The Sustainable Markets Intelligence Centre, CIMS, based in Costa Rica is offering free registration to its on-line bulletin board and business directory for Latin America.

The organisation provides detailed, product-specific market intelligence related to environmentally and socially sustainable fruit and vegetable production in Latin America. CIMS enables Latin American firms to orient their products toward high-value markets such as the UK. It is a private, not for profit initiative of the Latin American Centre for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS) based at Costa Rican business school INCAE.

Through its web site, cims-la.com CIMS offers: directories of sustainable business and support organisations;a virtual library of market publications, a buy-sell bulletin board featuring offers of sustainable products; a virtual trade fair for sustainable products; links to other references and sources of key market information.

Until December 15, 2003 CIMS will offer registration free of charge to its buy-sell bulletin board and business directory to interested clients. Visit cims-la.com for more information.