Built to scale
Expand into Latin Americaand beyond.
Brands and partners
The Starting Point
Scaling businesses through
a powerful ecosystem.
Brands
Global brands
Want to grow beyond their current borders, without shifting their focus on the main markets.
Operators
Local operators
They have structure, route to market and team. What they need: powerful brands that move the market.
Capital
Capital
Assets with real returns, underwritten by people who understand the categories and the business.
Executives
Senior executives
Decades of experience that runs from strategy all the way down to the consumer’s hands.
The cost of finding the path, carrying the risk and running the operation is what stops brands from entering or expanding — in Brazil, across Latin America and beyond.
The bridge is not one-way.
Same work, same network, multiple directions — and most of our conversations start on one side and end up on both.
Into the region →
A global brand lands in Latin America
You keep the brand. We pick the operator, negotiate the licence, joint venture or business unit, and stay accountable for how it’s run — while you keep your capital and your team where they are.
This is how Liquid Death came into Brazil and Central America.
← Out of the region
A Latin brand goes to the world
The region builds excellent brands that stop at the border because nobody knows who to sell them to. We open the same doors in reverse: the operator, the distributor and the strategic partner abroad.
Our partners spent decades on the other side of that table — at Coca-Cola and Estrella Galicia.
The Model
We know who operates.
Which distributor really covers the northeast. Which family group answers the phone. Which co-packer holds the quality standard a global brand will accept. Twenty+ years of running businesses here is the only way to know that — and it is the part a new entrant cannot buy.
We don’toperate.
We choose who operates, we stay accountable for the choice, and we hold a share of the result. Where a category has no operator yet, we can build the first route ourselves — then hand it over and keep the equity.
We don’tsell hours.
The price is participation, not a timesheet. If the business doesn’t happen, we don’t get paid — which is exactly why we only take deals we believe will happen.
We’re nota consultancy.
A consultancy delivers a recommendation and leaves. We deliver the meeting, the counterparty, the structure — and then stay in the deal.
Rio Global Brands
Local heritage.
Global reach.
Four lines of work,
one network behind them.
Brands
We take brands across borders, both ways
Licence, joint venture or a business unit inside an existing company.
We design the structure that fits the brand, the operation and local compliance — and hold a share of what gets built.
Credit
We lend to the industry we came from
Underwritten by people who have run the category.
Working capital for consumer goods companies that need to recover, to grow, or simply not to break. Risk read by operators, not by spreadsheets.
Access
We put the decision makers in the same room
The brand owner to the right operator. The investor to the right asset.
We connect companies to the stakeholders who can actually move a decision — with speed and judgement at every step.
Events & education
We turn operating experience into content
Formats we own, and the operating history behind them.
Events, courses, talks and curated gatherings where we share what we have run. Learning that turns into lasting relationships.
Each one feeds the next. All of them come back to access.
We don’t own a factory or a fleet.
We own the relationships.
What we don’t carry
- Plants, fleet or inventory
- An operation to run day to day
- Capital locked into physical assets
- A large team to scale revenue
What we do carry
- Global brands that trust us
- Local operators we already know
- Relationships built over decades of operating
- A stake in every business we create
The balance sheet is light. The assets are heavy.
Our Brands and Key Partners
Our Brands and Key Partners
Liquid Death
The fastest-growing beverage brand in the US, now entering Latin America with us.
Mondial de la Bière
The largest beer festival in Latin America — 40,000 people over four days at Pier Mauá — growing into a Beer Ecosystem Platform.
Work With Us
For global brands
Come into the region
Sell across Latin America through an operator we’ve already vetted, without opening a company here.
For regional brands
Take your brand out
You’ve won in Brazil and stopped at the border. We open the same doors in reverse — operator, distributor, strategic partner abroad.
For operators
Add a brand
You already have the structure and the route to market. We bring the brand your customers are asking for.
For capital
Back the deal
Consumer-goods opportunities originated and underwritten by people who have run the category.
For executives and operators
Build Rio with us
Every deal we sign needs someone senior to run it. We’re assembling the group of executives and operators who take these brands to market — as partners in the business, not as headcount. If you’ve run a category, a country or a route to market, this is the door.
Contact
Twenty minutes is enough to know
if there’s a business in the making.
Tell us which side of the bridge you’re on. We’ll tell you who is waiting on the other side.
Built to Scale
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