Who owns Mercado Envíos?
Mercado Envíos is owned by MercadoLibre (Uruguay, NASDAQ: MELI).[1]
Evidence: MercadoLibre, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25, SEC EDGAR, 25 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- MercadoLibre, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay, Montevideo
- Origin
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Founded
- 2013
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Marketplaces
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: MELI
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Mercado Envíos
Mercado Envíos is the logistics network behind the marketplace, and the company treats it as central to the whole proposition because it controls delivery times and cost rather than leaving them to third-party carriers. More than half of shipments come out of its own fulfilment centres, where sellers store stock; the rest are collected from sellers or dropped off at thousands of partner shops called MELI Places, which also handle collections and returns. The transport fleet includes dedicated aircraft, trucks and thousands of last-mile vans, most of them run by contracted carriers.
Ownership timeline of Mercado Envíos
- Current owner MercadoLibre [1] verified
Where Mercado Envíos sits in MercadoLibre
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in marketplaces, and who owns them
The 59 brands in marketplaces on Brandtree belong to 28 owners. The largest is Alibaba, with 7; MercadoLibre has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 1688.com | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Allegro | Allegro | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| anibis.ch | SMG Swiss Marketplace Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| carsales | CAR Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Kaspi.kz | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Duo Duo Grocery | PDD Holdings | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Cars.com | Cars.com | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Depop | eBay | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre is a publicly listed company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, founded in 1999. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MELI.
MercadoLibre is the largest online commerce and fintech ecosystem in Latin America and the leader in the region by marketplace gross merchandise value. It was incorporated in Delaware on 15 October 1999 and its principal executive offices are in the World Trade Center Free Zone in Montevideo, Uruguay, though most of its people are elsewhere: of 123,670 employees at the end of 2025, 61,139 were in Brazil, 34,336 in Mexico, 16,726 in Argentina and 1,858 in Uruguay. Its marketplace operates in 18 countries and its Mercado Pago fintech platform in eight.
MercadoLibre: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇦🇷 Mercado Envíos and other Argentine brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Argentina. 30 of them (26%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Mercado Envíos among them.
- Despegar — Despegar 🇻🇬
- 9 de Oro — Molino Cañuelas 🇦🇷
- ARQ — Grupo Clarín 🇦🇷
- Aerolíneas Argentinas — Aerolíneas Argentinas 🇦🇷
- Aeropuertos Argentina — Corporación América Airports 🇱🇺
- Andes Líneas Aéreas — Andes 🇦🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Mercado Envíos?
The parent company of Mercado Envíos is MercadoLibre, a publicly listed company headquartered in Uruguay.
Is Mercado Envíos Argentine or Uruguayan?
Mercado Envíos originated in Argentina in 2013, but it is owned today by MercadoLibre, which is headquartered in Uruguay. So Mercado Envíos is an Argentine-origin brand under Uruguayan ownership.
Is Mercado Envíos still owned by MercadoLibre?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Mercado Envíos is still owned by MercadoLibre. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] MercadoLibre, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 February 2026; retrieved 21 September 2026.
- [2] MercadoLibre, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 3 March 2014; retrieved 28 October 2026.
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