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The Vietnamese automobile brand VinFast has signed a strategic partnership with the West Indian group Loret for the distribution of its vehicles on the overseas territories market.. Loret Group will establish sales channels and supply VinFast electric vehicles to local dealers and customers. L'accord de distribution est conclu pour cinq ans. Le distributeur va d’abord se...

In 2020, in the meeting, the number of inhabitants aged 50 or over reached 278,000 people, exceeding for the first time the number of under-20s. The aging of the population is expected to continue until 2050, where 371,000 seniors live on the island. Especially, the number of people aged 75 or over would triple. Ce vieillissement aura...

“Although this problem is not specific to overseas territories, the dynamism of tourism employment remains limited and faces structural weaknesses : chronic recruitment difficulties, precarious working conditions and vulnerability to crises (sanitary, social, climatic), estimates a report from the Court of Auditors, qui s’intéressait pour la première fois à...

The quarterly Image PME survey, carried out by the Sagis firm on the basis of data from accountants, showed a seventh consecutive drop in the average turnover of Reunion VSEs and SMEs in the 2nd quarter of 2025. He went back 0,9% compared to the previous quarter and 1% year-on-year, et ces chiffres ne sont...

The latest annual report from Iédom on payment deadlines practiced in overseas departments covered 2023 for those of businesses and 2024 for payment deadlines practiced by State services, of the local public sector and the public hospital sector. In 2023, le seuil légal de 60 jours pour les délais de paiement des...

Seasonal rentals generated more than 30 million euros in revenue in the first half of 2025 in the west of the island, according to a study by the microregional tourist office. This figure is up 11% in one year, sign of undeniable dynamism. Between the first half of 2024 and 2025, le revenu moyen par logement est passé de 69...

Despite a slowdown, the employed workforce in Réunion continued to increase in the second quarter of 2025, according to the General Social Security Fund (CGSS). The increase is however limited to 185 net job creations in three months. 198,547 employees were counted on the island in the 2nd quarter. Accommodation and catering (+370 positions) and social action and health (+230 positions) font...

In 2023, 361,000 inhabitants aged 15 or over were “active” on the labor market in Reunion : they had a job or were actively looking for one, according to the latest INSEE study. The active population increased by an average of 2,500 people each year between 2018 and 2023 on the island, une hausse bien moindre que dans le...

The consumer price index fell 0,7% in Reunion in September, like in August. On the month, prices of services have decreased by 0,6 % ; half of the drop was driven by that of the prices of transport services (-8,8 %). Les prix de l’énergie sont restés stables et ceux des produits manufacturés...

According to the Reunion Tourism Committee (CRT), tourist numbers on the island increased by 3% in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. 272,284 foreign tourists were welcomed from January to June, and tourism revenue reached 229,1 million euros, up +3,5 %. “These data constitute new records, elles...