Press Coverage

As part of her CSR activities, BG International (real estate developers) has partnered GEM with Hope foundation as a sponsor, to help train and develop basketball talents in the country.  The GEM with Hope Foundation is an NGO that uses basketball as a tool to inspire the minds and hearts of the youth within our communities, to dream and hope…read more →

BG International (BGI), a US-based real estate development firm with an office in Ghana, has donated $10,000 towards a street-lighting project for the Gbawe community, a suburb of Accra.The donation was made at a durbar held to climax the celebration of the Homowo festival in Gbawe recently. Mr. Irwin Barkan, Chief Executive Officer of BGI, said the donation was to restart…read more →

  BG International, an American-based development firm, in collaboration with Safe Water Network, has commissioned a Safe Water Station at Yawkwei in the Ashanti region. The safe water station is expected to serve over 12,000 people in four villages in the Ashanti region. The station pumps raw water from existing boreholes and treats it through chlorination to meet World Health…read more →

BGI LLC  Featured in Shopping Centers Today’s December 2013 Magazine.   Africa’s Next Frontier By Anna Robaton Africa’s surging economies, burgeoning middle classes and rapidly growing cities promise to keep retail developers busy for Years.  …According to CEO Irwin Barkan of BG International, a U.S. shopping centre developer “who said ten years ago there was not a modern supermarket on the continent…read more →

“According the World Bank’s Africa Pulse report in April, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to reach more than 5 per cent on average between 2013 and 2015, making Africa among the fastest growing regions in the world.” GulfNews.com features BGI LL’s CEO Irwin Barkan in this article about retail and retailor trends in Africa’s blooming economies…

REUTERS, “When Wal-Mart Stores (WMT.N), the world’s top retailer, bought control of major South African discount chain Massmart Holdings (MSMJ.J) in 2011, American shopping mall developer Irwin Barkan had an epiphany….”

BGI LLC CEO Irwin Barkan, was recently quoted about the future of mall security around the globe following the tragic incidence in Niarobi.