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Pascal Quineau succeeded Jean-Emile Fontaine as president of the regional bank of Crédit agricole de la Réunion on March 30.. Born in 1963 in mainland France, Pascal Quineau is a breeder of laying hens in Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts. At the head of SCEA Chemin d’Eau, he produces Matines brand eggs. The “green bank”..

The municipality of Saint-Denis and Citeo, the French actor in the expansion of producers for household papers and packaging, signed an agreement in early April to combat abandoned waste "by implementing preventive solutions, curative and sustainable ". An action plan will be developed on the basis of a diagnosis but, without waiting,...

After six months of releasing sterilized male mosquitoes, capable of fertilizing females in the natural environment which will then lay eggs incapable of hatching, the fertility of the stinging insect has decreased by almost 50% in Duparc. This district of Sainte-Marie was chosen by the Research Institute for Development to test the sterile insect technique..

The government has decided on “additional aid of 14 million euros per year for the benefit of sugar cane planters in Reunion from the 2022 campaign”, announced Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture, and Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas, in a letter sent on March 23 to the inter-professional sector of the sector. The State thus responds favorably..

The SHLMR presented the Logement des Hauts label at the beginning of April, a 100% Reunionese framework aimed at improving housing in Hauts de l’île. The approach was born from an observation : housing in Hauts, which must adapt to a humid and rainy climate, have design problems (isolation, waterproofing, choice of materials) but also uses by....

The surge in prices of construction materials is seriously undermining the optimism emerging from the latest economic report on housing and construction from the Environment Department, planning and housing (Deal). She emphasizes that in 2021, 8,210 housing units were authorized for construction, figure up 8,3% compared....

Concern rises, in the ranks of the Reunion Building and Public Works Federation, faced with the explosion in the prices of construction materials. “+80% in one year for aluminum, +50% for steel », she cites as examples. “A deep crisis is beginning”, warns Stéphane Brossard, president of the technical commission of the Federation. The socio-professional organization brought together the...

The Isautier establishments will invest a total of 7 million euros in the expansion of its Saint-Pierre factory, whose work has just begun. They must be completed in 2025. To this date, the production capacity of the factory will reach 5,7 million liters of spirits, against 1,9 today. This increase in load, with 18 new maceration tanks, will allow Isautier...

The Issuance Institute of Overseas Departments recently published a study devoted to service stations in Reunion and their economic model. The 159 resorts on the island employ 10 employees on average, compared to a little less than 6 for the national average. They record a higher commercial margin rate than those in mainland France but generate a lower operating surplus,...

The Grand Port Maritime de la Réunion has put a new versatile mobile crane into service a few weeks ago, at a cost of 5 million euros, capable of operating both container ships and truquiers. The primary vocation of this Liebherr brand equipment, lifting capacity of more than 150 tonnes, is to treat....