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This is the percentage of professionals who say they at least partially pass on increases in their costs in their selling prices., according to the Iédom economic survey in the 4th quarter of 2021. Two-thirds of the companies surveyed said they were affected by these increases, with an increase in costs over the year of more than +10% for half of them.

In 2021, Reunion Island welcomed 250,812 foreign tourists, according to the annual survey commissioned by the IRT. The figure increases modestly by 15,7% compared to 2020 and remains 53% lower than in previous years (534,000 arrivals in 2018 and 2019). More than 88% of tourists counted last year came from France and 24% were from....

L’Armeflhor (Reunion Island Association for the Modernization of the Fruit Economy, vegetable and horticultural) was awarded the ITA-Innov 2022 prize on March 2 at the Agricultural Show, awarded by French agricultural and agro-industrial technical institutes, in the “environment-biodiversity-climate” category, for having developed a method of pollinating tomatoes in greenhouses by a carpenter bee. Called....

The household consumer price index increased by 0,1% in February in Reunion, announces INSEE. The increase in food prices has accelerated, due to the surge in prices of fresh produce (+26%), mainly fruits and vegetables, after cyclones Batsirai and Emnati. Energy prices, who had fallen by 3,1% in January, leave again...

On March 7, Medef Réunion launched a new system, called PAC 2022 and co-financed by the European Union and the European Social Fund to support project leaders. Nine weeks of support from training organizations (Sodom, Up&Go, CForm, Numéria and AB Consultant) are planned, with a dedicated team and sponsors to enable business creators..

The prefecture has modified the schedule of pre-electoral procedures, with a view to new elections of members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, following the cancellation of the previous vote by the administrative court. Difficulties were indeed noted in the preparation of the list of voters, including companies created since the closing of the electoral list..

Until then, the Martin-de-Viviès base, on the island of Amsterdam, produced its energy only with generators powered by diesel. These groups provided the electricity essential to maintaining a permanent human presence, the operation of service facilities and scientific laboratories. This base is powered, since March 10, by a hybrid power plant, photovoltaic and thermal. After a consultation procedure....

The “price-quality shield” version 2022 was presented on March 16 : it contains 153 products whose overall price cannot exceed 348 euros, from March 28, 2022 until February 28, 2023, in the 63 stores on the island participating in the operation. The list expanded last year to 153 products has been extended, with...

From March 1 to April 22, 2022, INSEE is carrying out its spatial comparison survey of price levels between French territories (ECSP). The survey makes it possible to compare consumer price levels between mainland France and overseas departments and regions., between the province and Corsica and between the province and the urban unit of Paris,...

With 18 medals, Reunion does better than previous years in the General Agricultural Competition organized on the occasion of the Agricultural Show. The jam makers return from Paris covered with honor with no less than 10 medals, including three gold ones awarded to Prema Patche for its banana jam with passion fruit and papaya jam with vanilla,...