Coca-Cola is planning to produce an alcoholic drink for the first time in the company's 125-year history - with an alcopop-style product in Japan. It is keen to cash in on the country's growing taste for Chu-Hi - canned sparkling flavoured drinks given a kick with a local spirit called...
Progress in the fight against hunger is patchy. New tools must target action to those who are most vulnerable In 2000, the United Nations hosted the largest gathering of political leaders ever held. At that meeting, all 189 UN member states, plus leading development institutions, committed to the Millennium Development...
A report released by the World Bank says Ghana’s macroeconomic performance continues to show improvement as in 2017 it performed better than the difficult 2016. Per the report which is dubbed ‘3rd edition of the Ghana Economic Update’, the country’s economy in a fifth successive quarter in 2017, has expanded...
Stakeholders and farmers of AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Gold Mine host communities have met to deliberate and agree on crop rates for mine-wide farm compensation for 2018. The meeting, which is held yearly, brings together relevant stakeholders to review crop rates used to pay compensation to farmers whose activities are...
SIC Financial Services Limited (SIC-FSL) one of the shareholders of ADB has denied having pledged its shares in adb to uniBank in fulfillment of an earlier financial commitment. A source within the company tells thebftonline.com that, SIC FSL which is an arm of the State Insurance Company (SIC) a government...
To celebrate this year’s, celebrate International Women's Day, an international airline on the Abidjan – Accra – Brussels route, Brussels Airlines will today operate an all-women crew flight. Today’s flight is a symbolic action to strive for more equality for women and also being done because Women's Day is widely...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday said after a year of fiscal discipline and innovative economic management, the results have been remarkable. “Ghana’s economy has grown from 3.6 per cent in 2016, the lowest in 22 years, to 7.9 per cent in 2017, and this year it’s expected to...
Government must consider the setting up of an Agricultural Development Authority to regulate the production and marketing of agricultural products so as to attract the needed investment into the sector. “We need an Agricultural Development Authority to regulate sector’s trade, and also the production and market aspects. We need to...
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison has stated that the central bank has not approved any takeover of ADB by Unibank. According to Dr. Addison, his outfit heard of the news in the media today and has not approved any such deal. The governor’s comments come just...
BoG reacts GSE suspends trading of ADB shares ADB confirms move but backs BOG More acquisitions in the wind The opinions of economic and banking analysts are divided over uniBank’s ‘takeover’ of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), while the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) on Wednesday suspended trading of ADB...