Federación Argentina de Cooperativas de Consumo (FACC)

Paraguay 445, 1° piso
8000 Bahia Blanca
Argentina

FACC is the oldest second degree organization for the Argentine urban co-operatives. Founded in 1932 by 26 consumer co-operatives convened by Cooperative El Hogar Obrero, the first Argentine cooperative affiliated to the International Cooperative Alliance. The Federation has a wide range of activities, such as:

- agreements with universities to facilitate the study and dissemination of the consumer
cooperative education in the country and the world
- promotes concrete actions to integrate consumer cooperatives with the workers
cooperatives and/or production
- provides training to officials and employees of associated cooperatives
- carries out an intense activity of defense and interests of the consumer cooperative sector with governments and public bodies.