An alternative to the recruitment industry with farmers, less used, it refers to an industrial company, not the purchase of raw materials for the integration of farmers, their integration into the production phase. The case often cited is the United Fruit Company, which owned the banana plantations in Central America as well as boats and wholesale establishments in Spain are examples of cases wineries that produce wine are also planted a vineyard supplies they need all the grapes or in part, the rest is bought in the market.
However, as farmers took the industry has become a process of growth in recent years, this last alternative has been the development and even less has occurred, as happens in other industries, the phenomenon of disintegration; United Fruit at one point spent most banana production for independent farmers called , establish a corporate network that makes the role of station orders.
Industrial products so companies can integrate the distribution of one or more stages to the consumer, it is clear that there are some cases but as the farmers downstream integration, this integration has had little importance. Integration can take place between different phases of a particular industry sector. In general food products for the industrial production process through different stages, capable of providing all forms of integration or disintegration, each stage of production can be done by specialized companies or other companies may be involved in all stages of production processes, but also often coexist in same area before the two forms indicated. Moreover, the situation may develop from time to time as a result of developments in the economies of scale and scope and evolution of transaction costs.
An important example of all the cases mentioned above are found in olive oil sector, where there are stages of olive oil extraction, refining, packaging and marketing stages are in fact made by a company specializing in one of them or by companies that integrate all stages . In the wine industry is the phase to obtain the wort, fermenting, and aging (if any), packaging and marketing, specialized companies are also co-exist with the integrated company.
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