Soft growth in North America, Europe and Brazil hurt sales at Unilever and Nestle, two of the world’s major consumer companies. But both firms said they expected to meet sales goals stated previously. Nestle reported organic growth of 2.3% in the first three months of the year, boosted by Asia and Africa. At Unilever, owner … Read more
Swans glide peacefully over green river waters in the central Croatian area of Karlovac, a tranquil spot popular with fishermen and swimmers that environmentalists fear could be devastated by hydropower projects. Croatia faces a dilemma as it produces no more than 75 percent of the electricity it needs for its 4.3 million people each year, … Read more
A leading high quality cable and conduit manufacturing company, Nexans Kabelmetal, has donated GHc5, 000 in support of Citi FM’s Easter Orphan Project. The project which seeks to support some selected orphanages in the country will come off on Easter Monday, April 17, 2017. Several companies and individuals in Ghana have so far heeded to … Read more
Producers of Rush Energy drink, Twellium Industrial Company Limited has donated some assorted products towards Citi FM’s Easter Orphan Project. The Easter Orphan Project is aimed at supporting some selected orphanages in the country and ensure thatthey receive enough supplies to last them for a whole year. The beverage producing company donated some soft and … Read more
Voltic Ghana Limited on Monday supported Citi FM’s Easter Orphan Project which has been slated for April 17, 2017. The company donated 50 cartons of Voltic Mineral water, 50 cartons of soft drinks, and 500 sachets of Voltic Cool pac water. Voltic Ghana made the donation as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility. Citi … Read more
Citi FM on Easter Monday, April 17, 2017, will be presenting the items and cash donations to some orphanages it has adopted in the country. The Easter Orphan project seeks to support the orphanages, and ensure that they receive enough supplies to last them for a whole year. Some of the items donated by PZ … Read more
Unilever, which owns some of the UK’s most famous household brands, has announced plans to sell its margarine business, including Flora and Stork. The move comes as part of a wide-ranging review at the Anglo-Dutch firm, which recently saw off a takeover bid from US food giant Kraft Heinz. Analysts have said the sell-off could … Read more
Nollywood movie star, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde recently gave a lecture at the University of Ghana Business School. The accomplished actress delivered the lecture, organised by Unilever, under the theme: “Brand Building for Global Relevance, The Omotola Story.” Omotola arrived in Ghana for the lecture just after a similar trip to Morocco. She was a speaker … Read more
Actress cum producer Yvonne Okoro may not have won any award at the recently held fifth Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards held in Nigeria but she is not ashamed of that. Having been nominated in six categories for her movie Ghana Must Go, one would have expected that she would bring home at least two … Read more
The University of Cambridge, United Kingdom’s Judge Business School has acknowledged the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), West Africa, in its new model for CSR. The Centre for CSR, one of the sub-region’s leading sustainability and corporate social responsibility, events and advocacy organisations contributed to an extensive CSR research conducted by Professor Peter Williamson, … Read more
Forget bra inserts — the newest unconventional way to apply your makeup has officially arrived. First discovered by beauty blogger Nadi (a.k.a., PopLuxe), hard boiled eggs make for surprisingly good makeup sponges. In a YouTube tutorial posted earlier this month, Nadi used an egg — shell peeled off — to blend his foundation, apply eyeshadow, … Read more
Some mobile phone dealers in Accra have threatened to shut down all Chinese mobile phone shops in Accra following what they described as an attempt by their Asian counterparts to take over the phone retail business. According to the mobile phone operators, although the country’s laws only permitted foreigners to trade in the wholesale sector, … Read more
England completed a Women’s Six Nations Grand Slam by beating a physical Ireland 34-7 at rainy Donnybrook. Amy Wilson Hardy went over in the corner as England scored from their only chance in the first half. Ireland struggled to breach England’s solid defence and were made to pay as the world champions ran in four … Read more
Today can report that, mobile phone dealers in the country are folding up their businesses as a result of the takeover of the business by Chinese nationals. Today established that Mobile Zone company which is the franchise holder of TECNO phones has signed a contract with E-Gate Development Ghana with 49 and 51% shares ownership … Read more
“We do see it as an inflection point,” Pitkethly said at the conference in Florida. Unilever (ULVR. L) (UNc.AS) is considering returning cash to shareholders, making medium-sized acquisitions and more aggressive cost cuts as part of its business review, the Financial Times reported. The Anglo-Dutch maker of Knorr soups, Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s … Read more
For better or worse, this tiny town at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains has survived the decline of US manufacturing as the home to a clutch of companies and the only baseball bat factory in the country. Last year, two-thirds of those living in Dolgeville, an isolated community 220 miles (350 kilometers) from the … Read more
By Kwesi Atta Sakyi 4th March 2017 Since the Man of God, Pastor Mensah Otabil, made his pronouncement about the ill-effects of eating fufu, the media has known no peace. For some weeks now it is fufu this, fufu that, and fufu, fufu on the news ad nauseum. Fufu has gained a grandstand media attention … Read more
Afia Ansaa Ampene, the hostess of the defunct ‘Mmaa Nkommo’ talk show on Ghana Television, has been dragged before an Accra circuit court for fraud. The accused, a pensioner popularly known as Auntie Afia, is in the dock with her son, Stephen Kwabena Osei, a trader, for allegedly conspiring to defraud and defrauding by false … Read more
Afia Ansaa Ampene, the hostess of the ‘Mmaa Nkommo’ talk show on Ghana Television, has been dragged before an Accra circuit court for fraud. The accused, a pensioner popularly known as Auntie Afia, is in the dock with her son, Stephen Kwabena Osei, a trader, for allegedly conspiring to defraud and defrauding by false pretences … Read more
On Sunday, 5th March 2017, two buses will set off from CITI FM premises in Accra with tourism enthusiasts on a road trip to discover Ghana. Dubbed the #HeritageCaravan, the Citi 97.3 organized trip shall see about one hundred people tour seven regions of Ghana in seven days, discover Ghana in a different way and … Read more