An Territorial Analysis Of The Industrial Sector Of Tableware Ceramic

The ceramic industry of tableware is characterized by the production of products such as dinner sets, tea and coffee, and decorative products. This sector has a great importance to the Brazilian economy (responsible for more than 20 thousand jobs). Thus this paper aims to conduct a brief analysis of the key characteristics of the sector which has been struggling against the highly competitive with large corporations and with other countries leading many Brazilian companies to bankruptcy. The methodology is based on the reading of books, theses and articles, written by authors such as Raffestin (1994), Coutinho and Ferraz (1994), Presnell (2006), Belingeri (2005) and others. The analyzes were collected in organs like IBGE, CNAE, ALICEWEB and RAIS