Articles from the ‘Business’ category
Posted by Contributor on April 15, 2009 at 4:12 pm in Business
By Alfred Adams, Takoradi – Ghanaian Chronicle The Takoradi Court would on the 29th of this month begin hearing a pathetic story of how one Isaac Atta Bennin was unprofessionally dismissed by management of Dupaul Wood Treatment Plant (DWTP), a Takoradi based wood treatment firm, after 22 years of loyal service. Atta Bennin [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:42 pm in Business
A GNA feature by Christian Akorlie One of the most laudable benefits showing from the recent redenomination of the Cedi has been the drastic cut in the sheer volumes of physical cash which Ghanaians were obliged to tug about for payment for goods and services in their day-to-day affairs. Until July 2007, a simple transaction [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:15 pm in Business
Article By: Michele Lupini – Cars in Action Jacques Odendal is a self-confessed BMW nut, who simply had to have the best M3 on the block. An ordinary M3 just wasn’t enough for our Jacques — he made double sure that just any old M3 would never hold a candle to his car… First [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:52 pm in Business
Daniel Nonor On the inter-bank market, the cedi regained some of its integrity when it managed an appreciation against its peers. It climbed by 1.17% against the euro, representing an addition of 2.15 pesewas. The local currency was trading between GH¢1.79p and GH¢1.84p per one euro. Consequently, the drop in the exchange rate led [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:37 am in Business
Dr Boeh-Ocansey THE PRIVATE Enterprises Foundation (PEF) has taken serious exception to the Bank of Ghana’s upward revision of its prime rate recently as a means of fighting inflation. According to Dr Boeh-Ocansey, Executive Director of PEF, in an interview with BUSINESS GUIDE, BoG’s prime rate increase and its cascading effects on the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:37 am in Business
HPI, LLC, a market leader in the supply of turbine control solutions and turnkey electric power plants, has been awarded a project to design and build a 145 MW power plant in Ghana for the Volta River Authority. The prime contractor for the project is the Canadian Government’s Economic Development Corporation ministry. This project represents [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:35 am in Business
By Briana Bishop Every 14 seconds, somewhere around the world, a child is orphaned by AIDS. During University of Virginia’s winter break junior Meaghan McGrath boarded a plane with soap, latex gloves and other medical supplies and headed to Ghana. She was participating in Alternative Winter Break by going to an AIDS orphanage to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:33 am in Business
Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr. / Bloomberg Alekperov speaking on Monday in an interview in which he urged Russia to issue more licenses domestically. 1LUKoil plans to drill three deep-water exploration wells in Africa in the next year as it urges the Russian state to offer more licenses domestically, CEO Vagit Alekperov said in an interview, [...]
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