NEW YORK, US: After an upbeat start to the year with two consecutive quarters of increases in optimism, global consumer confidence fell three points in September to an Index of 90 as consumers' hopes for a full economic recovery this year fades in most parts of the world, according to the latest edition of the Nielsen
Global Consumer Confidence Index.
27 Oct 2010 06:22
The Parts Trader website, an online automotive directory in the US and Europe has launched in Ghana making available its processing server to customers and car parts suppliers in Africa
4 Oct 2010 10:46The fully tenanted Princess Crossing Mall, situated in Ondekkers Road, Roodepoort, has been sold for close to R300 million to a West African investor - via a private property fund based in the Western Cape.
20 Aug 2010 08:39
Game Stores has come a long way since it opened its first store in Durban in 1970 in cramped premises in the city's CBD, ringing up sales of R78 000 in its first month of trading. Its founders believed that shopping had become a tedious and boring pastime. They wanted to create a fun shopping environment and so conceptualised retailing as a game. The signature bright pink prevails to this day.
19 Jul 2010 08:43JOHANNESBURG: APRM Capital and a grouping of Ghanaian investors plan to, in March 2010, launch APRM Ashanti Capital Money Transfers, a money transfer facility allowing Ghanaians living in South Africa a better method of sending money home.
25 Jan 2010 11:11ACCRA: When you meet Naomi Aframea, 60, in the streets of Accra, you could take her for any other Ghanaian woman going about her business. But step into her stall at Agbobloshie Market, one of the capital's satellite markets, and amidst stacks of the wooden crates used to ship tomatoes, you sense her power.
8 Jul 2009 15:39[Francis Kokutse] ACCRA: It looks like someone is not telling it as it is as far as meeting Ghana's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on water supply is concerned.
11 May 2009 12:15 
ACCRA: With cross-border price-undercutting, mounting debt and a lack of buyers, many tomato farmers in Ghana's Upper East Region are turning to suicide.
20 Apr 2009 10:23A programme dubbed: ‘National Services Export Strategy', has been launched with the aim of exporting consultancy services, medical tourism, travel and leisure, education and other non-tangible and invisible services provided by Ghanaians abroad.
18 Nov 2008 11:23The Ghanaian government, backed by the World Bank, is expanding a cash handout programme to help families hit hardest by global food price hikes. But some local development experts question whether the approach has lasting benefits.
30 Oct 2008 06:01Olu Sawyerr, partner and leader, financial services industry, Deloitte West and Central Africa, has told Ghanaian banks that they risk possible extinction if they do not transform themselves into big players in the industry.
13 Oct 2008 11:05The Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC) and the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI) of the Netherlands have signed a pact to boost non-traditional exports to countries in the European Union.
12 Feb 2008 06:29The United States government plans to boost its trade links with Ghana and help the nation improve its education system, under the US President's Special Initiative on Educational Programmes.
22 Jan 2008 14:01African leaders met recently in Accra for a three-day summit where they promoted the idea of a “Unitary Government for Africa”.
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