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Reunionese companies in the commercial sector have created an added value of 7,5 billion euros in 2018, for a turnover of 26 billion, according to the latest figures from INSEE. Over a year, this overall added value has increased slightly, of 74 million euros (1%). It only increased for half of the already existing companies and fell by....

Over the period 2016-2018, women gave birth on average 1,89 enfant, according to the latest INSEE national study on fertility. This overall fertility indicator, overall decline, is however higher in Overseas, Martinique excepted (1,83 children per woman). It reaches 1,99 in Guadeloupe, 2,38 in Reunion, 3,77 in Guyana and 4,92...

CBO Territoria achieved a turnover of 103 last year,6 million euros, down 6,4% compared to the previous year. “A high level of turnover which demonstrates our resilience”, commented its CEO Eric Wuillai. La Mare society was impacted by confinement from March to May 2020, which led to....

While waiting for the overall figures for the year 2020, armament Sapmer communicated its results for the 1st half of last year. They are not good, reflecting the strong disruption of fishing activities generated by the health crisis. Sapmer saw its turnover increase from 87,5 to 53,4 million euros between the first half of 2019 and....

The South Indian Ocean Sea Department commissioned a study in 2020 relating to the organization and structuring of the market for fishing and aquaculture products in Reunion Island., whose results were recently published. The inventory of the Reunion market firstly shows that traditional points of sale (fishmongers, markets…)...

The Image PME study by the Order of Chartered Accountants shows that Reunion SMEs resisted the health crisis relatively well at the end of the first three quarters of 2020.. They saw their turnover reduce by 1,1% over the period, against -8,7% for all French SMEs. If activity contracted sharply in the 2nd quarter (-14%), the...

700 millions d’euros C’est le niveau de progression de l’épargne des ménages réunionnais, measured by Iédom, between December 2019 and September 2020. “This situation is explained by the period of confinement during which consumption was strongly restricted and also by the concern raised by the coronavirus pandemic which favors precautionary savings”, comments the Emission Institute. Businesses....

The Grand Port Maritime was also affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Tonnages processed decreased by 4% in 2020, by setting aside the activities of transfer of materials intended for NRL construction sites, which ended last year. According to the numbers, still provisional, 5,344 million tonnes of goods passed through....

The final figures from Roland-Garros airport for 2020 confirm the first estimates : over the year, traffic dropped by 58,2%. The platform welcomed 1,040,139 passengers – a level equivalent to that of 1993 – compared to almost 2,5 million in 2019. Traffic collapsed from March, when the Covid-19 pandemic....

Specializing in the supply of street furniture made from 100% recycled plastic, the Reunion company Empreinte Urbaine wants to go further with its ValoPlastic project. Thanks to an innovative process, which is the subject of a patent application, it offers to transform plastic waste of all kinds, and without prior sorting, in a binder used in the composition of concrete,...