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GTP debuts ready-to-wear collection
GIPC boss, Yoofi Grant poses with Head of Retail, Jessica Okwabi at GTP,
and Marketing Director, Mary Ann Boaten
Ghana’s pioneering indigenous textile brand, GTP, has unveiled a stylish corporate ready-to-wear clothing collection at its inaugural retail store in Osu last Friday.
This strategic move is a direct response to months of invaluable customer feedback signalling GTP’s dedication to meeting the evolving needs of its discerning clientele.
This significant milestone solidifies GTP’s position as a premium, innovative, and fashion-forward brand, while enhancing convenience, style, and personalised service for its cherished customers.
The Marketing Director of Ghana Textiles Printing Company (GTP), Madam Mary Ann Boaten expressed her enthusiasm about the achievement, saying “we’ve worked diligently to craft a collection that radiates style and elegance, with the purpose of meeting the ever-evolving demands of our customers and adding value to the fabrics.”
GTP’s retail store and versatile ready-to-wear collection is the result of collaboration between GTP’s internal teams and esteemed partners like Tekura, who supplied the store’s furnishings and some of the woodwork.
As a leading textile brand in Ghana, GTP has been crafting high-quality fabrics for over five decades, with an unwavering commitment to celebrating Ghanaian culture and heritage through its products and services.
Patrons are promised a unique first-hand experience of the brand’s extensive range of quality and authentic African textiles, and alluring Ready-to-Wear collection made from exclusive GTP designed fabrics.
The brand is confident that its customers will embrace the new collection and cherish the unique shopping experience the retail store has to offer.
The double-debut event was graced by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yoofi Grant, Business Executives Marina Lamptey and Lucy Quist, Broadcaster Israel Laryea, Fashion Designer Elikem Kumordzie and Actress Sika Osei as well as other esteemed fashion enthusiasts.
GTP is the first indigenous Ghanaian textile brand launched onto the Ghanaian market in January 1966 by the late Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
By Edem Mensah Tsotorme
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Craze for x’mas shopping: Crowded markets, low patronage
Vendors of food and other wares associated with the Christmas celebration have expressed surprise at the low patronage despite the increased number of visitors to some of the major markets across the capital.
Four days to the celebration(Christmas), the markets are filled with various products ranging from food, clothing, livestock and many other stuff, but according to the vendors, patrons are doing more ‘window’ shopping.
The Spectator on visits to some of the markets in the capital, notably the Odawna, Makola, Accra Central Business District, New Town and others made similar observations as shoppers crowd them but did little in terms of purchases.
The paper also observed that majority of vendors, originally selling other wares have switched to product related to the festive season.
What it means is that there are a lot more clothes, food and vegetables, livestock and poultry, toys, firecrackers, drinks of different types and many others on display.
The markets have also stretched to the pedestrian pavement, leaving very narrow spaces for commuters to move about freely.
That, in addition to a few of the female vendors dressed in coloured attires to reflect the occasion, has heightened the euphoria, leaving the low sales as the only headache for the vendors.
Speaking with this paper, they sounded very optimistic, believing that sales would improve in the last few days to the yuletide.
According to them, there was the opportunity to sell beyond Christmas as the New Year celebration offers similar opportunity to trade the same wares.
They urged patrons to throng the markets to shop since prices were quite moderate and products affordable for all.
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Retirement service for Elder John Ackom-Asante,3 others
Retired Deputy Editor of The Spectator, Elder John Ackom-Asante, was last Sunday honoured by the Church of Pentecost Windy Hills District in Kasoa in the Central Region, with a retirement thanksgiving service, after serving for 26 year as an Elder of the church.
He was honoured with a citation and certificate of service along with three other elders who served in the capacity for various years.
Elder Ackom-Asante was baptised at the Darkuman Central Assembly in 1979 and ordained as an Elder in 1997.
The citation read “Your selfless service, zeal, willingness to relate wholeheartedly and your desire to effect change has gone a long way to shape the lives of many people in the church and the nation over the 26 years of your dedication to the service of the Lord.”
Elder Ackom- Asante held many positions at the Darkuman Central Assembly, Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Tema, serving in various capacities as youth and evangelism ministry leader and marriage counsellor.
He was the founding member of the Darkuman Christian Fellowship, a member of the Greater Accra Christian Fellowship; member of Bible Society of Ghana; founding member Obuasi Chapter Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International and founding member of New Times Corporation Christian Fellowship and Chaplain, Methodist University Tema Campus 2009- 2010.
As a professional journalist, Elder Ackom-Asante combined effectively and efficiently his duty as a member and elder of the church and the demands of his profession, with admiration from the church, kith and kin, till his retirement on December
From Alhaji Salifu Abdul-Rahaman, Kasoa
