About us

The team behind Aurea Trade Partners

Aurea Trade Partners is the commercial and operating unit of The Aurum Group. It evaluates, structures and executes sourcing, import, representation and distribution operations in Mexico, with the experience of people who have run industrial supply chains end to end.

Who we are

An identifiable company, with an address and legal name.

We act as a real party in every operation. That is why our corporate information is public and consistent across all documents.

Brand
Aurea Trade Partners
Legal name
AU Capital Estratégico, S.A. de C.V.
Address
Calle 28 de Octubre 107, Col. San Sebastián, Toluca, Estado de México, México
Group
The Aurum Group
Contact
info@aureatrade.com
Frank Arteaga, Founder of The Aurum Group
Frank ArteagaFounder of The Aurum Group
Founder

Frank Arteaga

Operational and financial perspective

Frank Arteaga is a Mexican entrepreneur, founder of The Aurum Group and Capital Creative, with 18 years of experience building and running companies since 2008. He holds a degree in industrial and systems engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey and completed executive management programs at IPADE Business School and innovation programs at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University).

Through Capital Creative, founded in 2012 in Mexico City, he has developed brand strategy, digital communications and client acquisition for more than 200 brands, including Sears, Ford and BMW. Today he leads The Aurum Group, a group with units in trade and sourcing, agribusiness, capital, branding and AI-driven technology.

In recent years, he has led and run corporate-scale supply projects without institutional debt or venture capital funds. He has negotiated directly with sugar mills and corporations, coordinated tanker trucks from Veracruz and tractor-trailers from Tepic, and developed in-house last-mile logistics infrastructure.

That execution experience is the foundation of Aurea Trade Partners: evaluating each operation with a financial perspective, structuring it with clear responsibilities and running it through delivery.

Businesses that matter are built not on ideas, but on execution.
18 years in business, since 2008
Thousands of tons of inputs supplied to corporate clients
Direct negotiation with producers and sugar mills
Projects run without institutional debt or venture capital
Supply experience

Operations the team has already executed.

Supply of industrial and food inputs negotiated with producers, transported with in-house logistics and delivered to corporate clients.

Sanitary-grade ethanol

Recurring supply · corporate clients

Continuous supply with tanker-truck transport from the producing region to the client.

Standard sugar

Thousands of tons · direct negotiation with sugar mills

Supply contract for the food industry, with scheduled deliveries.

Industrial ethanol

Long-term relationship · anchor client

Sustained supply with an anchor client in the industrial sector.

Projects led by the founder. For confidentiality reasons, clients are not identified and amounts are not published.

Frank Arteaga in the cab of a delivery truck
In the field: in-house last-mile logistics.
Track record

Background in engineering, executive management and innovation.

  1. 2007
    Central Michigan University

    Industrial Engineering · Study Abroad

  2. 2009
    Tecnológico de Monterrey

    Industrial and systems engineering

  3. 2012
    Capital Creative

    Founded in Mexico City · strategy and communications for more than 200 brands

  4. 2021
    IPADE Business School

    Executive Management Program

  5. 2022
    Kellogg · Northwestern

    Innovation and business orchestration

  6. Today
    The Aurum Group

    Founder · Aurea Trade Partners, Aurum Labs and other units

The Aurum Group

A group with complementary capabilities.

Aurea originates and executes the commercial operation. Other units of the group contribute agribusiness, capital structuring, branding and technology when an operation requires it.

Aurea Trade Partners

Commercial operations: sourcing, importing, representation and distribution.

Saccharum

Agribusiness.

Aureum Capital

Finance and capital structuring.

Capital Creative

Strategy, branding and digital communications since 2012.

Aurum Labs

AI-assisted business operating systems.

Network of specialists

One accountable party, the right specialists.

In every operation, Aurea coordinates authorized specialists and retains commercial responsibility to the client.

Loading pallets at a dock for nationwide distribution
  • Licensed customs brokers

    Customs clearance and foreign trade compliance.

  • Tax and legal advisory

    Contracts, substance and tax review of each structure.

  • International transport

    Shipping lines, freight forwarders and insurance.

  • Warehouses

    Inventory and control in Mexico.

  • Domestic transport

    Scheduled deliveries to the plant.

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