AmCham Ghana Holds Luncheon Meeting With The Mayor Of Houston And Trade Delegation

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, in partnership with the Ghana-Houston Chamber of Commerce, on Monday, July 24, 2023, held a luncheon meeting with the visiting mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Hon. Kobina T. Hammond, Chamber members and the 30-member business delegation from Houston to explore business opportunities to expand the existing trade relations between the U.S. city and Ghana.

The event, which was held under the theme, Developing the Ghana – Houston Partnership for Economic Growth, featured remarks from the Minister of Trade and Industry and Mayor of Houston, and afforded members the opportunity to interact with business leaders from the U.S. to establish new business relations to build on the existing $293 million trade between Ghana and the city of Houston.

Highlighting the essence of a mutually beneficial partnership, Mayor Turner emphasized that the envisioned trade engagement should stand as a paradigm of reciprocity, with both sides reaping mutual benefits. Echoing a sentiment of shared prosperity, he noted the need to establish enduring relationships that transcend short-term gains.

The Mayor shared his vision to explore collaboration in the domain of tourism. Recognizing the growing influx of American visitors to Ghana, he underscored the prospects of this burgeoning sector.

The Minister of Trade, during his remarks, touted Ghana’s peaceful political climate as a conducive environment for business to thrive, adding that “we have the platform, so we invite all investors to come and invest here.

“We in Ghana pride ourselves on being the best that Africa can put on exhibition, we have the best ambiance to do business, the human resource capacity, and appropriate legislature, and we have put together the best that any investor will be happy to have,” the minister added.

Houston has a GDP of $462 billion and stands poised to capitalize on Ghana’s growing economy for mutual benefits. This luncheon marked a pivotal moment in charting a new trajectory of growth and prosperity.

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Allstar Insurance Brokers Is Silver Sponsor Of The 2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. Commercial Service are pleased to announce Allstar Insurance Brokers as a #SilverSponsor of the 2023 U.S. Ghana Business Expo.

Scheduled for August 10 – 11, 2023, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relations for Growth and Prosperity, the U.S. – Ghana Business Expo aims to provide a platform for fostering bilateral trade collaborations and economic growth between the United States and Ghana. It will bring together key industry stakeholders, entrepreneurs, government officials, and business leaders from both nations to explore opportunities, exchange ideas, and forge strategic partnerships.

The two-day event will also provide an overview of the current trade relations between the United States and Ghana, highlight success stories, identify growth areas, and outline strategies for fostering further collaboration with integrated business-to-business meetings between Ghanaian and U.S. companies.

 

Allstar Insurance Brokers has a unique strategy of providing bespoke services to individuals, corporates, affinity groups, and SMEs. With experienced underwriters and industry-seasoned insurance professionals; Allstar Brokers has access to all insurers in Ghana, and several international partners, allowing risk to be reviewed and built from the ground up.

Contrived by the founder – Peter Osei Duah, the foundation of Allstar Insurance Brokers was etched on a background of an inventive style of Insurance broking. Its formation on 15th April 2014, reconciled the conventional broking practice with the finesse of a modern approach of partnering insurance companies in developing new and innovative products. Core to our engagements with the insuring public is a delightful quality customer service experience.

We aim to look out for the interest of our clients and to ensure that policyholders get the cover they need. That’s what we are doing, ensuring that you get the cover you need.

Allstar Brokers can tailor benefits to protect your company and your employees, including burglary insurance, cash-in-transit, goods-in-transit, public liability, bankers indemnity, advance mobilization, customs bond, assets all risks, combined fire package, fleet motor vehicle, group life, group medical, international group medical, group personal accident, and critical illness insurance, key man insurance, shareholders protection insurance, medical expenses, evacuation & repatriation, welfare insurance schemes, and many variations thereof. Learn more…

 

 

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Cargill Is Silver Sponsor Of The 2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. Commercial Service are pleased to announce Cargill as a #SilverSponsor of the 2023 U.S. Ghana Business Expo.

Scheduled for August 10 – 11, 2023, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relations for Growth and Prosperity, the U.S. – Ghana Business Expo aims to provide a platform for fostering bilateral trade collaborations and economic growth between the United States and Ghana. It will bring together key industry stakeholders, entrepreneurs, government officials, and business leaders from both nations to explore opportunities, exchange ideas, and forge strategic partnerships.

The two-day event will also provide an overview of the current trade relations between the United States and Ghana, highlight success stories, identify growth areas, and outline strategies for fostering further collaboration with integrated business-to-business meetings between Ghanaian and U.S. companies.

 

Cargill has been sourcing cocoa from Ghana for over 40 years and in 2008, opened its state-of-the-art cocoa processing facility in Tema. Today the company has around 240 employees processing cocoa products to service food and confectionary customers locally and around the world. In 2016 Cargill added a Licensed Buying Company (LBC) to its Ghanaian footprint. The LBC operations bring innovative ways to trade with our farmers, emphasizing our sustainability and traceability efforts.

Cargill made a $3.2 million investment into sustainability programming with partners CARE and the International Cocoa Initiative. Cargill also builds new schools and school infrastructure.

Cargill works alongside farmers, producers, manufacturers, retailers, governments, and other organizations to fulfill their purpose to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

From small family farms to global shipping lanes, Cargill works every day to implement new sustainable practices to reduce our impact on the planet and protect people.

Throughout our long history, we have seen agriculture be part of the solution to the world’s most urgent challenges. We know that we must address climate change and conserve water and forests while meeting the rising demand for food. These are complex challenges, but we have overcome many obstacles to keep our food system resilient and we will continue. We feel a deep responsibility to protect the planet and its people, to ensure a cleaner, safer future for generations to come. Learn more…

 

 

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Kosmos Energy Is Gold Sponsor Of The 2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. Commercial Service are pleased to announce Kosmos Energy as the #GoldSponsor of the 2023 U.S. Ghana Business Expo.

Scheduled for August 10th – 11th, 2023, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relations for Growth and Prosperity, the U.S. – Ghana Business Expo will also feature high-level B2B Meetings, Panel Discussions on pertinent issues, and Keynote Addresses from high-level Ghanaian Government Officials, the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, the Delegation from the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as Corporate Executives and Heads of State Institutions.

The two-day event will bring together players from several industries including, Oil & Gas, Food and Beverages, Tax, Audit and Legal Advisory, Housing, Aviation, Manufacturing, IT, Financial Payment Solutions, and Construction.

 

Kosmos Energy is a leading deepwater exploration and production company focused on meeting the world’s growing demand for energy. Our assets include oil production and exploration in proven basins offshore Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as a world-class gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal.

We aim to create value for our stakeholders by maximizing the value of our producing assets and adding new resources through infrastructure-led and play-extending exploration in the proven basins where we operate.

Kosmos searches for every opportunity to increase production and grow cash flow. We work with our partners on facilities and surface changes, lift optimizations, well re-completions, water injection, and infill and step-out drilling.

Kosmos focuses on infrastructure-led and play-extending exploration in proven basins — such as the Gulf of Mexico and Rio Muni basin offshore Equatorial Guinea — where discoveries can be tied back to existing production facilities more quickly, at lower cost, and with a lower overall carbon intensity.

Our approach to development is designed to deliver first production on an accelerated timeline, leverage early learnings to improve future outcomes and maximize returns. In certain circumstances, we believe a phased approach can be employed to optimize full-field development. This helps to minimize upfront capital costs, reducing execution risks through smaller initial infrastructure requirements, and enabling cash flow from the initial phases of production to fund a portion of capital costs for subsequent phases. Learn More

 

 

 

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Delta Air Lines Is Headline Sponsor Of The 2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. Commercial Service are pleased to announce Delta Air Lines as #HeadlineSponsor of the 2023 U.S. Ghana Business Expo.

Scheduled for August 10th – 11th, 2023, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relation for Growth and Prosperity, the U.S. – Ghana Business Expo will also feature high-level B2B Meetings, Panel Discussions on pertinent issues, and Keynote Addresses from high-level Ghanaian Government Officials, the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, the Delegation from the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as Corporate Executives and Heads of State Institutions.

The two-day event will bring together players from several industries including, Oil & Gas, Food and Beverages, Tax, Audit and Legal Advisory, Housing, Aviation, Manufacturing, IT, Financial Payment Solutions, and Construction.

 

 

 

As a purpose-driven brand, we connect people to opportunities while expanding the understanding of our planet and the people within it. Both in the air and on the ground, we are focused on lowering our carbon footprint, furthering an equitable work environment that values diversity and inclusion, and living these values in the communities where we live, work, and serve.

Our purpose is beyond flight. We have set clear goals of actively seeking diversity, boldly pursuing equity, and consciously promoting inclusion. In 2020, Delta committed to equity and being an anti-racist, anti-discrimination organization. To achieve this goal, we are removing barriers, building equitable systems, and being transparent about our progress.

As a global airline, we connect with the communities where our employees live, work, and serve. Through strategic nonprofits in these communities, we foster meaningful partnerships to help drive change by focusing our resources on the environment, equity, and education.

With its unsurpassed global network, Delta, its Delta Connection® carriers, and Partner Airlines offer service to more than 1,000 destinations in over 60 countries on six continents. Everything we do creates a more connected world. That’s why nearly 200 million travelers fly up to 275 destinations in 50 countries, with up to 4,000 daily departures. Learn more…

 

 

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Avis Ghana Sponsors 2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. Commercial Service are pleased to announce Avis Ghana as a #SilverSponsor of the 2023 U.S. Ghana Business Expo.

Scheduled for August 10th – 11th, 2023, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relation for Growth and Prosperity, the U.S. – Ghana Business Expo will also feature high-level B2B Meetings, Panel Discussions on pertinent issues, and Keynote Addresses from high-level Ghanaian Government Officials, the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, the Delegation from the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as Corporate Executives and Heads of State Institutions.

The two-day event will bring together players from several industries including, Oil & Gas, Food and Beverages, Tax, Audit and Legal Advisory, Housing, Aviation, Manufacturing, IT, Financial Payment Solutions, and Construction.

 

 

 

Avis Rent A Car, Ghana (Avis Ghana) has been a licensee of Avis Europe since 2000. Avis Ghana offers a wide range of transportation services from our head office located in Labone. Our services range from vehicle rental/leasing, corporate transportation, airport transfers, shuttle services, and travel services. We operate a fleet of over 50 vehicles which include sedans, 4x4s, minibusses, luxury vehicles, and coaches. Our transportation services cover all of Ghana and eight (8) West African Countries.

Over the years, Avis Ghana has been the preferred provider of transportation services for most foreign missions, multi-national corporations, and local Institutions. We have provided transportation for three (3) U.S. Presidential visits (including President Obama), the Queen of England, and the Heads of State of Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and India. Avis Ghana has 40% of the vehicle rental and leasing market share in Corporate Ghana.

Avis Ghana consistently demonstrates a commitment to excellent customer service and believes your organization will benefit from a partnership with us. Our commitment is evidenced by the numerous awards the company has received over the years and the company’s prestigious list of loyal clients. The company has the broadest destination knowledge in our local transportation industry. With Avis Ghana, you can expect seamless service every time. Learn More…

 

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Leveraging Afreximbank Programs To Expand U.S. Trade And Investment With Africa

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, Prosper Africa, and the Corporate Council on Africa on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, hosted an event on Leveraging Afreximbank Programs to Expand U.S. Trade and Investment with Africa on the sidelines of the Afreximbank Annual General Meeting in Accra.

This session highlighted opportunities for American firms to get more involved in investment and trade with Africa’s premier trade finance institution. It featured Senior Afreximbank officials who shared insight into the Bank’s policies to support priority projects in transportation, manufacturing, health care, and agribusiness.

The Afreximbank was established as the trade finance bank for Africa to support the industrialization of member countries. The Bank provides guarantees, trade information, and advisory and offers support to companies in adopting appropriate industrial policies to optimize operations as they believe industrialization does not involve just creating a project or building the structure. “It also involves having the right policies to attract and enable that investment to grow and enable us to trade amongst ourselves. So we also provide policy solutions, and then we provide credit facilities financing, and we also provide training and market access,” a bank official added.

The Bank also prioritizes the African diaspora and is willing to assist and fund them to establish and do business in critical sectors to spur growth on the continent. Afreximbank provides support in debt financing and product support for crucial investments.

The event provided an opportunity for senior government and corporate officials to discuss the most vital programs affecting economic and commercial development on the continent.

 

Call For Sponsorship and Exhibitors | 2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. Commercial Service will be pleased to have you on board as a partner and a sponsor of the 2023 U.S. Ghana Business Expo.Scheduled for August 10th – 11th, 2023, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relation for Growth and Prosperity, the U.S. – Ghana Business Expo will also feature high-level B2B Meetings, Panel Discussions on pertinent issues, and Keynote Addresses from high-level Ghanaian Government Officials, the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, the Delegation from the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as Corporate Executives and Heads of State Institutions.The two-day event will bring together players from several industries including, Oil & Gas, Food and Beverages, Tax, Audit and Legal Advisory, Housing, Aviation, Manufacturing, IT, Financial Payment Solutions, and Construction.For sponsorship and further inquiries, kindly contact Jane Okyere-Aduachie at  0244311301/ externalrelations@amchamghana.org.

2023 U.S. – Ghana Business Expo Scheduled For August 10th – 11th

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Ghana and the U.S. Commercial Service, is scheduled to host the maiden U.S. – Ghana Business Expo at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra from Thursday, August 10 to Friday, August 11, 2023.

To be held under the theme; Leveraging U.S. – Ghana Trade Relation for Growth and Prosperity, the two days will bring together players from several industries including, Oil & Gas, Food and Beverages, Tax, Audit and Legal Advisory, Housing, IT, Financial Payment Solutions, manufacturing, and Construction.

 

For Sponsorship And Further Inquiries:

Contact Jane at 0244311301/ externalrelations@amchamghana.org

AmCham Ghana Attends The 2023 Realtors Legislative Meetings In DC

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, on May 6 to 11, 2023, joined our member, the Ghana Real Estate Professionals Association, to attend the 2023 Realtors Legislative Meetings in Washington D.C.

This annual event hosts over 100 exhibitors and several activities to advance the real estate industry and influence public policy. This event also attracts Federal Political Coordinators (FPCs) and other politically active members who communicate with congressional representatives on Capitol Hill.

Through the efforts of the Chamber and our member company GREPA, Ghana’s Minister of State at the Presidency, Hon. Dr. Freda Prempeh, shared the country’s perspective in advising the interest of realtors to address prevailing housing challenges during theGlobal Business & Alliances Committee meeting.

During her remarks, the minister noted that Ghana stands ready to engage potential investors to take advantage of the country’s ever-increasing opportunities in the promising real estate industry. “Under the broad vision of the President’s Private Public Partnership initiative on Affordable Housing Delivery in Ghana, we have engaged and brought together major stakeholders in the construction industry that are interested in improving housing opportunities for residents of Ghana and, by extension, the West African Sub-region,” she added.

The Chamber also joined the International Real Estate Federation USA, for their Installation Dinner on the sidelines of the 2023 REALTORS® Legislative Meeting.