Sales development · Latin America

Your commercial office in Latin America

We develop sales for Italian and European manufacturers across 21 countries: a local team that sells on your behalf, in Spanish and Portuguese, with the consistency of people on the ground every day.

We work with manufacturers. We become your sales department in the region: we find customers and distributors, manage negotiations and report everything back to you every month, with the discipline and numbers of a subsidiary.
We cover the whole region, from Mexico down.
Drag the globe to rotate it · Direct presence in 7 countries · Local partners in the rest · click a country for its key data
The numbers

A real structure
A team on the ground

We operate with an established local team: every year we invest in software and in top-level professionals, native Spanish and Portuguese speakers. We are the ones representing you on the ground, every day.

50+projects and Italian and European companies served since we started
12+industrial manufacturers served on an ongoing basis
21countries covered from Mexico down: 7 with direct presence, the rest through local partners
4ªedition of America Latina Day in Milan
What we do

One single goal:
your orders in LATAM

Strategy

Market analysis

A study of demand, the competitive landscape, distribution channels and pricing policies in your sector, country by country. Every figure backed by cited sources.

COREHours or days

Temporary Export Manager LATAM

A hands-on manager who sells on your behalf, in Spanish and Portuguese: a tailored number of hours or days per month, with monthly reporting. The fast, flexible way to enter the market.

COREYour subsidiary

LATAM Commercial Office

A small branch that is already up and running: a dedicated local team, phone line, CRM and back office managing customers, orders and distributors in your name, every day. The structure of a subsidiary, with the lightness of a monthly fee.

In the field

B2B Trade Missions

Agendas of qualified meetings with buyers and distributors, organized and accompanied by our local team.

Trade fairs

Fiera Pack LATAM

Before, during and after the fair: invitations, staffed stand, follow-up on every open negotiation.

Advisory

Proa Consulting

Market-entry strategy, partner search, institutional relations and export finance incentives.

NEWProa Operation

Your technical department, in your customer's time zone.

Italian and local engineers, on site and remote: commissioning, technical assistance, technical sales and specialist support alongside your customers. Buyers of machinery and plants choose suppliers who guarantee technical presence — now you can guarantee it too, with a structure that is already in place.

Discover Proa Operation
Your network, stronger

Already have a network in Latin America?

We work alongside your agents and distributors with the cadence of your own area manager: visits, targets, technical training and price-list control. Every piece of market intelligence flows straight back to you.

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Sales network managementWe visit, train and drive agents and distributors with the pace and standards of the parent company.
2
Brand and price list protectedPricing, positioning and image stay under your control, market by market.
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A clear fee, shared goalsWe work for your results: every customer, every contract and every margin remains entirely yours.
The countries of the region

21 countries, 21 different markets.
Where should you start?

Select a country to see its key indicators — market size, risk, business environment and opportunities for manufacturers.

Sources: SACE Export Map · World Bank · Transparency International (CPI) · OEC. Data 2023–2024.

Fairs & events

Exhibiting in Latin America?

Make it pay off: with the Fiera Pack LATAM you arrive at your stand with a full meeting agenda and leave with the follow-up already under way. These are the fairs we cover in the region.

Register
6 November 2026 · Milan

America Latina Day

Hotel Meliá, Milan — 4th edition
Proa Latam's own event
Reserve your seat
We'll be there
May 2027 · Monterrey

FABTECH México

Cintermex, Monterrey
Welding and sheet metal working
Meet us at the fair
We'll be there
June 2027 · Antofagasta

Exponor

Antofagasta, Chile
Mining and machinery
Meet us at the fair
We'll be there
November 2027 · Bogotá

Andina Pack

Corferias, Bogotá
Packaging and processing
Meet us at the fair
Concluded
June 2026 · CDMX

Expo Pack México

Expo Santa Fe, Mexico City
Packaging and containers
Request the post-fair report
Concluded
May 2026 · São Paulo

FEIMEC

São Paulo Expo, Brazil
Machine tools and automation
Request the post-fair report
FAIRSFiera Pack LATAM

Arrive at the fair with a full agenda.

Targeted buyer invitations, a stand staffed in the local language, an agenda of qualified meetings and follow-up on every negotiation in the weeks that follow. The fair becomes an investment that keeps paying off long after the stand comes down.

Request the Fiera Pack
Track record

Industrial B2B is our home turf.

These are the sectors we serve on an ongoing basis. Want to know what we have done in your industry? Let's discuss it on a call.

Your sector? Let's talk →
LIFTING AND AGRITECH
INDUSTRIAL WELDING
PACKAGING AND CONTAINERS
VALVES AND HVAC/PLUMBING
MACHINE TOOLS
INDUSTRIAL FILTRATION
CONSTRUCTION AND PRECAST
PLANTS AND AUTOMATION
Case study · Mexico

A machinery manufacturer enters the nearshoring market

14

qualified meetings with buyers and distributors in the first 90 days

Case study · Brazil

A packaging manufacturer opens the São Paulo market

sales pipeline after the first B2B trade mission

Case study · Southern Cone

A welding SME covers four countries from a single office

4

markets managed on an ongoing basis from the Montevideo office

Partnerships
that matter

We work alongside leading institutions, banks and trade fairs, in Italy and across the region: the same doors we open for our clients.

Confindustria Emilia Buongiorno San Paolo Ebury Expo Pack México Feria de la Construcción Uruguay Made in Italy
Proa Legal

Your legal coverage, already in place across the region.

Partner law firms in every country we cover: distribution agreements, trademark protection, debt recovery and customs matters.

Talk to Proa Legal
Insights

Understand Latin America
before you sell

4th edition · Hotel Meliá Milano
America Latina Day

6 NOVEMBER 2026

The event promoting economic and business relations between Italy and Latin America: it fosters networking, gets ideas moving and strengthens ties, opening doors to the opportunities of this vibrant region.

Buy tickets →

Follow the event on LinkedIn →

Strategic international networking opportunities

Connect with entrepreneurs, institutions and decision makers active in the markets between Italy and Latin America.

About us

Italians and Latin Americans.
Our people in the field

Antonino Di Marco

"Latin America doesn't open up through an email sent from Italy. It opens up by being there: speaking the language, visiting customers, coming back as often as it takes. That's what we do every day, for the companies that choose us."

Antonino Di Marco

Founder · adimarco@proalatam.com

Contact

Tell us where
you want to grow

We reply within one business day.

Email
hola@proalatam.com
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Offices

Montevideo (HQ) · Mexico City · Jundiaí (SP)

Local partners

Bogotá · Santiago · Asunción

Quanto vale il vostro prodotto in LATAM?Il team risponde entro 24 ore lavorative
👋 Inviateci i codici doganali (HS) dei vostri prodotti: vi restituiamo gratuitamente una prima analisi dei mercati LATAM — dove c'è domanda, quanto importa ogni paese e da quali concorrenti. Molti dei nostri progetti migliori sono partiti proprio da qui.

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