In the sweet world of chocolate, it’s seen as a club wielded by the OPEC of confections -- a tool of a faraway cartel that artificially inflates the price of precious cocoa. In Ivory Coast and Ghana, where most of the world’s cocoa is actually grown, it is viewed as...
The Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG) has held its maiden insurance industry awards at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra last week. CIIG proved to be a super organiser when it held the maiden edition of the award ceremony, which they have long wanted to do over the past...
President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been declared the President-elect of the Republic of Ghana in a peaceful but rather fiercely contested general election. Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, Dr. Jean Mensa, by her constitutional mandate, declared the incumbent yesterday evening. The 2020 general election will go down...
Private pension funds have maintained their strong growth over the years - reaching a record high of GH¢17.3billion in 2019 from GH¢13-billion in the previous year, exactly a decade on since introduction of the three-tier pension system. The impressive growth of private pension funds over the years, according to the...
Professionalism and ethical conduct are prerequisite for the development of every field of business or venture. Hence, the need to execute tasks in accordance with acceptable code of ethics. Players in the book publishing industry should be encouraged to conform to any laid-down code of ethics. Book publishing practitioners...
...Salutation to Wright Brothers and Fellow "Aero Dare devils" Today marks another milestone in the historical exploration of global aviation, which is worth acknowledging as it marks its 117th birthday. The success of the historical evolution in the aviation industry could be attributed to the "Aero Dare devils" who through uncalculated...
Records further loss of US$4.3m in 2019 Shareholders still awaiting dividends after many years Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) Limited hopes to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to turn around the ill-fortunes which have beset the company for many years - leading to the...
This year, in spite of the global pandemic, the Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art has held a successful fifth season of the eponymous prize, bringing to the fore compelling creativity and storytelling like never seen before with 266 applications from 14 West African countries. The KPrize is a bi-annual art...
Seven Inc, an e-commerce startup, will raise and invest about US$10 million between 2021 – 2026 in Ghana’s tech space, an official has disclosed. In an exclusive interview with Vincent Djokoto, Managing Director of Seven Inc, he told the Business & Financial Times that the startup seeks to partner with...
The 2020 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) has once again ranked Uganda (39.6%), Botswana (38.5%) and Ghana (36.5%) as the world’s three leading economies having the most women business owners. The Index’s benchmark indicator is calculated as a percentage of total businesses owners, and all three countries have...