Configuração territorial e indústria de derivados de trigo: articulações e fluxos da Empresa M. Dias Branco a partir do Ceará

Abstract

In this text, we intend to understand the territorial configuration of the industrial company M. Dias Branco S.A. through its work in the territory, via the articulation between agents and as inducer of the generation of networks, flows and diverse territorial dynamics. In order to achieve the desired understanding, the following procedures were used: bibliographic survey and readings; documentary and journalistic survey; survey and organization of database; interpretation of the database and generation of products such as tables, tables and cartograms. M. Dias Branco is linked to the institutions that have an important capacity of articulation of agents and associations at national, and even international level. The company's leading role is accentuated, as it is considered a leader in the national market for biscuits and pasta. In addition to operating throughout Brazil, from its production units and its Distribution Centers, M. Dias Branco also allows the perception of a new command logic that "escapes" from the great management centers of the country, since the company's decision center is located in Ceará, a state far from the topological point of view, of the states with the highest concentrations of agents in the wheat derivatives food industry - final consumption, but which presents itself as an important locus in relation to the standardization, management and industrial production of the respective sector. Therefore, from these impressions, there is a complexification with respect to the territorial division of the work of the industry in scope, no longer seen merely as an archaic sector, but with complex spatial dynamics and interactions, such as those observed from the company M. Dias Branco SA.