Tag: Ghana Investment Promotion Centre
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GIPC launches 2nd edition of Taste of Ghana
The Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) has launched the second edition of Taste of Ghana, purposed to showcase and celebrate Ghana’s unique culture in grand style. The launch, which took place at the Centre’s premises, served as the official outdooring for the main event dubbed ‘Taste of Ghana 2.0”, scheduled to take place on 27th…
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Yofi Grant re-elected as Regional Director for the Steering Board of WAIPA
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) represented by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Yofi Grant, has been re-elected as the Regional Director (Sub Saharan Africa) for the Steering Board of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA). The elections took place during the 25th WAIPA General Assembly and World Investment Conference, which occurred in…
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Ghana set to showcase “limitless investment possibilities’ at Dubai Expo 2020
Ghana will be participating in the largest cultural and diplomatic fair, as 192 countries converge at the World Expo 2020, which will be held in Dubai from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The country is poised to leverage this grand occasion, to showcase the immense opportunities it offers across business, culture and human…
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#CitiBusinessFestival: Be strategic to attract loans – Yofi Grant to MSMEs
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, is admonishing Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) to make themselves attractive to have easier access to funds. “There are a lot of things happening in Ghana today that are global standards, but they’ve run short because of maybe packaging or the…
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Government to introduce policies targeting investors in diaspora – Ofori-Atta
As part of efforts to increase foreign direct investment into the country, Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta, says government’s plan to raise funds from the diaspora for the development of the country is on course. He says the plan will facilitate government’s capital expenditure investments and seek to accelerate economic growth. Speaking on the sidelines…
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Foreign Direct Investments increase by over 400% in 2020 first half
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) increased by over four hundred percent for the first half of 2020, figures from the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has shown. The Foreign Direct Investments increased from US$627.52 million in the first half of 2020 compared to the FDI value of US$123.26 million recorded within the same period last year.…
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Potential investors cancel trips to Ghana over COVID-19 pandemic – GIPC
The CEO of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, says his outfit has started recording cancellations of scheduled meetings by potential investors due to growing concerns about the increasing number of Coronavirus infections across the world. Currently, the disease has killed more than 7,000 people globally, out of over 180,000 cases. Speaking about…
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GIPC woos Air Malta to begin operations in Ghana by 2nd quarter of 2020
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), says it is working to have Air Malta, Malta’s national carrier, to begin operations to Ghana by the end of the 2nd quarter of this year. This will make Ghana the first destination of the Airline in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, the airline which has its hub at the Malta…
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Access to EU market critical despite efforts to deepen intra-African trade – GIPC
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), has charged Ghanaian businesses to leverage the strategic position of Malta, in their quest to gain access to the European Market. According to the CEO of the GIPC, Yofi Grant, Europe will continue to be a significant trading destination for Ghana even as calls for increased intra-Africa trade are…
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Former GIPC boss George Aboagye passes on
George Aboagye, a former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), has died at the Cape Coast Regional Hospital in the Central Region following a short illness. He served as the CEO of the nation’s investment promotion agency under the Mills’ administration between 2009 and 2012. He was to have turned 70…