I become very excited when I come across success stories of businesses in Africa. Blue Skies a Ghanian Fruit packager, that pre-packes fruit salads and juices for export to Europe was featured in BBC yesterday. In a coverage titled “Ghana’s juicy economic lesson“, Blue Skies was said to employ about 2,000 workers  made a whooping $20m (£15m) last year.

Such a success story not only re-assures African businesses their potential in Agricultural type of businesses, but inspires them on how they can create employment opportunities in the continent.

An Interesting thing to note is that Blue Skies is currently exploring the Ghanian market because sales have been affected by the economic crisies and suprisingly their sales are catching up locally.

According to Kennedy Afful the Finance Manager:

“The local market has grabbed our juice in such a fantastic manner,” said Kennedy Afful, who looks a little more cheery than when he was discussing the falling exports

“In March last year we were taking in just 200 cedis ($145; £105) a week from the juice sold in Ghana. But last week we took $7 000 from local sales and we anticipate by end of year we will reach $14,000 a week.”

They have a well designed website with lots of information about their products and market too. You can visit their website at
Blue Skies