The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) said on Tuesday that its annual pre-export financing will be raised as usual through a syndicated loan, denying a report its usual lenders had declined to underwrite the risk. Loan Pricing Corporation, a unit of financial data firm Refinitiv, reported last week that financing for...
Employers have been urged to feed employees with the right information especially during this COVID-19 period. Director, Human Resource of Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, noted that businesses should put in place proper communications channel. “Organizations need to understand what the anxieties are for their employees as well as marry...
As part of its promise to continuously provide financial and business skills to female entrepreneurs, Africa’s largest retail bank, Access Bank, has unveiled the second edition of its “Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton” campaign. The “Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton” Africa 2020 Campaign is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access...
…in managing workers’ anxiety For organisations to effectively manage the anxieties of their staff, coming from fear of losing their jobs or dealing with salary cuts and other inconvenient situations emanating from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, open and honest communication, as well as responsible leadership are key, human...
Even though businesses globally have had their share of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey conducted by the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry has established that the most hit businesses in Ghana are in the SME sector. CEO of Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry,...
The partnership will undertake a campaign that taps into JA’s vast online community, comprising over one million young social media followers spread across Africa Junior Achievement (JA) Africa and Ecobank Group have announced a new partnership – ‘Banking on Africa’s Youth’. The partnership will undertake a campaign that taps into...
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. recently unveiled a four-year plan to achieve sustainable growth, financial stability and profitability by the end of fiscal-year 2023. The scalable plan, involving cost-rationalization and business optimization, will shift the company's strategy from its past focus on inflated expansion. As part of the four-year plan, Nissan...
For over 27 years, Prisoners at the Ahinsan Camp Prison have had to resort to using a dilapidated wooden structure as a place of convenience - which exposed them to all kinds of infectious diseases. Reaffirming its commitment to the health and safety of communities where it operates, Vivo Energy...
Director of Human Resources at Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, has said businesses cannot go back to the way they were doing business before the pandemic even if the virus is contained. Speaking at first 2020 edition of the B&FT’s Ghana’s Most Respected CEO’s Breakfast, Ms Akrong intimated that businesses...
One advantage entrepreneurs of our time have is innovation. The technological world we live in today has created the platform for innovation, especially, among young people. And so, young men and women of our time who venture into entrepreneurship are making things through technology and innovation. That is why...