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Trade Minister Must Get Rid of Foreign Retailers – Traders

Getting rid of foreign retailers and fulfilling promise to cut down VAT to 3 percent from the 17.5 percent, should be...

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Trade Minister Must Get Rid of Foreign Retailers – Traders

Getting rid of foreign retailers and fulfilling promise to cut down VAT to 3 percent from the 17.5 percent, should be...

Business

We Will Lay Off Workers If Nothing Changes – Diamond Cement Warns

Diamond Cement has disclosed to Citi Business News it is still considering its decision to lay off fifty percent of the...

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We Will Lay Off Workers If …

Diamond Cement has disclosed to Citi Business News it is still considering its decision to lay off fifty percent of the...

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Local Cement Manufacturers Express More Concern Over Foreign Competition

Over the past couple of months, local cement manufacturers in the nation have greatly expressed concern over unfair...

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Local Cement Producers Operations Stifled By Competition

Local cement producers in the country have in the past months complained bitterly to government over unfair competition...

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Diamond Cement Lays Off Staff Over Unfair Competition

Diamond Cement has served notice it will lay off fifty percent of its staff due to the inability of the company to...

Business

Private Sector Must Own Exim Bank

The Minister for Finance, Mr. Seth Terkper has urged the private sector to brace itself up to own Ghana’s Export and...

Business

Cement War Has Helped Shatter Monopoly

An important development in our cement industry has been the introduction by government of price deregulation, to...

Business

Trade Minister Defends Cement Imports From China

Trade and Industry Minister, Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah has clarified that the cement regulation law was set up to regulate...

Business

Africa Must Improve Domestic Rice Production – Kufuor

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has reiterated the need for African countries to implement the right policy to...

Business

Rice Import Costs Ghana US$500m Annually

Ghana is said to lose over 500million dollars every year through the importation of foreign rice. This action has posed...

Business

Use of Made-In-Ghana Logo To Attract Charges

The Trade Ministry has tabled a proposal before Parliament seeking approval to charge businesses for the use of the...

Business

UK Targets ‘record-High’ Trade With Ghana By 2020

As it sheds its European Union membership, the UK is in a frantic search for options that will brace its economy...

Business

Spio Garbrah Stabs Cement Producers

Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade & Industry, is said to be busily issuing cement licences to Chinese importers to...

Business

GUTA Castigates Government Over Foreign Invasion of Retail Trade

The Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) has castigated government for not showing enough commitment to fighting...

Profiles

Complete Biography & Profile of Alan John Kojo Kyerematen, Former Minister for Trade & PSI

Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen (popularly called Alan Cash) is a Ghanaian politician, a corporate executive, a diplomat...

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Ban on Importation of Cement Starts Friday, August 5

Importation of cement to Ghana will be seen as an illegitimate venture following the maturation of the Import and...