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An exclusivity agreement was concluded at the end of June in favor of the company UBP (United Basalt Products) for the acquisition of materials manufacturing and trading companies held in Reunion Island by Pascal Leandri and his senior executives, including the “flagship” Préfabéton. The operation was presented to the staff representative bodies of the companies concerned and....

This is the amount of the envelope allocated to Reunion as part of the exceptional aid put in place by the government to offset part of the additional costs of animal feed on farms., linked to the severe disruptions in the supply of cereals and vegetable proteins since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. In the meeting, this device concerns....

The number of new car sales fell by only 4,88% in the 1st semester in Reunion, under the effect of the shortage of semiconductors which pushed manufacturers to reduce their activity. The brake (15,493 registrations) is significantly less brutal than that observed in mainland France over the period (-16 %). Sales of....

Since August 1, the price of the gas bottle is displayed at 15 euros at all retailers on the island. It should normally have been 21,93 euros, according to the latest prices calculated by the prefecture, but the exceptional aid announced by the Department and the Region at the beginning of July came into force on that date. The two communities....

Consumer prices increased by 0,6% in June in Reunion, according to the latest INSEE index. Inflation hits 4,2% over one year, particularly due to the rise in energy prices (+26,6% in twelve months) and petroleum products (+34,3 %). This increase leads to an increase in transport prices (+26,7 %),...

Rodolphe Saade, president and CEO of the CMA-CGM, confirmed at the end of July that its company would reduce its freight rates by 750 euros per 40-foot container to mainland France and overseas territories from August 1, 2022, for a period of one year. Initially, this discount should have been 500 euros. CMA-CGM recalled having frozen its rates..

In June, EDF Renewables launched the construction of a photovoltaic power plant with an installed capacity of 5 megawatts at the Port., near the mouth of the Rivière des Galets. When it comes into service scheduled for 2023, it will produce the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of more than 4,500 inhabitants.. The solar power plant is located on municipal land where....

Following the cancellation of the toothfish management plan by the administrative court, the French Southern and Antarctic lands administration launched a new call for tenders and granted fishing authorizations to nine boats at the beginning of August. Seven of them are the “armament-ship pairs” already selected during the 2019-2022 period and which....

Between January 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, 1,600 companies were inspected by agents from the Competition department, consumption, fraud prevention and metrology of the Economy Department, employment, work and solidarity (Deets) which track commercial practices and fraud deceiving consumers and penalizing companies that respect regulations....

Air Austral is the first private company to obtain the Efficiency label created by the Green cluster (Regional grouping of companies committed to the environment) based on the criteria of the ISO 26 000 standard, first international standard for corporate social responsibility. Its framework is based on five pillars : quality of life at work,...