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Made-in-Ghana goods get boost

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  • Sam 10 years ago

    HOME MADE-GOOD
    This is good news but they must not limit themselves to ghanaian customers alone. Good luck to Mr President's campaign.

  • OZA 10 years ago

    Very Good! This is living by example. If the government acts this way, the people will follow. The company will boost up sales and therefore employ more Ghanaians. We have depended on foreign goods for tooooo long!

  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Keep it up DIHOC and extend your reach to agric, roads and bridges and super medical hospitals and manufacturing of medicine.
    THE SKY IS YOUR ONLY LIMIT, KEEP IT UP.

  • ONIPANUA 10 years ago

    The government must make it mandatory for all state agencies to buy from the Kumasi Shoe Factory instead of importing from outside the very items it produces.

  • Atta Kofi(france) 10 years ago

    Why not all uniforms of institutions and companies including School uniformes be of boosters and die or batik or cloth design wear,
    Instead of européen style of dressing which had dominated our people for a long tim ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    Cow hides consumptions must be strongly discouraged so the 60,000 us dollars pumped into both the Argentina and Indian economies for every 4,000 pairs of boots manufactured.

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago

    The revival of the Kumasi Shoe Factory shows the extent to which the Afrifa and Busia/CIA coup of 1966 damaged the economic progress of Ghana.At full capacity the shoe factory will give jobs to 800 ghanaians,pay taxes into go ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    That's why we need to re educate our folks about the lies and the conspiracy to make us slaves for the comfort of others of which our own ppl knowingly and unknowingly become accomplices.

  • Ex Cpl.,Tema 10 years ago

    GOOD NEWS, BUT WE SHOULD BE INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE. NEW INNOVATION IN DESIGN, QUALITY OF MATERIALS AND GOOD FINISHING IS THE KEY TO BREAK BARRIERS IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY. KUDOS DIHOC! LONG LIVE BETTER GHANA AGENDA, LON ...
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  • Ghanaian 10 years ago

    Now that things are turning around, u don't see the foolish ones commenting again. God help President Mahama and Ghana to succeed. Isha Allah!!!!

  • Jay 10 years ago

    Goods news. Good start, but we must reduce duty for their imported raw materials. If EPA want 75% duty free why not our local Manufacturers.

    Look at this statement and I quote.
    " we spend about $60,000, excluding shippin ...
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  • HAZOR 10 years ago

    Am not impress at all about the shoe company abandon locally made leathers and machines and import them from overseas.Am shock that the president is trying to promote made in Ghana goods to create jobs and develop both talent ...
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  • vic 10 years ago

    good only one thing, can't we produce leather in ghana

  • Jay 10 years ago

    may be you forgot we eat our leather. Have you heard or seen coat on the waakye or fufu or etc. Lets all stop eating our leather shall we?

  • ABU 10 years ago

    Go international by targetting the African markets,and not only the local Ghanaian market.

  • kojo 10 years ago

    Thank God for that. This is what I have always been preaching about long time ago. But for me the most important issue is to encourage indigenousity by preserving and upholding our culture and identity. we should embrace and ...
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  • OHENEBA -paris FRANCE 10 years ago

    Mind you GHANA is heading towards signing the EPA and the results will by all means not be the same in the long run.

  • kosa 10 years ago

    Thanks exactly what I was thinking

  • mozko 10 years ago

    I'm very happy for this factory at last. at least we'll have one time sleeping giant waking up again giving people something for their pockets
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  • akyekyedie 10 years ago

    Osagyefo is today smiling in his grave