Empresas+Éticas® and AMITAI® Highlight Companies with Strong Integrity Programs
Mexico City, September 25, 2025 — Amidst recent media scandals involving corporate corruption, the Empresas+Éticas® (E+E) initiative acknowledges and highlights organizations committed to enhancing their integrity programs. AMITAI®, in collaboration with E+E, honored Mexican and Latin American companies for their best practices in ethics and compliance during the sixth edition of the awards ceremony held at Hacienda de los Morales in Mexico City.
The Importance of Ethics and Compliance
Fernando Sentíes, CEO of AMITAI®, emphasized the significance of ethics and compliance in building transparent and responsible institutions. He explained that E+E continuously evolves by reviewing and updating its annual survey, supported by a consultative council of experts in ethics, compliance, and anti-corruption. The initiative offers a comprehensive evaluation of companies’ ethics and compliance programs, aligning with international frameworks such as the U.S. Department of Justice’s guidelines.
Benefits of Participating in E+E
By participating in E+E, companies receive a detailed report on their integrity program’s strengths and areas for improvement. This report also helps reduce risks, optimize budget allocation for ethics and compliance, increase employee engagement through value-based culture promotion, minimize reputational risks, and enhance sustainability opportunities. Additionally, companies can implement low-cost continuous improvement plans and gain significant social recognition as trusted business partners.
Key Questions and Answers
- What is Empresas+Éticas® (E+E)? E+E is an initiative by AMITAI® that recognizes and promotes ethical business practices in Mexican and Latin American companies.
- What does the certification entail? The AMITAI®/Empresas+Éticas® certification is a document verification of a company’s ethics and compliance program based on the E+E methodology’s scope.
- What benefits do companies receive from participating in E+E? Companies gain access to a detailed report on their integrity program’s strengths and areas for improvement, risk reduction, optimized budget allocation, increased employee engagement, minimized reputational risks, enhanced sustainability opportunities, low-cost continuous improvement plans, and significant social recognition.
- How can companies participate in E+E? Companies can pre-register for the seventh edition of E+E through the initiative’s website (
Panel Discussion at the Awards Ceremony
During the awards ceremony, a panel discussed the importance of ethics and compliance programs in various sectors. The panel included José Antonio Quesada Palacios, President of the National Association of Independent Corporate Professionals; Senator Daniel Barreda Pavón, President of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Commission in the Mexican Senate; Fernando Sentíes, CEO of AMITAI®; and José Antonio Oloarte Atanasio, the liaison with the Mexican Congress.
Awards Presentation
The event concluded with the recognition of six companies that received the AMITAI®/Empresas+Éticas® 2025 certification, followed by the presentation of awards to the 70 ethical companies in the sixth edition of E+E. The full list of award-winning companies is available in the E+E 2025 results supplement and previous editions on the Empresas+Éticas® website (
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