The programme is helping create the needed policy environment to drive investment into these sectors to operate at their fullest potential, generate wealth and generate employment, she said.
Her team was helping Ghana identify the right investors for the factory in financing to enable the factory return to its former days of full operation and production, she was quoted as saying by Ghanaian media reports.
The factory now employs 750 workers instead of about 2,000 earlier.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, member of Ghanaian parliament for North Tongu Constituency, said advanced discussions were under way with investors in the United Kingdom who had expressed interest in revamping the facility.
Thompson also indicated that the neighbouring Akosombo Textile Limited would also feature under the British Trade Portfolio, which they were seeking to increase under the new Ghana-UK Trade Agreement, he added.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)