{"id":16527,"date":"2015-06-13T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/?page_id=16527"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:40:23","slug":"investigacion-de-mercado-hispano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/es\/cobertura\/latin-america\/investigacion-de-mercado-de-america-latina\/investigacion-de-mercado-hispano\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Market Research for Industrial Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sis-hero-preserved sis-injected-hero\" data-sis-injected=\"hero\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Investigaci\u00f3n de mercado hispano<\/h1>\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-7ecd1b15\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1456\" height=\"816\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-7ecd1b15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Non-profit-4.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Non-profit-4.jpg 1456w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Non-profit-4-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Non-profit-4-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Non-profit-4-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Non-profit-4-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" alt=\"Investigaci\u00f3n y estrategia de mercado internacional de SIS\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">El mercado hispano emergente<\/h2>\n<p>No sorprende que uno de los mercados emergentes m\u00e1s grandes del mundo pertenezca hoy a una floreciente poblaci\u00f3n hispana. En los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, el poder adquisitivo de este grupo ha crecido espectacularmente y seguir\u00e1 haci\u00e9ndolo. El aumento de la riqueza y las oportunidades educativas posicionan al segundo grupo \u00e9tnico m\u00e1s grande de Estados Unidos como uno destinado a tener un impacto de mercado poderoso y duradero.<\/p>\n<p>Fuera de Estados Unidos, varias naciones latinoamericanas est\u00e1n experimentando una recuperaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica significativa. Las mejores ventas minoristas y el aumento de la producci\u00f3n de bienes de consumo han tenido un efecto dram\u00e1ticamente positivo en las perspectivas econ\u00f3micas de los mercados hispanos.<\/p>\n<p>Hist\u00f3ricamente, los intereses empresariales han prestado mucha atenci\u00f3n al lenguaje mismo como medio para penetrar en estos mercados deseables. Los hispanos estadounidenses prefieren ver televisi\u00f3n donde se habla predominantemente espa\u00f1ol. Adem\u00e1s, la mayor\u00eda de los hispanos prefieren hablar espa\u00f1ol en sus propios hogares.<\/p>\n<p>A diferencia de la televisi\u00f3n inglesa, que est\u00e1 disponible en varios canales, la televisi\u00f3n de habla hispana se concentra en menos canales y, por lo tanto, los espectadores hispanos la ven con mayor intensidad.<\/p>\n<p>Esto hace que los medios de habla hispana sean una opci\u00f3n eficaz para los anunciantes que intentan comunicarse con este creciente mercado objetivo. Como m\u00ednimo, las empresas dise\u00f1ar\u00e1n mensajes personalizados para estos medios de comunicaci\u00f3n de habla hispana, adem\u00e1s de los anuncios tradicionales en ingl\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Los consumidores hispanos tienden a ser m\u00e1s fieles a determinadas marcas en algunos casos que sus hom\u00f3logos de otras etnias. No compran con tanta frecuencia, pero cuando se aventuran a salir, los hispanos gastan m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Tambi\u00e9n visitan m\u00e1s restaurantes de comida r\u00e1pida y, cuando lo hacen, tienen ni\u00f1os a cuestas, lo que en \u00faltima instancia afecta las decisiones de compra de los padres. Hist\u00f3ricamente, los hispanos compran m\u00e1s bebidas, lo que hace que las proyecciones a largo plazo de las ventas de bebidas en los pr\u00f3ximos a\u00f1os sean m\u00e1s altas para el mercado hispano que para los consumidores cauc\u00e1sicos. Tanto los m\u00e9todos de investigaci\u00f3n cualitativos como cuantitativos pueden descubrir \u00e1reas de oportunidad para mejorar el rendimiento de su negocio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1>Hispanic Market Research: How Industrial Leaders Capture the Fastest-Growing Buyer Segment<\/h1>\n<p>Hispanic buying power in the United States now exceeds the GDP of most G20 nations. For Fortune 500 industrial firms, this segment shapes labor markets, distributor networks, end-user preferences, and procurement decisions across the supply chain. The firms reading this segment correctly are gaining share. The rest are pricing to a market that no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic Market Research has matured beyond consumer packaged goods. It now drives industrial product positioning, dealer network design, B2B channel strategy, and aftermarket revenue strategy across construction, agriculture, automotive components, building materials, and commercial fleet. The opportunity sits in segments most industrial firms still treat as monolithic.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Hispanic Market Research Now Sits Inside Industrial Strategy<\/h2>\n<p>Hispanic-owned businesses are the fastest-growing segment of the US small and medium business population. They concentrate in construction, transportation, food manufacturing, and field services. These are direct buyers of industrial equipment, building products, commercial vehicles, and MRO supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The decision unit looks different. Founder-operators run procurement personally. Brand loyalty forms early and holds across decades. Spanish-language technical documentation, bilingual dealer staff, and warranty terms communicated in plain Spanish change win rates in supplier qualification audits. Industrial firms that built distributor networks for an English-first SMB buyer face a structural mismatch.<\/p>\n<p>The acculturation spectrum matters more than national origin. A second-generation Mexican-American contractor in Houston buys differently than a first-generation Cuban-American fleet operator in Miami, and both differ from a Dominican-American building products distributor in the Northeast. Treating &#8220;Hispanic&#8221; as one segment in a bill of materials decision wastes the research budget.<\/p>\n<h2>The Segmentation That Drives Industrial Win Rates<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#216896;border-left:3px solid #216896;padding-left:0.5rem;\">SIS International Research&#8217;s qualitative work across Hispanic consumer and SMB segments in Texas, Florida, and California consistently shows that language preference, generation, and country of origin produce sharper predictive segmentation than income or geography alone.<\/span> The implication for industrial marketers is direct. A single Spanish-language campaign aimed at &#8220;the Hispanic contractor&#8221; underperforms three targeted programs built around acculturation tier and trade vertical.<\/p>\n<p>Four variables carry most of the explanatory power in industrial Hispanic Market Research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Language dominance at work versus home.<\/strong> Spanish-dominant on the job site changes spec sheet design, training video format, and warranty claim handling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generation in the US.<\/strong> First-generation buyers weight relationship and referral. Second and third generation weight digital reviews and total cost of ownership data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Country of origin.<\/strong> Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Salvadoran, Colombian, and Venezuelan buyers carry distinct trust hierarchies and brand histories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trade vertical.<\/strong> Roofing, HVAC, landscaping, trucking, food service, and light manufacturing each have their own information channels and dealer relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Methodologies That Produce Decision-Grade Evidence<\/h2>\n<p>Hispanic Market Research at the industrial level requires methodology choices most generalist firms get wrong. Telephone panels under-represent the Spanish-dominant SMB owner. Online sample skews toward second-generation and English-dominant respondents. The result is a dataset that confirms what the marketing team already believed.<\/p>\n<p>The methodologies that produce decision-grade evidence look different. In-language B2B expert interviews with founder-operators, conducted by bilingual moderators who understand trade-specific vocabulary, surface procurement logic that surveys miss. Ethnographic research at job sites and distributor counters reveals how product selection actually happens. Focus groups recruited through community-rooted networks rather than national panels capture the Spanish-dominant tier that drives early adoption in trades like roofing and concrete.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#216896;border-left:3px solid #216896;padding-left:0.5rem;\">In B2B expert interviews SIS has conducted with Hispanic SMB owners across the construction and food sectors, the most consistent finding is that initial brand selection happens through trade peer referral, and switching costs are anchored in personal relationships with dealer counter staff rather than in product specification.<\/span> This reframes the dealer network optimization problem. The asset on the counter is the bilingual person, not the inventory.<\/p>\n<h2>Where the Industrial Opportunity Concentrates<\/h2>\n<p>Three categories show disproportionate upside for firms that invest in Hispanic Market Research with depth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building products and construction equipment.<\/strong> Hispanic-owned construction firms drive a large share of residential framing, roofing, drywall, and finish trades. Manufacturers of fasteners, power tools, jobsite equipment, and PPE that build Spanish-language technical training and bilingual warranty support gain share against incumbents who default to English-first dealer enablement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commercial fleet and aftermarket.<\/strong> Hispanic-owned trucking and last-mile delivery operators concentrate in Texas, Florida, California, and the Mid-Atlantic. Their fleet electrification TCO calculations, parts sourcing patterns, and service network preferences differ from the broader SMB fleet segment. Aftermarket revenue strategy for tire, lubricant, and replacement parts manufacturers underperforms when this segment is bundled into general SMB analytics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food manufacturing and food service supply.<\/strong> Hispanic-owned food manufacturers, bakeries, tortillerias, and restaurant operators are major buyers of commercial kitchen equipment, packaging, ingredients, and cold chain logistics services. <span style=\"color:#216896;border-left:3px solid #216896;padding-left:0.5rem;\">SIS proprietary research in Hispanic food consumption across the southern US has identified consistent preferences in ingredient authenticity, package format, and supplier relationship that flow upstream into B2B purchasing decisions for food manufacturers selling into Hispanic-owned operators.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The SIS Acculturation-by-Vertical Matrix<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large sis-injected-img\" data-sis-injected=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mexico-City-4-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Investigaci\u00f3n de Mercado en M\u00e9xico\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>A practical framework for industrial Hispanic Market Research crosses two axes: acculturation tier (Spanish-dominant, bilingual, English-dominant) and trade vertical depth (founder-operator, multi-crew, regional firm). The intersections produce nine cells, each with distinct media, channel, and dealer engagement requirements.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table sis-injected-table\" data-sis-injected=\"table\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Acculturation Tier<\/th>\n<th>Founder-Operator<\/th>\n<th>Multi-Crew SMB<\/th>\n<th>Regional Firm<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Spanish-Dominant<\/td>\n<td>Peer referral, bilingual counter<\/td>\n<td>WhatsApp groups, trade radio<\/td>\n<td>Spanish-language trade media<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bilingual<\/td>\n<td>Mixed digital and referral<\/td>\n<td>YouTube technical content<\/td>\n<td>Bilingual industry events<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>English-Dominant<\/td>\n<td>Digital reviews, TCO data<\/td>\n<td>Mainstream trade publications<\/td>\n<td>Standard B2B channels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px;color:#666;margin-top:4px;\"><em>Source: SIS International Research<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most industrial marketing organizations operate as if all nine cells respond to the same dealer co-op program and the same Spanish-language ad translation. They do not.<\/p>\n<h2>What Separates Leaders from the Field<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large sis-injected-img\" data-sis-injected=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Global-7-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Investigaci\u00f3n de Mercados en Am\u00e9rica Latina\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The industrial firms gaining share in Hispanic segments share four practices. They commission in-language primary research before localizing creative, not after. They segment by acculturation and trade vertical, not by zip code. They rebuild dealer scorecards to reward bilingual counter staffing and Spanish-language warranty handling. They treat Hispanic SMB founder-operators as a distinct buyer persona in their CRM, with separate nurture sequences and account-based marketing logic.<\/p>\n<p>The firms losing share treat Hispanic Market Research as a translation exercise attached to a generic SMB campaign. The cost of that mistake compounds as the segment grows.<\/p>\n<h2>The Decision in Front of Industrial Leaders<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large sis-injected-img\" data-sis-injected=\"img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1456\" height=\"816\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-45d04967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hispanic-5.jpg\" alt=\"Investigaci\u00f3n y estrategia de mercado internacional de SIS\" title=\"Hispanic (5)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hispanic-5.jpg 1456w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hispanic-5-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hispanic-5-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hispanic-5-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hispanic-5-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hispanic Market Research is no longer a CPG topic. It is a core input to industrial channel strategy, dealer network design, product positioning, and aftermarket revenue planning. The firms commissioning rigorous in-language primary research with proper acculturation segmentation are building a five-year lead. The window to catch up narrows each quarter the segment grows faster than the broader SMB market.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"about-sis-international\" style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1a3d68;\">Acerca de SIS Internacional<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/es\/\">SIS Internacional<\/a> ofrece investigaci\u00f3n cuantitativa, cualitativa y estrat\u00e9gica. Proporcionamos datos, herramientas, estrategias, informes y conocimientos para la toma de decisiones. 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