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Ghana's juicy economic lesson
By Will Ross
BBC News, Ghana

Worker packing bottles of Blue Skies fruit juice, Ghana
After sales to Europe slumped, Blue Skies found new customers at home

What do you do when your buyers in Europe start cutting their orders?

Target the local market.

That is the strategy being used by Blue Skies - which exports pre-packed fruit salads and juices to Europe but has now realised their products can also tickle the taste buds of Ghana's more affluent customers.

Most businesses in Ghana have been relatively unscathed by the global economic downturn. Despite the warnings that the storm is approaching, there are few visible signs yet.

Poverty is still rife but that cannot be pinned on the recent global crisis.


 

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