# Mexico Company Finder (DENUE, legal entities, English labels) (`latsouth/mexico-company-finder`) Actor

Search 846k Mexican legal entities from INEGI DENUE by SCIAN industry, state, municipality and employee size. English labels, +52 phones, websites and corporate e-mails. Public sector and natural persons filtered out. Fuente: INEGI.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/latsouth/mexico-company-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [LatSouth Data](https://apify.com/latsouth) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 company results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Mexico Company Finder: DENUE B2B database of Mexican companies, in English

**By [LatSouth](https://latsouth.com).** Search **846,778 Mexican legal entities** (private sector, DENUE edition
05/2026) from **INEGI's DENUE**, the national business directory, by industry, state, municipality and employee size.
Get clean records with **English industry labels**, normalized **+52 phones**, **websites** and **corporate e-mails**.
Legal entities only, public sector filtered out, personal contacts never returned. No DENUE token, no bulk download,
no Spanish codebook. Country overview and coverage: <https://latsouth.com/data/mexico/>.

*Fuente: INEGI, Directorio Estadístico Nacional de Unidades Económicas (DENUE) 05/2026.* Data transformed
(cleaned, normalized, English labels added); this is not an official INEGI product. Terms:
<https://www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/terminos.html>.

### Quick facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Rows | 846,778 establishments of private legal entities (449,124 distinct legal names) out of 6,138,075 in DENUE |
| Data as of | 2026-05-20 (DENUE 05/2026; INEGI refreshes roughly yearly) |
| Price | US$0.003 per company returned: **1,000 companies = US$3**; 10 = US$0.03 |
| Typical run | 5-15 s for a filtered query of up to a few thousand rows |
| Company data only | No natural persons (*personas físicas*), no personal e-mails or names |

### Who it's for

- **Sales and SDR teams** entering Mexico: "IT consultancies in Mexico City with 11+ employees and a
  website", "food manufacturers in Jalisco and Nuevo León".
- **Market sizing / TAM**: every run reports `total_matching` (all establishments that match), even if you
  only pull a sample.
- **Enrichment**: start from a SCIAN segment and feed the list to your enrichment waterfall or CRM.

### What makes it B2B

DENUE lists ~6.1 million establishments, and most of them are corner shops run by natural persons. This
actor turns it into a company list:

| | DENUE as published | This actor |
|---|---|---|
| Who | Every establishment, ~79% of them natural persons (no legal name) | **Legal entities only**, always (no switch: company data only) |
| Public sector | Mixed in (schools, offices, hospitals) | **Excluded** by default (`exclude_public_sector`) |
| Industry | SCIAN code + Spanish label | Spanish class label + **English** subsector and sector labels |
| Size | Text bracket ("11 a 30 personas") | Bracket filter + `min_employees` + numeric bounds |
| Phone | Free text | `+52` + 10 digits, junk dropped |
| E-mail | Free text, typos, Gmail/Hotmail/Prodigy | Validated, lower-cased; freemail/ISP never used as a website |
| Website | Free text (`WWW.X.COM`, Facebook pages) | `https://` URL; social pages split into `social_url`; `website_guess` from corporate e-mail domain |
| Branches | One row per establishment | Optional `one_per_company` (largest establishment per legal name) |

### Website filter

| Filter | Keeps an establishment when |
|---|---|
| none (default) | always; web fields may be empty |
| `only_with_website` | it has a **`website`** declared to INEGI **or** a **`website_guess`** (the domain of its corporate e-mail) |

Neither field is checked over HTTP in this actor (there is no "verified website" filter for Mexico yet), so a site may
be dead or parked. Free-mail, ISP, hosting, social-network and placeholder domains (gmail.com, prodigy.net.mx,
contacto.com, wix.com, …) never count as a website: they are blanked in `website`, `website_domain`, `website_guess`
and `email_domain` at output time. Social pages are in `social_url`.

### Input examples

**1. Professional services firms in Mexico City with an e-mail (the prefilled example)** (sector 54 = legal,
accounting, engineering, IT consulting, marketing…)

```json
{
  "scian_sectors": ["54"],
  "states": ["09"],
  "only_with_email": true,
  "max_results": 500
}
```

**2. Software and IT services (SCIAN 5415 + 5182) with 11+ employees and a website, one row per company**

```json
{
  "scian_codes": ["5415", "5182"],
  "min_employees": 11,
  "only_with_website": true,
  "one_per_company": true
}
```

**3. Plastics manufacturers in Nuevo León and Jalisco added to DENUE since 2024**

```json
{
  "scian_sectors": ["31-33"],
  "states": ["NLE", "Jalisco"],
  "keyword": "plastic",
  "registered_after": "2024-01-01",
  "sort_by": "registration_date_desc"
}
```

| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| `scian_sectors` | SCIAN 2-digit sectors (`54`, `31-33`, `48-49`…; `31`/`32`/`33` also accepted) |
| `scian_codes` | 6-digit SCIAN classes or 3-5 digit prefixes |
| `keyword` | Substring in the English/Spanish activity label or the legal/trade name |
| `states` | `01`-`32`, ISO codes (`CMX`, `JAL`, `NLE`, `MX-CMX`) or names (`Ciudad de México`, `CDMX`). Selecting states makes runs faster |
| `municipalities` | Municipality / alcaldía names, accents optional |
| `size_brackets` | `0-5`, `6-10`, `11-30`, `31-50`, `51-100`, `101-250`, `251+` |
| `min_employees` | Whole bracket at or above N |
| `exclude_public_sector` | Default **true** |
| `only_with_website` | See "Website filter" above |
| `only_with_email`, `only_with_phone` | Contact completeness |
| `registered_after` | Month the establishment entered DENUE |
| `one_per_company` | Keep the largest establishment per legal name |
| `sort_by` | `size_desc` (default), `registration_date_desc`, `registration_date_asc`, `denue_id` |
| `max_results` | Default 1,000 via API (the Console form is prefilled with 10) |

### Output fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `denue_id`, `clee` | INEGI establishment id and CLEE key (RFC is not published by DENUE) |
| `legal_name`, `trade_name` | Razón social (INEGI usually strips "S.A. de C.V.") and establishment name |
| `is_legal_entity`, `legal_entity_basis` | Always `true`; which rule confirmed it is a company |
| `is_public_sector` | `false` unless you turn `exclude_public_sector` off |
| `scian_code`, `scian_label_es`, `scian_label_en` | SCIAN 2023 class, official Spanish label, English subsector label |
| `scian_sector`, `scian_subsector` (+ `_label_en`) | Sector and subsector codes with English labels |
| `size_bracket`, `size_bracket_en`, `employees_min`, `employees_max` | INEGI personnel bracket, as text and numbers |
| `establishment_type` | Fixed, semi-fixed, … |
| `state`, `state_iso`, `state_name`, `municipality_code`, `municipality`, `locality`, `address`, `zip`, `latitude`, `longitude` | Location |
| `phone`, `email` | Establishment contact (`+52` + 10 digits; e-mail validated, lower-cased) |
| `email_domain` | Domain of that e-mail; null for free-mail/ISP/placeholder domains |
| `website`, `website_domain`, `social_url` | Site declared to INEGI, its domain, social page |
| `website_guess` | `https://` + corporate e-mail domain, unchecked |
| `registration_date` | Month the establishment entered DENUE |
| `data_as_of`, `source` | Edition date and the INEGI credit line |

Illustrative row. The company, names and contacts below are made up.

```json
{
  "denue_id": 1234567,
  "clee": "09016541510000011000000000U0",
  "legal_name": "EJEMPLO SOLUCIONES DIGITALES",
  "trade_name": "EJEMPLO TECH",
  "is_legal_entity": true,
  "legal_entity_basis": "registered_legal_name",
  "is_public_sector": false,
  "scian_code": "541510",
  "scian_label_es": "Servicios de diseño de sistemas de cómputo y servicios relacionados",
  "scian_label_en": "Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services",
  "scian_sector": "54",
  "scian_sector_label_en": "Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services",
  "scian_subsector": "541",
  "scian_subsector_label_en": "Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services",
  "size_bracket": "11 a 30 personas",
  "size_bracket_en": "11-30",
  "employees_min": 11,
  "employees_max": 30,
  "establishment_type": "fixed",
  "state": "09",
  "state_iso": "MX-CMX",
  "state_name": "Ciudad de México",
  "municipality_code": "09016",
  "municipality": "Miguel Hidalgo",
  "locality": "Miguel Hidalgo",
  "address": "CALLE EJEMPLO 100 INT 5, COLONIA GRANADA",
  "zip": "11520",
  "latitude": 19.4401,
  "longitude": -99.2001,
  "phone": "+525500000000",
  "email": "contacto@ejemplotech.mx",
  "email_domain": "ejemplotech.mx",
  "website": "https://www.ejemplotech.mx",
  "website_domain": "ejemplotech.mx",
  "social_url": null,
  "website_guess": "https://ejemplotech.mx",
  "registration_date": "2019-11-01",
  "data_as_of": "2026-05-20",
  "source": "Fuente: INEGI, Directorio Estadistico Nacional de Unidades Economicas (DENUE) 05/2026, actualizado 2026-05-20. Datos transformados (limpieza, normalizacion, etiquetas en ingles); no es un producto oficial del INEGI."
}
```

The run's key-value store `OUTPUT` record holds `total_matching`, `pushed`, and whether the run stopped
at your spending limit.

### Coverage (DENUE 05/2026)

| Universe | Establishments |
|---|---:|
| All DENUE establishments | 6,138,075 |
| Legal entities, private sector (default) | 846,778 |
| … distinct companies (`one_per_company`) | 449,124 |
| … with 6+ employees | 369,677 |
| … with an e-mail | 411,683 |
| … with a website or website guess | 358,667 |
| Professional services (54) in Mexico City with an e-mail | 3,671 |
| Software/IT (5415, 5182), 11+ employees, with website, one per company | 880 |

### Field notes

- **Legal entities.** INEGI publishes the legal name (*razón social*) only for legal entities and usually
  strips the corporate suffix (S.A. de C.V., S. de R.L., …). `is_legal_entity` is true when the name carries a
  legal form, or when a legal name is present and doesn't look like a person's name or a placeholder.
  `legal_entity_basis` says which rule fired (every output row carries it). Rows with a person-like name are
  treated as uncertain and never returned.
- **`website`** is what the establishment declared to INEGI. **`website_guess`** is `https://` plus the
  corporate e-mail domain; free-mail, Mexican ISP (Prodigy/Telmex, Axtel, izzi, Megacable…), placeholder
  (contacto.com, correo.com.mx, …) and typo domains are never used. Neither is verified by an HTTP request, so check
  before using at scale.
- **`scian_label_en`** is the English label of the 3-digit subsector; `scian_label_es` is INEGI's official
  6-digit class label. SCIAN is Mexico's NAICS; codes are SCIAN 2023.
- **`registration_date`** is the month the establishment entered DENUE, not its incorporation date.
- **Rows are establishments.** A chain appears once per branch; use `one_per_company` to collapse.

### Limitations

- **Rows are establishments**, not companies: a retail chain has one row per store. `one_per_company` collapses by
  legal name (exact match).
- About 3% of the legal names that pass the legal-entity rules may still be a person's business; INEGI removes the
  corporate suffix, so this can't be fully separated.
- No RFC (tax id) in DENUE. No revenue; size is the INEGI personnel bracket of the establishment.
- DENUE is refreshed roughly once a year; some contacts are older than the edition date.
- Websites are not HTTP-verified in this actor.

### Data freshness

DENUE edition **05/2026** (published 2026-05-20; Sinaloa corrected 2026-07-01). INEGI refreshes DENUE
roughly yearly, mostly for large establishments. Every row carries `data_as_of` and `source`; the run log and
the `OUTPUT` record also show the `data_as_of` of the release that was queried.

### Privacy

Company data only. Establishments of natural persons (*personas físicas*) and rows that are not a confirmed
legal entity are never returned, and there is no input to change that (`legal_entities_only: false` is rejected
with an error). You are responsible for using the data lawfully (LFPDPPP, anti-spam rules,
opt-out requests).

### Pricing

Pay per event:

| Event | When it's charged | Price |
|---|---|---|
| `company-result` | Once per company row returned in the dataset | **US$0.003** (1,000 companies = US$3) |

The platform compute is included. Set a **maximum cost per run** and the actor stops pushing rows when it's reached;
you only pay for rows you receive. Need the full file, a custom segment or a refresh? See
<https://latsouth.com/products/> and <https://latsouth.com/pricing/>.

### More from LatSouth

- [LATAM Company Finder](https://apify.com/latsouth/latam-company-finder): Mexico plus Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru,
  Argentina and Ecuador in one schema (ISIC Rev.4 industries).
- [Brazil Company Finder](https://apify.com/latsouth/brazil-company-finder): 10.9M active CNPJ establishments with
  HTTP-verified websites.
- Methodology: <https://latsouth.com/methodology/> · Compliance: <https://latsouth.com/compliance/>

### FAQ

**Is this the official DENUE?** It is built from INEGI's open bulk download, cleaned and enriched. It is
not an INEGI product and INEGI does not endorse it.

**Why do some big companies have no legal name?** Some establishments are registered by INEGI without
*razón social*. Without it we can't tell a company from a natural person, so those rows are not returned.

**Can I look up an RFC?** DENUE does not publish RFCs.

**Questions, bugs, custom extracts?** hello@latsouth.com, or open an issue on this actor's Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `scian_sectors` (type: `array`):

SCIAN sectors of the establishment's main activity (SCIAN is Mexico's version of NAICS). Combined with industry codes using OR.

## `scian_codes` (type: `array`):

6-digit SCIAN classes (e.g. 541510 = computer systems design services) or shorter prefixes (3 digits = subsector, 4 = industry group, 5 = industry).

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Case- and accent-insensitive substring searched in the English and Spanish activity labels and in the legal and trade names (e.g. software, logistics, clinica).

## `states` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all of Mexico. Selecting states makes runs faster.

## `municipalities` (type: `array`):

Municipality names as in DENUE, accents optional (e.g. Monterrey, Zapopan, Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juarez).

## `size_brackets` (type: `array`):

INEGI personnel brackets (personal ocupado) of the establishment. Leave empty for all sizes.

## `min_employees` (type: `integer`):

Keep establishments whose whole size bracket is at or above this number (e.g. 11 keeps 11-30 and larger).

## `exclude_public_sector` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out government offices, public schools and hospitals, and other public-sector establishments.

## `only_with_website` (type: `boolean`):

Keep establishments with a `website` declared to INEGI OR a `website_guess` (the domain of a corporate e-mail, NOT checked over HTTP). Free-mail, ISP and placeholder domains (gmail, prodigy.net.mx, contacto.com, ...) never count. Mexico has no HTTP-verified website filter yet.

## `only_with_email` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only establishments with a syntactically valid e-mail.

## `only_with_phone` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only establishments with a valid +52 phone number.

## `registered_after` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. DENUE records the month the establishment entered the directory (a proxy for new businesses).

## `one_per_company` (type: `boolean`):

Collapse branches: keep only the largest establishment of each legal name.

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

Order of results. Largest first is a good default for B2B prospecting.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

You pay per company returned (US$0.003 each: 1,000 companies = US$3). The run also stops at your spending limit. Default 1,000 when called via API without this field.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "scian_sectors": [
    "54"
  ],
  "states": [
    "09"
  ],
  "exclude_public_sector": true,
  "only_with_website": false,
  "only_with_email": false,
  "only_with_phone": false,
  "one_per_company": false,
  "sort_by": "size_desc",
  "max_results": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `companies` (type: `string`):

Matching companies, one item per row. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML via the dataset API.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts, applied filters, data_as_of and whether the run stopped at the buyer's budget cap.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "scian_sectors": [
        "54"
    ],
    "states": [
        "09"
    ],
    "max_results": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("latsouth/mexico-company-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "scian_sectors": ["54"],
    "states": ["09"],
    "max_results": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("latsouth/mexico-company-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "scian_sectors": [
    "54"
  ],
  "states": [
    "09"
  ],
  "max_results": 10
}' |
apify call latsouth/mexico-company-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,latsouth/mexico-company-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/5gWSsXJb80XjipH3S/builds/7Wvn0g0kWSqM23bJU/openapi.json