factory for Blue Skies Ghana
His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama has officially opened a new factory for Blue Skies in Ghana. This new state-of-the-art facility is located on the doorstep of the company’s two factories in Dobro near to Nsawam, and will enable Blue Skies to expand its juice business and launch exciting new […]
Meet Grace Gyamerah
Grace joined Blue Skies on 11th August 2003 as a contract cashier. During her stay here she worked as the petty cashier, prepared the pay roll for contract and permanent staff and worked on bank reconciliation, loans and floats. Currently, she is still in charge of bank reconciliation, payroll for […]
Meet Eric Yamoah Paintsil
Eric Paintsil runs Zulu Farm in Ghana. He is a young, enterprising farmer from the Western Region of Ghana. He currently lives in Kasoa-Odumpong a town about 20 minutes drive from ‘Zulu’, a 1,000 ha farm he now manages for Blue Skies. Zulu Farms has over 20 ha of Queen Victoria […]
Blue Skies Ghana allays redundancy fears despite power crisis
Blue Skies is considering a number of options to address power shortages in Ghana; however it has no immediate plans to lay off staff despite media reports claiming the contrary. Blue Skies Ghana has been running on its diesel generators for over 50% of the time due to load shedding […]