Blue Skies Ghana hosted the launch of a new Exporter-Outgrower financial initiative as part of the HortiFresh programme which is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Accra. The initiative aims to improve access-to-finance for smallholder farmers and export companies in the fruit and vegetable sector. […]
Category: General News
Northampton University Students pitch their ideas to Blue Skies
Six groups of students pitched their ideas to a panel of judges for potential future products for Blue Skies. The event, called the FBL (Faculty of Business and Law) Challenge was devised by the University of Northampton in partnership with Blue Skies. Representing Blue Skies were Group Technical Manager, Stephan […]
2018 Interim Sustainability Report is published
Blue Skies have published its interim Sustainability Report ‘Making Fruit Happy. The report provides an overview of the businesses approach to sustainability and the impact that the company had in 2018. A more detailed 2018/2019 report will be published later in the year. You can download the report from: https://fresh.blueskies.com/2018blueprint.pdf
Blue Skies partners University of Northampton to find the Future of Fruit
Students from the University of Northampton’s Faculty for Business and Law (FBL) are to pitch their ideas for products that could help a locally based fruit business meet the needs of the future. The FBL Challenge has been devised by the University in partnership with Northamptonshire based fruit company, Blue […]
Project to cut plastics wins Blueprint Award
Congratulations to Jolien Janse has won the overall prize in our 2018 Blueprint Awards. Jolien spearheaded an initiative on behalf of our Dutch team to remove all plastic sporks from their products, thereby saving over twenty four tons of plastics each year. The initiative received the most number of votes […]
Blue Skies agree Ten Sustainability Commitments
Blue Skies have agreed ten Blueprint Sustainability Commitments in response to the priorities identified in 2018 our stakeholder survey and taking in to account feedback received at our annual conference. This document will form a framework within which all of our operations can set targets and actions to enable the […]
Blue Skies Ice Cream launches in Ocado
Not only have we launched all 3 of our delicious, award winning ice cream flavours in Ocado, but everyone seems to love them! 5 out of 6 people have given us a 5-star rating already. We have just finished our first promotion with Ocado and sales are going from strength […]
Blue Skies spells out impact of a no-deal Brexit
Blue Skies have written to the Chamber of Commerce to highlight how the business would be affected if the UK were to leave the European Union on the 29th of March without a withdrawal agreement. Such a scenario would mean the UK automatically trades on World Trading Organisation (WTO) terms, […]
Pelican News reaches its 150th edition
This month’s newsletter is the 150th edition of Pelican News. The newsletter has come a long way since it was first introduced in 2006 when it was intended as just an internal publication for staff in Ghana. Thirteen years on and Pelican News now represents all our sites and is […]
Foundation aims for 100th project in its 10th year
The Blue Skies Foundation Board met in Ghana this month to approve thirteen more projects to go ahead in 2019. This will bring the total number of projects initiated by the Foundation since it was started in 2009 to exactly 100, in what will be its 10th year. The projects […]
