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The board of directors of the Real Estate Company of the Department of Reunion (CIDER) named Thierry Ouillon, as general director for a period of five years, from November 2, 2021. Aged 53, Thierry Ouillon occupait les fonctions de directeur général de l’Office Public de l’Habitat et de l’Immobilier dans le Puy-de-Dôme depuis 2019....

The new buildings of the CIRAD plant protection center, in Saint-Pierre, were inaugurated on November 22 by Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, in the presence of local elected officials and Elisabeth Claverie de Saint Martin, présidente-directrice générale du l'organisme français de recherche agronomique et de coopération internationale pour le développement. Launched in October 2019, financé par la...

For calculations of the number of companies, INSEE took the company into account in its legal definition. According to this approach, the non-agricultural and non-financial commercial sectors of Réunion counted 45,600 companies in 2019. Or, the economic modernization law of 2008 introduced a new notion of business in the economic sense, qui permet de prendre en...

After Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul, Saint-Denis launched its rental offer of electrically assisted bicycles on November 19. It is broken down into two products. Sodiparc has acquired 30 “VAE” offered for long-term rental of one to three months, at the monthly rate of 30 euros. La modicité du prix vise à faire prendre goût à...

In 2020, the University of Réunion associated with two Mauritian universities launched the SWIO project (Solar and Wind energy in the Indian Ocean). Its object : study the climate variability of solar radiation and wind in Réunion and Mauritius using a regional climate model capable of producing data for the near future (horizons...

The University of Réunion and the Research Institute for Development (IRD) are partners in three mixed research units : Espace-Dev (space observation, models and science involved), pimi (Infectious process in an island environment) and Entropy (Tropical Marine Ecology of the Pacific and Indian Oceans).
Mi-November, on the occasion of Valérie Verdier’s visit to Réunion, President and CEO of the IRD,...

The Medef Business Awards 2021 were awarded on October 28 during the annual general meeting of the employers' organization, organized in Saint-Denis in the presence of Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, national president. Just like last year, the third edition of this competition, launched in 2018, was dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility actions (RSE). Deux catégories ont été distinguées...

In 2019, Reunion Island merchant businesses have created 7,8 billion euros of added value, for a turnover of 26,8 billion, according to a recent publication from INSEE. The added value created increases sharply, of 324 million euros (+4,3%), after weak growth in 2018. Construction sectors (+78 millions), of teaching, de la santé et de l’action...

Le nombre de demandeurs d’emploi tenus d’en rechercher un et sans activité (category A) a baissé de 1,4% au 3ème trimestre et de 5,3% sur un an, according to the latest official figures. Il s’établissait en moyenne à 128 450 inscrits à Pôle Emploi. La baisse est moins significative en incluant les chômeurs qui ont malgré tout exercé une activité...

Ibrahim Patel could count on an easy reappointment to his position as president of the CCI Réunion, on November 24 during the first plenary assembly of the mandate. At the end of the consular elections organized for the first time online from October 27 to November 9, sa liste a emporté les 16 sièges du collège Services et les...