Pietro André Telatin Paschoalino

Several changes occurred in the food and beverage sector during the 1990s, such as increased international competition, increased foreign direct investment and a large number of mergers and acquisitions, and could thus impact on geographical allocations in the agglomerations of the sector. In this way the objective of the present study is to identify the evolution of productive agglomerations in the food and beverage industry in the Southern Region of Brazil in the years 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2015. For this purpose, we used the Principal Component Analysis method (ACP) for determining the concentration index and the Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) for visualization of municipal grouping of such index. From the results, it is possible to affirm that between 1999 and 2015 the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul presented significant loss of agglomerations in the sector. On the other hand, the state of Paraná seems to have presented to the sector the various requirements necessary to concentrate and expand the firms of the region in certain localities, since it presents both emergence and spillovers of concentrations. In this way, the results can provide information for the private sector decision making and contribute to the construction of public policies. Keywords: Concentration Index; Spatial Analysis; Spillovers.