The news malls of Mexico City

by | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog

I’m usually looking for little microcosms of news to help me better express what I mean when I speak on aspects of the Mexican business landscape. Well here is one I found today, published by one of my favorite magazine groups, Expansion, through its...

Energy Reforms and Manufacturing in Mexico

by | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog

Lots of perspectives and commentary swirls around the 2013 Energy Reforms in Mexico. The Reforms permit more private participation in the production of both Oil and Gas and Electricity, plus in some cases greater downstream support by the private sector. The bylaws...

Mexico Opportunities: Security and Defense

by | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog

UPDATED 2020: Neighbors produced an updated report in September 2020 for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership on opportunities in Mexico in Defense and Security. See it here. Ask us for our other industry reports! Both US and Mexican governments recognize...

Customs / Aduanas / Freight Forwarding

by | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog

We’ve only interacted with Mexican customs (aside from personally at the airport) through brokers… FedEx’s brokers, UPS’s brokers, Mailboxes Etc’s brokers, the freight forwarder Expeditors, but also some independent brokers. In terms of getting our shipments through,...

VA Conference on World Trade

by | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog

We just came back from a week in Virginia to attend VEDP’s Conference on World Trade, and meet with lots of companies interested in Mexico! Neighbors met with around 20 companies over three days who provide products and services in IT, chemistry and biochem,...

VEDP, now an ALAS member

by | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog

Our largest client, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, has joined the Mexico chapter of ALAS, the Asociación Latinamericana de Seguridad. ALAS is a Latin America-wide security industry association with members representing electronic...