Blue Skies have introduced a colourful new range of branded fresh-cut fruit in Carrefour in France. The ‘Naturel et Bon’range is available across a variety of lines including pineapple, mango, coconut, pomegranate and melon. The range is supported by some new point of sale material including branded shelf edge signs […]
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Download our March Newsletter
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. You can download it from: https://blueskies.com/newsletter/march2019.pdf In this month’s newsletter: Blue Skies launches ice lollies made with fresh fruit The Foundation starts work on a new classroom block Our interim sustainability report is published Pelican News is a […]
Construction starts on new Classroom Block
A sod cutting ceremony was recently held in Ghana to officially mark the start of a new three classroom block for a Primary School at the village of Nsumia, which is located just a few miles from the Blue Skies factory. Work is already progressing and construction is expected to […]
Blue Skies launch Ice Lollies made with Fresh Fruit
This month marks a huge step for the Blue Skies brand, with the launch of a new range of refreshingly natural Ice Lollies made in Ghana using our fresh fruit. The range is available in two packs: Mango Medley and Tropical Trio. They can be purchased from Tesco in the […]
Blue Skies holds first Conference in France
This month we held our first Blue Skies Conference in France at Excess International, our official sponsor for the event. We are very grateful to Excess for allowing us to use their meeting rooms and providing us with a site tour and food and beverages for our conference. The aim […]
Blue Skies hosts launch of Dutch grower financing programme
Blue Skies Ghana hosted the launch of a new Exporter-Outgrower financial initiative as part of the HortiFresh programme which is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Accra. The initiative aims to improve access-to-finance for smallholder farmers and export companies in the fruit and vegetable sector. […]
Northampton University Students pitch their ideas to Blue Skies
Six groups of students pitched their ideas to a panel of judges for potential future products for Blue Skies. The event, called the FBL (Faculty of Business and Law) Challenge was devised by the University of Northampton in partnership with Blue Skies. Representing Blue Skies were Group Technical Manager, Stephan […]
2018 Interim Sustainability Report is published
Blue Skies have published its interim Sustainability Report ‘Making Fruit Happy. The report provides an overview of the businesses approach to sustainability and the impact that the company had in 2018. A more detailed 2018/2019 report will be published later in the year. You can download the report from: https://blueskies.com/global/2018blueprint.pdf
Blue Skies partners University of Northampton to find the Future of Fruit
Students from the University of Northampton’s Faculty for Business and Law (FBL) are to pitch their ideas for products that could help a locally based fruit business meet the needs of the future. The FBL Challenge has been devised by the University in partnership with Northamptonshire based fruit company, Blue […]
Project to cut plastics wins Blueprint Award
Congratulations to Jolien Janse has won the overall prize in our 2018 Blueprint Awards. Jolien spearheaded an initiative on behalf of our Dutch team to remove all plastic sporks from their products, thereby saving over twenty four tons of plastics each year. The initiative received the most number of votes […]