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 […]
Category: General News
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 […]
Blue Skies 2015 Outlook
Blue Skies Chairman and Founder Anthony Pile gives his outlook for 2015 Blue Skies has managed to come through to the end of the year sound and in good condition. There have been many difficulties throughout the last 12 months, but the Blue Skies approach is always to depend as […]
Trees of Southern Ghana and how they are used
In the early days of Blue Skies Ghana, Anthony had a great friend called Luis Gadzanaki with whom Anthony would often drive around the countryside in the course of business visiting farms and villages in southern Ghana. Anthony of course has a great interest in all natural things, especially trees, […]
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 […]
Blue Skies Senegal end season in style
As the Senegalese mango harvest comes to an end, the management team at the pack house organised social activities to crown the season. This year’s activities included a football match between the Blue Skies Senegal ‘Pelicans’ and Seidu’s Mango Warriors (from the neighbouring farm), and a get-together and appreciation of […]
Blue Skies Walk for Sara
On 27th September over thirty people met at the Blue Skies UK office to embark on a nine mile walk in memory of Sara Brookes. People from Blue Skies past and present and friends and family of Sara came from near and far to walk together around Pitsford Water and […]
