Association of Alcohol Manufacturers and Importers (AAMI) will hold an Emergency Meeting on Thursday, July 24th, 2009. The time will be from 11:30 AM -12:30PM at the Golden Tulip Hotel.
The Meeting would be held at the Faanaa Hut, near the pool. Please endeavour to attend or send your able representative:
AGENDA:
1. Tackling Government’s 5% levy on alcoholic products
2. Alcohol Policy Update
3. Increased Visibility for AAMI activities to make us public friendly
4. Updates on public activities
5. Revised dues for AAMI
6 AOB
Please let us endeavour to attend this emergency meeting!!!

The Association of Alcohol Manufacturers and Importers (AAMI) has learnt with utter dismay Parliament’s speedy and singlehandness in passing a bill to impose a five percent National Stabilization Levy on selected business entities in the country.
While no government can be faulted for wanting to achieve such objectives as technical progress, incentives, education, healthcare and infrastructural development, such objectives must be approached with all the circumspection needed in order not to throw an otherwise staggering economy overboard.
One would have expected consultations with the relevant business …

We launched a media campaign on the need for the draft alcohol policy, not least because Ghana’s Parliament discussed “Alcohol Abuse” on Thursday, June 18th, 2009. Some of the deliberations exposed the narrow understanding of the issues surrounding alcohol.
It was instructive to know that in an hour-long television programmed on Ghana’s State-Owned Television, Mr. Cudjoe of IMANI discussed the issues surrounding alcohol abuse and the need for an alcohol policy for Ghana with two leading Parliamentarians who took part in the debate.
Members will attest to …

Diageo, the parent company of Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has announced the promotion of Mr. Seni Adetu, erstwhile Managing Director of Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, to Group Managing Director, East African Breweries Limited (EABL) – the group of companies covering countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda etc headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The appointment takes effect July 1, 2009.
In the Statement, the company noted that Mr. Adetu joined Diageo 3 years ago as Managing Director/ Vice Chairman of Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (after 14 highly successful years in very …

IMANI director, Franklin Cudjoe met with Ghana’s Minister of Health at the United Nations Economic and Social Council Conference in Accra on e-Health held in Accra between June 10-June 11.
Franklin reminded the Minister about the alcohol policy and he said “Yes, it is very important eh?”. Franklin promised to follow up with a reminder to the Minister on an August 2009 deadline for governments to submit preliminary reports on efforts to draft policies on alcohol.
Franklin was speaking at the UN conference on Mobile Pedigree, the latest mobile-phone …

Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) on Friday announced the appointment of Mr Gregory Metcalf as the new Managing Director for SABMiller’s Ghana operations.
Mr. Metcalf’s appointment took effect from June 1, 2009, a statement from the ABL in Accra said.
The statement said Mr. Metcalf, a British, is an experienced Managing Director who had spent the last 10 years as Managing Director in several manufacturing organisations before joining SABMiller in 2008 as the Commercial Director for the Nile Breweries in Uganda.
“Mr. Metcalf’s experience includes product innovation, sales and marketing, administration and distribution management …

IMANI director, Franklin Cudjoe, former deputy head of the FDB, Mr. Kwamina Van-Ess and Mr. Andrew Akolaa, Marketing Manager of Kasapreko distilleries formally presented the draft alcohol policy to Hon. Dr. Sipa-Adjah Yankey, Ghana’s new Health Minister. Minister promised to study the draft and said hopefully, there would be no need to re-invent the wheel.
Franklin later joined the Minister of health and his Ghanaian delegation at a luncheon on M-Health projects organized by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the United States lobby agency, the Whitaker Group in …

Last October 2008, IMANI’s CEO facilitated a high-powered Ghanaian delegation to the second regional meeting of ICAP.
Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, whose IMANI facilitated Ghana’s draft policy on alcohol spoke on Partnership & Multi-sectoral Approaches in Alcohol Policy formulation. The former Deputy Minister of Health for Ghana, Hon. Abraham Dwumah Odoom underscored the need to have a good alcohol policy.
He was very glad that Ghana had set the pace for successful draft of the policy and was ready to present to Parliamentary Committed on Health as well …

Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director of Imani Centre for Policy and Education (ICPE) has called on government to develop a comprehensive national policy that would help educate the public on the negative effects of alcohol.
Mr Cudjoe said this in Accra at one of a series of workshops on national alcohol draft policy consideration organized by the ICPE to consider, approve and agree on its draft national alcohol policy, that would be presented to government and its stakeholders for adoption.
He said the nation needed a coherent framework that would help design …

IMANI’s Executive Director, Franklin Cudjoe and Former Deputy Director of Food and Drugs Board, Mr Kwamina Van Ess, met with Ghana’s Health Minister to discuss health issues.
The discussion focused on Ghana’s position on the WHO’s Inter Governmental Working Group on Intellectual Property as it relates to development of medicines and progression of the National Alcohol Policy work IMANI initiated.
The discussions with the Ghanaian Minister of Health on Ghana’s position, revealed a rare sensible position – that breaking patents have the effect of weakening Africa’s ability to protect its medical breakthroughs …