Distributors in Latin America
Distributors serving growers, packers and exporters in Latin America, including global operators active in the region.
El Huerto is a Mexico City based distributor that sources fresh fruits and vegetables from the Central de Abastos wholesale market and resells them to business buyers. It supplies produce along with dry chiles, groceries and meat to restaurants, hotels, industrial canteens and catering companies. It operates as an intermediary rather than a grower.
Alamenia S.A. is an Argentine seafood importer and distributor with more than 35 years in the market, based in San Martin, Buenos Aires province. It imports and distributes fish and shellfish nationwide, supplying hotels, restaurants, and wholesale markets across Argentina.
AlimentoChile, founded in 2005, processes and distributes seafood alongside groceries, oils, dairy, preserves and condiments from its facility on Senda Sur in Puerto Montt, supplying supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, bars and catering companies across the Los Lagos region.
Antartik Global imports and distributes fish and shellfish in Barranquilla with more than eight years in the sector, holding AUNAP fisheries commercialization registration and sourcing Pacific shellfish and crustaceans plus imported pork products under a controlled cold chain.
Wholesale frozen food distributor with over 30 years in the Sao Paulo and Greater ABC market, supplying frozen potatoes, breaded onion rings, vegetables and fruit pulp to bars, restaurants, hotels and industrial kitchens, registered under CNPJ 74.455.916/0001-72.
Produce wholesaler operating from the CEASA-RJ wholesale market in Iraja, Rio de Janeiro, with a public counter at pavilion 33 and a separate distribution center at pavilion 300, running a refrigerated truck fleet to supply retailers across Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo state.
Foodservice distributor serving Sao Paulo state through the Irmaos Avelino (founded 1991), Mariusso (1992) and Vinhais (1985) brands, delivering ambient, refrigerated and frozen products in single multi-temperature runs to restaurants, hotels, bakeries and hospitals.
Organic fruit and vegetable importer headquartered in Duisburg since 1997, sourcing certified organic produce including bananas, mangoes, and other fruit from growers worldwide, operating its own ripening chambers, and packing and distributing the produce to European retailers.
Guatemala's first dedicated perishables wholesale market, operating since 2000 on a 39 hectare site in Guatemala City with roughly 1,220 tenants across 723 stalls, trading an estimated 60 million dollars in fruit and vegetables monthly, with delivery service into Mixco and surrounding areas.
Centralia is a Monterrey wholesale produce distributor with more than 27 years in the fresh fruit and vegetable market, supplying restaurants, hotels and businesses across Nuevo Leon and Coahuila with direct producer relationships and cold chain handling from harvest to delivery.
Chef Market is a multi category food distributor founded in 1974 that began by outsourcing distribution of Papas Margarita and has since expanded to supply frozen bakery, dairy, sauces, canned goods and prepared foods across traditional retail, foodservice and institutional channels in Cundinamarca, Tolima, Magdalena and La Guajira.
ChyFoodService distributes frozen sweet and savory products, including empanadas, mozzarella sticks, pre-fried potatoes and baked goods, to food businesses from Santiago with nationwide home and wholesale delivery.
Panama City based importer and distributor of food and beverages including rice, beans, chicken products and drinks, serving retail, wholesale and warehouse-club markets across Panama, Chile and Central America.
CINAMIG S.A. is an Argentine wholesale food trading company founded in 2018 and based at Cosquin 2184, Mataderos, in the Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires. It handles vacuno and porcino meat commercialization, frozen product distribution held at minus 18 degrees Celsius, and import and export operations in the national and international food market.
Founded in 2013 in Ciudad del Este, imports and distributes food and other consumer products to wholesalers, retailers, supermarkets and bakeries in Paraguay and neighboring Mercosur countries using its own delivery fleet.
COMA (Comercializadora Mayorista de Abarrotes) is a Merida based wholesale grocery distributor carrying more than 3,200 branded consumer products from its own inventory of over 5,000 items, supplying the southeastern states of Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz and part of Puebla through its own delivery fleet.
Consumer products wholesale distributor founded in 1992, operating from Mariano Roque Alonso and supplying supermarkets, wholesale stores, self-service shops, bakeries, pharmacies and hospitals across greater Asuncion.
Food and beverage distributor founded in 1995 as the exclusive Ecuadorian distributor for Compania Nacional de Chocolates and Industrias Alimenticias Noel, operating offices in Quito and Guayaquil and a nationwide concessionaire network built up between 1998 and 2002 that supplies supermarkets, wholesalers and traditional stores with brands including Colcafe, Sello Rojo and Doria.
Importer and distributor of mass consumption food products headquartered at Km 11 Norte, Parque Empresarial Coronado I in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, with more than 30 years operating as the exclusive Bolivian distributor for brands including Bacardi, Frito-Lay, Quaker, Lays and Doritos across the country's central trunk cities.
Fresh fruit import and distribution company based in Barrio Barandillas, San Pedro Sula, handling imported apples, grapes, plums, kiwis, peaches, pears, apricots, cherries, persimmons and citrus alongside canned goods for direct customer delivery.
Distribuidora De La Sabana has wholesaled animal protein and gourmet products since 1986 from its facility on Calle 79 in Bogota, distributing pork, beef, lamb, poultry, salmon and specialty imported brands including Swift, Tyson, Hatfield and Smithfield to restaurants and food processors.
Distribuidora Dumy is a Guadalajara frozen food wholesaler founded in 1991 that supplies proteins, seafood, frozen produce and prepared items to the HORECA sector across eight western Mexico states and more than 200 municipalities, running its own delivery fleet including electric and hybrid vehicles.
Wholesale and retail food distributor operating for over 20 years with eight branches across metropolitan Montevideo, including a branch inside the UAM wholesale market, selling cold cuts, cheeses, beverages and staples.
Panama City distributor of fresh and frozen seafood founded in 1999, operating from Calle Monteserin in Santa Ana and supplying supermarkets, restaurants, hotels and independent retailers, sourcing from the Americas and Asia.
National food brand distributor operating three distribution centers in Panama City, the central provinces and David, part of Grupo Agrosilos, running a fleet of more than 35 delivery vehicles and distributing over 20 national and international food brands.
Food, beverage and household-goods wholesale distributor operating centers in San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa de Copan, Tegucigalpa and Saba Colon, with 150 direct employees running over 55 retail routes and 6 wholesale routes carrying brands including Nestle and Colgate-Palmolive.
DSPC is a wholesale meat distributor based in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, operating since 1937, sourcing beef and pork from TIF certified plants 776 and 541, and supplying restaurants, taquerias and caterers in the Puebla and Cholula area with cold chain delivery within 24 to 48 hours.
Fish and seafood importer and distributor operating from 4to Anillo casi Beni, Esquina Calle Wanda Hancke No. 34 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, supplying shrimp, clams, mussels, surubi and corvina to local buyers via delivery and a storefront.
Operates the Gran Mercado Mayorista de Lima at Avenida La Cultura 808 in Santa Anita, a municipal wholesale market handling large daily volumes of fruit and vegetables, with a dedicated fruit pavilion of over 7,000 square meters and around 104 sales posts opened in 2025, plus electronic invoicing services for wholesale suppliers.
Municipal public enterprise operating Ecuador's largest agricultural wholesale collection and distribution center in Ambato, supplying an estimated 70 percent of national territory with fruit, vegetables and tubers, with dedicated vendor bays including Nave P for fresh coastal fruit and market days concentrated on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Asuncion, this company produces and distributes food products for fast-food chains, operating branches covering central, eastern and northern Paraguay.
Frozen and refrigerated food distributor operating for 29 years from Rua Theodoro Locker in the CIC Norte III industrial district of Curitiba, supplying potatoes, chicken, fruit pulp, meat and fish to bars, restaurants, pizzerias, bakeries and school canteens with its own refrigerated fleet.
Wholesale food distributor based in Fortaleza serving the metropolitan region, supplying frozen products, refrigerated meats, confectionery ingredients and packaging supplies to bakeries, confectioners and restaurants across Ceara state through an online ordering platform.
Fresh Food imports and wholesales frozen seafood, fish and premium meats including shrimp, tilapia, salmon, basa and calamar, operating distribution centers in Cali, Bogota, Medellin and Barranquilla from its main site on Calle 30 in Cali, having grown out of the COELED SAS import business founded in 2019.
Friofood imports, processes and distributes frozen and refrigerated meat, seafood, deli and grocery products to restaurants, casinos and chains from a facility in Lampa, Santiago, opened January 2025, and holds ISO 9001 and HACCP certification.
Wholesale fruit and vegetable distributor operating out of the Merca Panama wholesale market, sourcing 79 fruit and 91 vegetable varieties from the Boquete and Cerro Punta highlands of Chiriqui for bulk buyers.
Frutiagro commercializes and distributes fresh fruit, vegetables and tubers from a base in the Corabastos wholesale market in Bogota, operating a 500 square meter processing plant for pre-cut and transformed produce plus a company owned refrigerated delivery fleet running seven days a week.
Food service distributor based in Votorantim, Sao Paulo state, operating a 13,000 square meter cold storage facility for frozen and refrigerated goods and its own delivery fleet, supplying bakeries, hotels, pizzerias and supermarket chains across the state.
Gilio is a cold chain food distributor based at 12 de Octubre 2125 in San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro province. It distributes refrigerated, frozen, and super-frozen products, including dairy, cold cuts, vacuum-packed meat, and poultry, to retail points of sale across Bariloche, Villa La Angostura, San Martin de los Andes, Junin de los Andes, El Bolson, and Lago Puelo, as an exclusive representative for several national food brands.
Global Food Comercializadora is a Merida food distributor supplying pizzerias, hotels and the restaurant industry with imported and own brand items under the GF The Best and Choice Man labels, including canned goods, cured meats, sauces and cheeses, from its Caucel facility.
Peruvian S.A.C. company operating wholesale distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables in Lima with its own delivery fleet, supplying business buyers across the metropolitan area.
Panama City wholesale importer and distributor of fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy and premium meats operating over 25 years from Parque Industrial Costa del Este, supplying supermarkets, hotels and restaurants and running its own solar power system.
Foodservice distributor founded in 2016 operating an e-commerce ordering platform for hotels, restaurants, cafeterias and catering businesses, stocking over 800 products including pantry staples, dairy, sauces and baking supplies from brands such as Nestle and Maggi, with warehouses in Quito and Ambato and 48 hour delivery.
Ecuador's largest shrimp and tilapia producer operates a domestic seafood distribution arm branded Puerto Priscila, running virtual stores and physical points of sale in Guayaquil and, since 2020, Quito, supplying shrimp, tilapia, squid and processed items such as nuggets and corviches to local customers.
Kun Products Baja California is an Ensenada seafood commercializer founded in 2006 as an importer of Chilean marine products, which built a receiving, processing, packaging and cold storage plant starting in 2018 and added Japanese oyster and Chione clam aquaculture in 2019, shipping frozen and fresh seafood nationwide by air and ground.
La Canasta is a Tijuana foodservice distributor founded in 1970 supplying meats, cheeses, groceries and disposables to restaurants, markets and processors across Baja California, holding official distributor status for brands including Banquet, Joseph Farms and Challenge cheeses.
Latina Cold Foods S.A. is an Argentine frozen food distributor operating since 1996 from Berutti 6390 in Loma Hermosa, Buenos Aires province. It supplies frozen potatoes, breaded items, vegetables, and seafood such as merluza medallions to the foodservice and wholesale trade across Capital Federal, Greater Buenos Aires, Lanus, and Avellaneda, and runs its own cold storage chamber and logistics center.
Importer and distributor of US-sourced mass consumption food products, founded in 1998 and headquartered at Calle Casto Rojas y F. Valencia No. 1737 in Cochabamba, supplying sauces, powdered seasonings, sodas, chocolates and canned goods to hotels, supermarkets and restaurants across six Bolivian departments.
Municipal wholesale market enterprise, Empresa Publica Metropolitana de Mercados Mayoristas, operating the Parque Comercial Mayorista at Avenida Teniente Hugo Ortiz and Ayapamba in southern Quito, where merchants and service providers trade bulk food and agricultural produce.
MercaSID, established July 1, 1937 as Sociedad Industrial Dominicana in Santo Domingo and part of Grupo SID, is a Dominican distribution company that markets and sells products to the institutional and foodservice market.
National wholesale distributor established in 1985, operating offices and warehouses in Santa Cruz, La Paz and Cochabamba plus a manufacturing plant in Santa Cruz's Parque Industrial with canning (350 to 400 L/h) and bottling (1,000 L/h) lines, distributing more than 60 partner food, beverage and consumer-goods brands to over 9,500 points of sale nationwide.
MT Food is a food importer and B2B distributor based in Pudahuel, Santiago, supplying restaurants and hotels with pre-fried potatoes, proteins, seafood, frozen fruit and vegetables and prepared meals, with same-day to 48-hour delivery across the Metropolitan Region.
Frozen precooked food distributor based on Av. Camino del Inca 1538 in Santiago de Surco, Lima, operating for more than 12 years and distributing precooked potatoes, frozen fruit and meat products from brands including Pomraco, Ritchie, Leduc, Ecofrost and El Frutero.
Fruit, vegetable and grain wholesaler and sorting center that has operated at the CEASA-RJ market in Iraja, Rio de Janeiro for over six decades, occupying pavilion 31, boxes 33 to 46, and supplying supermarkets, restaurants, hotels and industrial kitchens.
Fruit importer and wholesaler operating since 2004 as a permissionario at the CEAGESP wholesale terminal in Vila Leopoldina, Sao Paulo, box 71 of Pavilion HFB, with a documented import history of fresh fruit from South America.
Pesce Frutos de Mar is an Argentine fish and seafood distributor with over 20 years in operation, based at Nicaragua 5451 in Munro, Buenos Aires province. It imports fish from Ecuador, Spain, and Chile alongside domestic product, and operates its own fleet of refrigerated vehicles and 14 cold storage chambers to supply wholesale and retail buyers.
Fruit and vegetable importer and distributor founded in 2001, operating from Nave B at the UAM wholesale market in Montevideo, supplying supermarket chains with fresh, frozen and exotic produce to over 350 clients.
Frozen fish and seafood importer and distributor based in Osasco in the Sao Paulo metropolitan region, sourcing desalted cod, salmon, squid and shrimp from Europe, Asia and South America for restaurants, supermarket chains and wholesale resellers using its own delivery fleet.
Operator of CENADA, Costa Rica's first and largest wholesale produce market, located in Barreal de Heredia, providing wholesale trading facilities and price and volume tracking through the SIMM system for fruit and vegetable distribution to retailers and secondary markets nationwide.
Santiago Natural sources fresh fruit and vegetables each morning at the Lo Valledor wholesale market in Santiago and supplies restaurants, casinos, cafeterias and hotels in bulk sacks, boxes and nets, operating for over seven years from its Avenida Maipu location at the market.
Foodservice supply distributor based in Colonia Alvarado, Mixco, delivering poultry, seafood, beef, pork and bakery items to restaurants and institutional buyers, with an active order line and social media presence for ongoing operations.
Wholesale consumer-goods distributor founded in 1960 and based in San Pedro Sula, employing 500 people to distribute over 1,000 SKUs across roughly 50 brands of food, beverage, home care and personal care products to more than 22,000 points of sale nationwide.
Tu Abasto MX operates bodega X-166 inside the Central de Abasto de Iztapalapa in Mexico City, with more than 30 years supplying fruits, vegetables, fine herbs, gourmet and oriental produce items from a catalog of over 5,700 products to restaurants and hotels, with cold storage and delivery before 10am daily.
Wholesale fresh fruit and vegetable distributor based in Ate, Lima, supplying restaurants, retail markets, industrial food plants, mining camps and corporate dining facilities, and operating a sister sourcing brand, Tarmandina, for produce from the Tarma growing region.
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Common questions
Do distributors in Latin America cover the whole country or just certain cities?
Coverage is rarely uniform. Most distributors in Latin America build their networks around a handful of population and commercial centres, then extend outward through sub-distributors or transport partners for smaller towns and rural areas. Ask a provider directly which parts of Latin America they reach with their own fleet and warehousing, and which areas are served indirectly, since delivery reliability can differ sharply between the two.
What should I check before appointing a food distributor in Latin America?
Confirm that storage conditions match your product, since ambient, dry, and temperature-controlled handling all sit alongside each other in most networks in Latin America. Ask which retail and foodservice channels they actually service, what their minimum order expectations are, and how they manage returns or short-dated stock. A site visit or a reference check with an existing supplier is worth the time before committing.
Can one distributor in Latin America handle both retail and foodservice customers?
Some do, but many distributors in Latin America specialise in one channel, since retail and foodservice buyers order differently: retail favours case packs and scheduled deliveries, foodservice often wants smaller, more frequent drops. If you need both, ask a candidate distributor which channel is their core business in Latin America and whether the other is a genuine capability or a secondary add-on.
How do I check whether a provider listed for Latin America is actually reliable?
Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through Latin America recently rather than relying on a listing alone. Confirm the specific service you need, storage, freight forwarding, or customs handling, since a general logistics listing does not always mean deep capability in the one service that matters to your shipment. A provider willing to explain what happens when something goes wrong is a stronger signal than any credential.
Should I use a local provider in Latin America or an international one with a presence there?
It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in Latin America usually has deeper knowledge of ground conditions, relationships, and paperwork specific to that market, while an international provider offers a single point of contact and consistent processes if your goods also move through other countries. Many exporters combine the two: a local provider for physical handling in Latin America, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.
What should I ask a provider in Latin America before committing to work with them?
Ask what happens to your goods at each handover point, who is responsible if something is delayed or damaged, and what documentation they produce and when. Ask for a quote that breaks out individual charges rather than one bundled figure, so you can see what you are paying for at each stage. It is also worth asking directly how they have handled a shipment that ran into difficulty in Latin America, since that answer tells you more than a general pitch.
Sourcing distributors across the Americas
The distance between production regions and consumption centres is often the defining feature of distribution across the Americas, and distributors here are frequently organised around long-haul road and rail corridors rather than tight local clusters. A food distributor in Latin America may run its own fleet for primary routes while contracting smaller carriers for regional or last-mile delivery, so understanding where a provider's own capability ends and a subcontracted leg begins matters when you are assessing reliability. Border crossings within the region, and the customs and inspection processes that come with them, are a routine part of many supply chains even for domestic distribution, particularly where production and major population centres sit in different countries.
Retail concentration varies sharply by country, with some markets dominated by a small number of large chains and others still served heavily through independent grocers and traditional trade, and distributors typically build their capabilities around whichever structure is dominant in Latin America. Storage practice spans ambient, dry, and temperature-controlled facilities depending on the product category, and a distributor worth working with should be able to describe how each is handled rather than treating storage as a single undifferentiated service. Language is generally less fragmented within a single country here than in some other regions, but expectations around documentation, invoicing, and payment terms still differ enough between countries that assumptions carried over from elsewhere in the region are worth checking rather than relying on.
Trust and track record carry real weight when appointing a distributor in Latin America, since many operators have built their business over years of steady regional relationships rather than through formal tendering processes. Asking for references from existing suppliers, and being clear up front about minimum order volumes, delivery windows, and how returns or short-dated stock are handled, avoids most of the friction that surfaces later. Distributors that also offer market feedback, on pricing, shelf placement, or competitor activity, tend to be more valuable long-term partners than those that treat delivery as their only function.
How trade moves through Latin America
Latin America covers enormous geographic and climatic range, and its trade infrastructure follows that range rather than smoothing over it. Major agricultural exporting nations along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts operate substantial, modern port systems built specifically around grain, meat, produce, and other bulk and refrigerated agricultural exports, while inland and Andean economies depend more heavily on overland transport to reach a coastal port, often crossing a neighbouring country to do so. This means a meaningful share of the region's agricultural trade is genuinely transnational in its routing before it ever becomes international in its final destination, with goods produced in one country regularly exported through a port in another.
The region's trade geography is shaped by long north-south and coast-to-interior distances, mountain ranges that constrain overland routes to specific corridors, and a strong seasonal cycle tied to Southern Hemisphere harvest timing that runs opposite the Northern Hemisphere's. Refrigerated and ambient storage capacity is well developed around major export ports and agricultural processing zones, particularly for produce, meat, and grain destined for demanding export markets, but capacity thins noticeably away from those established corridors. Inland transport by road remains dominant across much of the region, and road quality, border crossing efficiency, and customs processing speed vary considerably between countries, which affects lead times more than shipping schedules do once cargo actually reaches a port.
Provider structures vary by country and by how export-oriented that country's agricultural sector is. The larger exporting nations support sizeable, experienced freight forwarding and cold-chain logistics sectors used to meeting demanding international food safety and traceability requirements, alongside major international shipping lines calling at their main ports directly. Elsewhere in the region, particularly in smaller or less export-focused economies, the provider base is thinner and more generalist, and cargo may need to move through a neighbouring country's more developed logistics sector to reach an international buyer at all. Family-owned transport and logistics operators remain common throughout the region and often carry deep, practical knowledge of specific agricultural corridors that larger multinational operators do not replicate.
Someone sourcing across several Latin American countries at once should pay close attention to where a shipment actually crosses into export infrastructure, since goods grown inland frequently travel a considerable distance overland, sometimes through a second country, before reaching a port. Import and export documentation, phytosanitary certification, and customs procedures differ meaningfully by country even where trade agreements exist between them, so a certificate or process accepted in one market cannot be assumed to satisfy another. Southern Hemisphere harvest timing also means this region's export peaks can run counter to those of Northern Hemisphere competitors, which matters for anyone planning supply continuity across sourcing regions rather than within Latin America alone. Language is largely shared across the Spanish-speaking countries, which eases coordination, but Brazil's Portuguese-language market and distinct regulatory system sit apart from that pattern and should be treated separately.
Building a sourcing plan across Latin America means recognising which countries function as export gateways for their neighbours, matching provider selection to how developed a given country's own export infrastructure actually is, and planning timelines around genuinely long overland legs rather than assuming port proximity for every origin point. It also means being specific about which coast, and which mountain corridor, a given origin actually depends on, since two countries that look close together on a map can in practice route their exports through entirely different ports and logistics networks.
Comparing distributors in Latin America
Fernable lists a substantial number of distributors serving Latin America, which turns the task from finding a provider into choosing the right one. With that many options in view, the temptation is to treat the list as a shortlist in itself. It isn't. A long list tells you the field is active, not which provider fits your product, your volume, or your customers. The real work starts after the list, when you decide which differences actually matter for the shipment in front of you and which are just different ways of describing the same capability.
Some differences are structural and worth weighing seriously. Route density into the retail, foodservice, and wholesale channels that matter to you varies a great deal even among providers who look similar on paper: one may have deep coverage into modern trade but thin reach into independent stores, another the reverse. Handling capability matters just as much, and covers more than temperature control: ambient, dry, and temperature-managed handling are all part of a distributor's core competence, and a provider strong in one is not automatically strong in the others. Minimum order volumes, delivery frequency, and how a provider handles returns or short-dated stock separate operators that otherwise sound alike. Compliance depth, meaning how a provider documents traceability, labelling, and any import paperwork relevant to Latin America, is worth checking directly rather than assuming from a general description. Other differences are mostly cosmetic: a polished profile or a longer service list does not by itself indicate better execution, and provider size alone tells you little about whether a distributor is a good match for a specific product category or order pattern.
The practical way to compare without drowning in the list is to work backwards from your own shipment first. Fix your product category, your target channel, and your expected order size, then use those as the filter rather than scanning every listed provider in turn. Shortlist a handful whose stated coverage and handling match that filter, and put the same questions to each of them: which channels they actually deliver into within Latin America, how they handle the specific storage conditions your product needs, what their minimum order and lead time look like, and what documentation they provide as standard. Ask for a reference account in a category close to yours if you can. Providers that answer these questions specifically, rather than in general terms, are usually the ones worth taking further, regardless of how they present on a directory listing.