Blue Skies have once again made it through to the finals of the Fresh Awards. This year Blue Skies are finalists in the CSR Excellence category (which it won last year) and the Best Place to Work category. The Fresh Awards from the Fresh Produce Consortium are the industry’s most […]
Author: Simon Derrick
2016 Foundation projects take shape
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Download your March edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Click here to download it. Some highlights from this month’s newsletter: -The Bishop of Peterborough pays a visit to Blue Skies -We meet Meet Lucy Kuffour of Blue Skies Ghana -A new training centre opens in Egypt […]
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 […]
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 […]
Download your February edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Click here to download it. Some highlights from this month’s newsletter: -Work starts on the first Foundation projects -On this day eighteen years ago… -Demonstrating a more progressive audit Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our […]
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 […]
