It is said that adversity is a gift. Well, it depends on what you make out of the situation you are confronted with. Alberta is a typical example of a young lady who made the best out of a troubled situation. Just as would be expected of every young...
The Danish Foreign Minister, Anders Samuelsen, has engaged a group of young entrepreneurs in Ghana at the Institute of Economic Affairs in Accra. The meeting, which was attended by the minister and officials from the Danish Embassy in Ghana, sought to create a platform for promising young entrepreneurs to share...
  Invest In Africa (IIA) has, in a bid to offer solutions to the challenges facing small businesses in the country, introduced projects that seek to address the skills gap, access to market, and access to finance by SMEs. In an interview with the B&FT at the SME CEO Summit held...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has provided capacity building and business enhancement support for about 50,000 micro small and medium enterprises in the country since the start of the year, its CEO, Ms. Kosi Yankey, has disclosed. The beneficiary enterprises, drawn from agro processing, garment and manufacturing,...
When things are tough you find a way to create something and lemonade he did make out of lemons. Odei Amoako Atta is one of the most determined young men of his generation. Being on the back bench isn’t one of the things this shoe maker has in mind....
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Ghana has successfully kicked off a new initiative dubbed Ghana Days to attract French and Francophone companies extend their business activities to the country. Ghana Days is an initiative which seeks to promote the Ghanaian market, its viability, lucrative and potential nature to...
As part of the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Week, the British Council, Ghana is hosting its second Social Thursday seminar for the year on Thursday, 16 November, 2017 from 6pm - 8pm on the theme “Teching” Social Enterprises in a Digital Age. The goal of the seminar is to expose social enterprise leaders to transformational...
Wooww!!! That was what I said when I saw products made by Tekura Enterprise Ltd. They are carefully crafted; artistically designed; and above all, have been embroiled with African culture and heritage. But what I appreciate most is the brain behind all these—Audrey Forson. Read on as she shares...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has launched an incubator programme in partnership with the Strategies to Promote Innovative Networks (SPINnet)—Garment and Textiles Cluster to groom and accelerate entrepreneurs and small-scale businesses in the garments and textiles sector. The NBSSI/SPINnet Incubator Programme will train existing and potential start-ups...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has launched an incubator programme in partnership with the Strategies to Promote Innovative Networks (SPINnet)—Garment and Textiles Cluster to groom and accelerate entrepreneurs and small-scale businesses in the garments and textiles sector. The NBSSI/SPINnet Incubator Programme will train existing and potential start-ups...