Helping clients succeed in Latin America for over 30 years

Before there was AMI, there was InfoMex, which kicked off in the early ’90s in Mexico City. John Price, a native of Canada who was actually born in Peru (it’s a long story), launched InfoMex with a friend, spending 18-hour days trying to win clients while also tracking down hard-to-find data on Mexican businesses in the financial and consumer sectors.

The early clients like InfoMex’s work enough that referrals led to clients interested in market research projects on South America, so InfoMex became InfoAmericas.

InfoAmericas expanded to have an office in Brazil and another in Miami, and by 2005, it had completed 1,000 research projects. Kroll bought InfoAmericas in 2007 but by 2011, the consultants that built InfoAmericas into a success regrouped to form AMI.

Along the way, AMI has delved into a variety of strategic topics in a variety of industries in Latin America, producing LatAm-focused market research studies in sectors like payments, logistics, mining, energy, insurance, industrial, consumer goods, consumer services and ecommerce, education, healthcare and more.

Building a Massive Network of Experts

But AMI’s work wasn’t just surveying customers, tracking figures, or calculating CAGR. In fact, even the simplest data points aren’t easily available in Latin American countries—or they are hopelessly outdated. From its inception in the early 1990s, AMI’s team did the detective work of uncovering experts in dozens of areas within industries to interview them and get a deeper sense of the on-the-ground realities and where to find reliable numbers. We also hired top-notch consultants in countries to do field research, then rigorously cross-checked what we found. It’s an exhaustive process but necessary in Latin America—even in the 21st century with all of the tech advances.

These days, AMI has more than 1,000 subject matter experts for Latin America at its disposal.

Full Market Intelligence/Research Coverage for Latin America and the Caribbean