The global co-operative movement is getting ready for the biggest trade event promoted by the International Co-operative Alliance.

ICA ExpoCoop 2010, the second international trade fair for the global co-operative movement, will be held from 08-10 December, at K.T.P.O. Trade Centre Bangalore, India.

Co-operatives from many countries such as Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Georgia, Korea, India, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, East Timor, UK and the U.S.A., will join the hosted country to showcase exclusive co-operative products and services and increase their import/export opportunities. They will benefit from significant business opportunities offered by the market today.

ICA ExpoCoop's professional visitors will have a wide selection of competitive products and services from which to choose. Agricultural, consumer, worker and service co-operatives (health, energy, and others), organisations supporting co-operatives, and suppliers of goods and services for the co-operative sector will demonstrate the financial and competitive advantages of co-operative products on which supermarkets, tourism (hotel and restaurant), distributors and wholesalers, traders who specialize in food and beverage, importers exporters as well as government entities, rely.

Exhibitors will showcase products that respect co-operative values and the co-operative difference. at thesame time as marketing the co-operative advantage in the international market place.