A.T. COOKE FRUITS, a fruit juice production company has opened its first mini-factory at Pedu, Cape Coast to provide quality fruit drinks to the people of the Central Region and neighbouring regions.
This is the first branch to be opened in Cape Coast to kick start production of top-quality pineapple juice with no color, additives, and water in its preparation.
The main factory to be opened in Yamoransa in the Central Region in March 2023 will also produce refined akpeteshie produced from industrial sugarcane together with the pineapple juice production which will employ more than one thousand workers.
The Chief Executive Officer of A.T Cooke Fruits, Mr. Ambrose Thomson Cooke, indicated that his main motive for this initiative is to help reduce unemployment in the region and in the country at large.
He emphasized saying “The motive behind is to create jobs with very little capital by using machinery available in the country to do a huge part of the production and all other production done by workers…I am not doing this for profit and we can create plenty of jobs with very little income. That’s my reason; just to create jobs will make me happy and it will be my legacy.”
He notes that the main factory will be built on a 29-acre land after which it will run a 12-lines production with machinery produced in Ghana and employ about 500 workers.
On his part, the Paramount Chief of Cape Coast, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II called on entrepreneurs and industrialists in the country to invest and set up industries in the region to employ the potential working force.
This he said will to a large extent help solve the problem of unemployment in the Region.
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Source: Richard Osei Korankye & Edith Odum/ATLFMNEWS
