As of last Fri­day, 60 per cent of the 2010 Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) trade show floor had been sold, or­gan­is­ers have said.

Pre­mi­um spaces on the floor were 80 per cent sold (for ex­am­ple, cor­ner booths), and the very pop­u­lar "Bridge"–which links the two con­ven­tion halls of the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad, where the show will be held, is en­tire­ly sold out.

T&T ac­counts for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 60 per cent of ex­hibitors at the show. Com­pa­nies range from man­u­fac­tur­ers to ser­vice providers, fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies and more.

Over­seas ex­hibits at TIC 2010 will in­clude pavil­ions from: Brazil and the Unit­ed King­dom (UK), and com­pa­nies from: An­guil­la, Bar­ba­dos, Bermu­da, Cana­da, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Grena­da, Guade­loupe, the King­dom of the Nether­lands, Malaysia, the Nether­lands, Scot­land, South Africa, the UK, and the Unit­ed States.

Hun­dreds of over­seas buy­ers have reg­is­tered for the con­ven­tion, rang­ing from rep­re­sen­ta­tives of dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­nies and whole­salers, to in­di­vid­ual re­tail­ers, and cor­po­rate pur­chas­ing agents, from the fol­low­ing coun­tries:

1. An­tigua and Bar­bu­da

2. Ba­hamas

3. Bar­ba­dos

4. Bangladesh

5. Cameroon

6. Cana­da

7. Cu­ra­cao, Nether­lands An­tilles

8. Do­mini­ca

9. Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic

10. Ghana

11. Guade­loupe

12. Guyana

13. In­dia

14. Ja­maica

15. Nige­ria

16. Pak­istan

17. Pana­ma

18. St Maarten, Nether­land An­tilles

19. South Africa

20. Unit­ed States

21. Venezuela

22. Vir­gin Is­lands (British)