The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) says individual companies in Turkey have shown interest in buying honey from Ghana, but the volumes cannot be met now. Mr Stephen Normeshie, General Manager, GEPA said the Authority would organise the honey producers to train them on group marketing, to enable them to meet the demands of these […]
Category: Economy
Ghana Promotes Domestic Tourism to Defy Ebola
By Lawrence Adjei in Accra, Ghana MID dropping international arrivals owing to a deadly outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, Ghana is promoting domestic tourism to keep the industry viable. The disease has killed thousands since it broke out in the region earlier this year, with tourism among the worst affected industries. To retain viability […]
IFEJ-Flamingo Award For Financial Journalism Closes On Sept 12
By Business Desk, Accra, Ghana Submission of entries for the first edition of the IFEJ-Flamingo Award for Business, Economic and Financial Journalism closes on Thursday September 12, 2014. All submissions are to be made at the Secretariat of the Ghana Journalists Association (Press Centre) by the close of business on September 12 and is opened […]
British Airways Connects Tourists To More Goodies
By Staff reporter, in Accra, Ghana Fridge magnets, novelty t-shirts and miniature statues were once the souvenirs to bring home from travels. However, in recent years, a ‘taste for travel’ means that international foods are the top tourist take-aways, according to insight from British Airways. From over 200 destinations that British Airways and its codeshare […]
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PharmaAfrica Endorses UNIDO As Headline Partner For Summit
PharmaAfrica has announced that the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) will be supporting 2nd Africa Pharmaceutical Summit (APS) and Pharmatech Africa (PTA) Exhibition as headline partner. The summit is slated from the 10 to 12th of September, 2014, at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, Ghana. It will bring stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry […]
GCAP To Boost Agri-Business Investment
By Mashood .A Kunateh in Accra, Ghana Managers of the Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project (GCAP) are confident that the multimillion dollar World Bank and USAID funded project would help boost private sector investments in the country’s agric sector. According to them, the GCAP is working to sanitise and magnetise the agribusiness investment in Ghana. The […]
GSK Eyes Ghana In £100m Expansion Plan
The Chief Executive Officer of GSK, Sir Andrew Witty who reveled this at 5th EU-Africa Business Forum in Brussels, capital of Belgium, noted that the selected sites would be announced in due course, and subject to governments’ agreement. Over the next five years, GSK will look to partner with a number of African countries to […]
Businesses Less Optimic About Achieving Targets
The latest surveys conducted by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) have revealed that businesses in the country are less optimistic about achieving their targets for capital outlay, employment, sales, and revenue due to increases in utility and fuel price hikes. This generally softening business and consumer sentiments in the West African second largest economy. On […]
India Investments In Ghana Go UP
Indian investments in Ghana have reached $800 million, spanning diverse sectors of the Ghanaian economy, including manufacturing, mining, housing, construction and education. This follows the up in the volume of bilateral trade between Ghana and India, which for the first time hit $1.2 billion. The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Jeeva Sagar has disclosed this […]