Honduras Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 526 Honduras companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Honduras company register data is filed on the Registro Mercantil (Commercial Registry), administered through the country's Chamber of Commerce system. Beneficial ownership now has its own dedicated filing: the Registro Centralizado de Beneficiarios Finales (Centralized Register of Final Beneficiaries), run by the Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros (CNBS) under the Ley de Transparencia y Registro Centralizado de Beneficiario Final, applying a 25% direct or indirect ownership threshold, or effective control regardless of formal ownership share. The register only recently became active, and its public-access rules are not yet confirmed in verifiable form. State-owned entities are covered unless the state holds 100% of the ownership.
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Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Honduras, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Honduras
Honduras is a lower-middle-income Central American economy with nominal GDP of roughly $36-37 billion in 2024/2025 and GDP per capita of about $3,426 in 2024. Real GDP growth was reported at 3.8% in 2025, driven mainly by household consumption. The currency is the Honduran lempira (HNL), trading at roughly 26.6 HNL/USD in early 2026 and having weakened about 3.9% over the preceding twelve months; consumer price inflation ran at approximately 4.6-4.9% in 2025. The economy rests on export-processing-zone (maquila) textile and apparel manufacturing, coffee (Honduras is the largest coffee exporter in Central America and the world’s eighth-largest), bananas and palm oil, and — critically — remittances from the diaspora in the United States. Honduras retains its historical “banana republic” legacy, with Dole Food Company (via its Standard Fruit de Honduras subsidiary) and, to a lesser extent, Chiquita Brands among the sector’s legacy multinational operators. Company registration is comparatively simple by regional standards (an S.R.L. can be formed with as little as $250 in capital and government fees capped around L3,000/~$114), though sector permits, zoning and municipal operating licenses add time. Counterparties verify a specific Honduran counterparty’s actual current registration status directly.
Honduras trades under the CAFTA-DR free trade agreement with the United States, which grants duty-free, quota-free access for apparel and textiles meeting rules-of-origin requirements — the backbone of the maquila/free-trade-zone (FTZ) manufacturing model concentrated around San Pedro Sula and Choloma. Total US-Honduras goods and services trade was roughly $15.5 billion in 2025 (down about 1.5% from 2024). A separate and politically live issue is the ZEDE (Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico) regime: Congress repealed the ZEDE law in 2022 and Honduras’s Supreme Court declared the zones unconstitutional in September 2024, but the US-backed Próspera ZEDE has continued operating and disputes the dissolution, filing an $11 billion investor-state claim against Honduras under CAFTA-DR at ICSID; Honduras has moved to withdraw from the ICSID (Washington) Convention in response. Foreign direct investment totaled a preliminary $882.4 million in 2025, down from $993.9 million in 2024 (Banco Central de Honduras, preliminary report), with the US, Canada and Mexico as the leading investor countries and garment/textile manufacturing, banking, and transport/telecom as the top-attracting sectors. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s actual current ZEDE-linked exposure and CAFTA-DR compliance status directly.
The labor force totaled about 4.3 million people in 2024, with a labor force participation rate of 57.2%. Unemployment was 5.2% in 2024, projected near 5.0% in 2025 — but this headline rate masks very high underemployment, which stood near 49% in 2021-2024 (its lowest level in a decade), and historically extensive informal employment (79.3% of employment in 2017, the most recent precise figure identified). Remittances are the standout structural feature of the economy: Hondurans abroad, overwhelmingly in the United States, sent home $9.74 billion in 2024 (up from $9.18 billion in 2023), equivalent to roughly a quarter of GDP, with inflows up another 25% year-on-year in Q1 2025. The 2025 minimum wage rose 5.5-7% depending on firm size (7.5% for maquila/free-zone firms), to roughly L12,540-L15,395/month depending on company size band. Politically, Nasry Asfura (National Party) was declared winner of the November 2025 presidential election on December 24, 2025, with 40.26% of the vote against Salvador Nasralla’s 39.54% and Rixi Moncada’s 19.19% — a contested, hand-recounted process — and takes office January 27, 2026. Since December 2022, a “state of exception” (emergency powers suspending certain constitutional protections) targeting gang violence has been repeatedly extended and by 2026 covers 226+ municipalities; homicide rates fell from about 38 to 25.3 per 100,000 between 2022 and 2024, alongside human-rights concerns raised by the UN over detentions and use of force. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s actual current remittance-linked exposure and political-transition-linked risk directly.
Honduras company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Honduras ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Honduras counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Zavia's company data coverage for Honduras?
Zavia holds 526 company records for Honduras, of which 526 (100%) are currently active on the register.
How does Honduras handle UBO and beneficial ownership disclosure?
Honduras company register data is filed on the Registro Mercantil (Commercial Registry), administered through the country's Chamber of Commerce system. Beneficial ownership now has its own dedicated filing: the Registro Centralizado de Beneficiarios Finales (Centralized Register of Final Beneficiaries), run by the Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros (CNBS) under the Ley de Transparencia y Registro Centralizado de Beneficiario Final, applying a 25% direct or indirect ownership threshold, or effective control regardless of formal ownership share. The register only recently became active, and its public-access rules are not yet confirmed in verifiable form. State-owned entities are covered unless the state holds 100% of the ownership.
Does Zavia track Honduras company ownership chains and parent-subsidiary links?
Yes. Zavia holds 0 shareholder records for Honduras companies, with 680 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
How can I query Honduras company records programmatically?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Honduras, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I learn more about Honduras's company register?
Zavia's Honduras beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.