The Results of our 2020 Stakeholder Survey Blue Skies have agreed its 2021 priorities following the completion of its annual Stakeholder Survey. Its top priorities for next year will be: Materials (with a particular emphasis on reducing plastics), Waste, Water, Energy, Health & Safety and Economic Performance. These are all […]
Category: Sustainability
Blue Skies reveals it’s Blueprint 2020 Top Ten
Blue Skies have published its 2020 Blueprint Priorities following its recent stakeholder engagement and 2020 survey. Over 119 people took part in the survey including staff, suppliers, shareholders, consumers, members of the local community, government and retailers. The results have been combined with the results of our leadership survey to […]
Blue Skies launches 2018/2019 Blueprint Sustainability Report
Blue Skies today launch our 2018/2019 Blueprint Report, which we have called our Joint Effort Enterprise Annual Statement. The document is the most comprehensive report on our sustainability ever published and is designed to provide all our stakeholders with an overview of our business, our approach to sustainability and our […]
Blue Skies leads way in fight against BBS
Blue Skies has been instrumental in the growth of the mango industry in Ghana, having been the main buyer for farmers for the past two decades. In addition, the Foundation has established a regional training centre and the business has helped pioneer agronomy techniques to improve farm productivity and control […]
Blue Skies joins plastic debate at World Circular Economy Forum
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Hugh Pile, recently appeared on an expert panel hosted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the World Circular Economy Forum in Helsinki, to discuss the future of plastics and the circular economy. Blue Skies is looking to work with UNCTAD […]
Eleven years to save the planet
Just over a decade is all that remains to stop irreversible damage from climate change, according to a recent high level meeting convened by the UN General Assembly, in which world leaders were urged to take ambitious and urgent action to address what is increasingly seen as a global emergency. […]
Construction starts on new Classroom Block
A sod cutting ceremony was recently held in Ghana to officially mark the start of a new three classroom block for a Primary School at the village of Nsumia, which is located just a few miles from the Blue Skies factory. Work is already progressing and construction is expected to […]
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 […]
