On August 15th,, 2017, the teams began to serve breakfast and lunch at the American School of Antananarivo. Around 180 students and teachers have their meals there each day. Newrest Madagascar is continuing to assist Ambatovy with its requests for innovation and efforts to reduce costs. In November 2017, the teams served the 10,000,000th meal for Ambatovy since the contract started in December 2012.

The subsidiary also started a new contract with the Outremer Telecom call centre in Antanarivo, where the teams serve lunch and dinner.

In terms of recruitment, Newrest will be integrating two recruits into the local ‘Malagasy Graduate Program’ to promote local managers in its activity with Ambatovy.

In August 2017, the subsidiary renewed ISO 9001:2015 certification for customer satisfaction management and for the first time obtained OHSAS 18001:2007 certification for health and safety at work management.

The teams were also proud to help the ‘Entendre le Monde’ organisation with organisational and logistical support.