Is the wind of a new ambition blowing over Reunion? ? A number of projects announced or already underway are currently taking Reunion companies out of their traditional walls.. Certainly, the idea that Reunion is “exported” is not new. It is even one of the major objectives and challenges set for its development for the decades to come.. And it is first of all with zeop that we put this wind of ambition in full light in this issue, returning to the strategy of the Reunion operator which plans to make Reunion a digital hub, a digital relay between Asia and Africa, a data storage center in the Indian Ocean that could be of interest to GAFAM in particular. The general manager of zeop, Xavier Joseph, sheds light on this vision and the dynamics of the company at the start of 2022.
publication director and editor-in-chief
Another ambition, that of OSR Security : the private security company from Reunion reveals that it won the security contract for the largest water treatment plant in Europe last year, and now aims even bigger. Regional ambition at Ocetra : the Reunion underwater and maritime works company is now called : Ocetra Indian Ocean. Its founder and director, Axel Fernandez, explains why. But it is also the L2D Group, known for its great franchises in hygiene and beauty, which has just bought the La Case à Pains bakery network and demonstrates its ambition in the Reunion food sector with its first own brand. As for the 30th anniversary of Fibers Industrie Bois, he does not make us look so much at his past as at his future and his ambition to be a player in the sustainable Reunion towns of tomorrow. I enjoy, otherwise, to highlight a female leader recently honored by the Legion of Honor, Angelique Goodall, regional director of Pôle Emploi. It gives us the opportunity to highlight a significant fact that has been little noticed until now. : the historic drop in unemployment in Réunion, with a rate of 17%, when a few years ago, this one flirted with 30% ! So many ambitions to discover in this back-to-school issue of Leader Réunion.
Carole Manote, publication director and editor-in-chief
