Small businesses, especially those in the information technology sector, have expressed worry and discontent over what they consider to be the high cost of using the Internet and its associated poor quality of service. In an interview with the B&FT some of the businesses, which are of different sizes, shared...
The North Gonja District Assembly has taken steps to find more markets for smocks woven in the area by tasking the country’s High Commissioners and Ambassadors to promote smocks in their countries of assignment. To this end, the Assembly has supplied a few smocks to some of the High Commissioners...
Isaac Tweneboah-Koduah, a lecturer at the Garden City University, has advised business entrepreneurs to endeavour to build the financial and managerial capacity of their workers. He said that would enable them to easily access loans from banks and micro-credit institutions. He said research showed that financial institutions in the country are...
Small businesses at the regional and district levels are expected to benefit from a GH₵38m facility to be advanced by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) this year. This is aimed at enabling prospective beneficiaries to shore-up their businesses as part of the Centre’s programme of activities for the...
To those who have their own reservations about made in Ghana shoes, thinking they are not of high quality, or do not have a fine finishing, are terribly wrong. Well, they may be pardoned for such poor judgement, at least for one reason—they have not yet seen the amazing...
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....