Margules Groome are independent consultants to the forestry, wood products, bio solutions, pulp & paper, and agriculture sectors.
Providing advice, best practice analysis and documentation on asset valuations / appraisals for financial reporting, performance monitoring, transaction due diligence, damage assessment, property division, including other areas. We observe all applicable national and international valuation and financial reporting standards.
We assist clients with transactions on either the Vendor or Purchaser side of timberland asset and business sales through our vendor due diligence process and global investor network help to increase bidder participation and competition. For Purchasers our due diligence work offers expert insights to allow a fair judgement of bid value to be reached.
We conduct in-depth primary and secondary research and analysis of global forest and wood product markets. To support your business strategy, we undertake market segmentation analysis to identify the trends in the historic, current and likely future price of your product.
Our extensive across-industry experience enables us to design and implement fit-for-purpose IT systems. These include forest planning, scheduling and optimization tools, forest management information systems (FMIS), remote sensing and the use of airborne sensors to measure growth and advanced data analytics and modelling using various software technologies.
To improve profitability throughout the value chain, we use diagnostic tools to identify performance gaps and quantify upside potential in monetary terms. Our operations experts can both review current and develop new business processes, as well as assist you to establish effective key performance indices.
Helping you grow and position your business or products for the future through growth strategies, market analysis and competitive positioning, feasibility studies, scenario planning, benchmarking and risk analysis.
We are industry professionals who function across a range of levels, from the boardroom to operations. Our clients include government, public and private enterprises in the forest and wood product sectors.
Japan has long been recognised as a global leader in industrial efficiency and competitiveness, with examples extending to electronics, automation and car manufacturing. By contrast, Japan’s pulp and paper industry is seemingly uncompetitive and outdated. It has been built on familiar principles applied in many of Japan’s primary industries, which only focuses on maximising local […]
Margules Groome’s Australian Softwood Residual Log Price Index measures domestic softwood plantation residual log prices (excluding exports). The index is a measure of the residual log value to the forest owner once harvest and haulage costs are subtracted from mill door log prices. It is a measure of the forest owners log margins, or the […]
Margules Groome’s quarterly harvest and haulage cost index for Australian plantation operations is based on actual price indexation mechanisms used by industry weighted by volume harvested. The previous index published in December 2019 showed a steady increase through 2020 following a fall in the first quarter of 2019 due to a fall in fuel prices. […]
Forest estate owners or managers often separately engage the services of land and forest valuers to assist in the provision of an independent fair value opinion of their plantation estate (land plus trees). Inconveniently, land and tree crop values are not simply additive.