# What can a public registry tell you about a supplier?

A registry can tell you that a company or a plant was on the record on a given date, its name, its activity code and where it is registered. In some countries it also gives a size, a tax ID and contacts. It cannot tell you about certificates, capacity, quality or financial health. Testigo shows those as not checked on every record, so the gaps are as visible as the facts.

- What we check, and what we do not: https://testigomexico.com/what-we-check
- Methodology: how records and counts are made: https://testigomexico.com/methodology
- How to check a supplier in Latin America before you visit: https://testigomexico.com/guides/check-supplier-latin-america


Cite as: Testigo, "What can a public registry tell you about a supplier?", https://testigomexico.com/questions/what-a-public-registry-tells-you-about-a-supplier, data file 2026-10-12.

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This is the Markdown version of https://testigomexico.com/questions/what-a-public-registry-tells-you-about-a-supplier. Testigo: Testigo is supplier intelligence for people who source from Latin America: a search over manufacturers taken from the official public registry of each country. Each record shows its source, its date and what was not checked.