Pelican News is a monthly newsletter about what is happening at Blue Skies, the award winning fruit company. Some highlights from this month: Blue Skies wins its fourth Queen’s Award! We report on some of the amazing things people have been doing to keep Blue Skies going through the coronavirus […]
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Blue Skies wins fourth Queen’s Award
Blue Skies has today been awarded its fourth Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise was instituted by Royal Warrant in 1965 and is the highest official UK awards for British businesses. Businesses are awarded in three categories, International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable […]
Lockdown Diaries
As we find ourselves living through unprecedented times, some our General Managers have been recording their thoughts and feelings on how life has changed in their own countries. Here are a few revealing extracts from our GM’s ‘Lock Down Diaries’. From Janet Lutterodt in Ghana… These are unprecedented times since […]
Download our March edition of Pelican News
Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Find out what Blue Skies is doing in response to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. -Students from the University of Northampton pitch their ideas for the ‘Future of Fruit’. -An update […]
Going the extra mile to continue supplying fresh fruit to the world
With coronavirus (COVID-19) forcing governments around the world to close borders and restrict movement, Pelican News takes a look at what Blue Skies is doing to protect its people and its business. There have now been over 200,000 reported cases of coronavirus since it was first discovered in December. It […]
University of Northampton students pitch ideas to Blue Skies for the Future of Fruit
Students from the University of Northampton’s Faculty for Business and Law have pitched their ideas for products that could help a locally based fruit business meet the needs of the future. The FBL (Faculty of Business and Law) Challenge, has been devised by the University in partnership with Blue Skies.The […]
Download our February edition of Pelican News
Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies opens a new state-of-the art factory in Benin! -Blue Skies weathers February storms to keep customers supplied -Discover what we have been doing during Diversity and Equality month […]
Blue Skies launches new state-of-the-art facility in Benin
Blue Skies have launched a brand new fresh-cut facility in the West African country of Benin. The Republic of Benin is a French speaking country of 11 million people and is situated between Togo and Nigeria. The new facility incorporates a host of pioneering and new technologies that will increase […]
Toolkit to help agribusinesses run their own School Farm Competition
The Blue Skies Foundation has launched a new Toolkit for agribusinesses to start their own School Farm of the Year Competition. Following the success of the initiative launched by Blue Skies in Ghana in 2015, the Toolkit provides detailed guidance for other organisations to replicate the model which is designed […]
Download our January edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies calls on UK Government to support more value-added products from Africa -Blue Skies signs Reggie […]
