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, financing and capital restructuring, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), 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.
Australia’s forests are complex and understanding their differences takes a lifetime. After nearly 40 years working in Australia’s forests, I continue to learn new things but one thing I am certain about, there is no “one size fits all” management regime. Mother nature and our forests have sent us a very big message over the last 8 months.
Change our management systems or expect more of these mega fires and all the distress they cause!
The spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is native to Europe and is normally present in manageable populations. The problem with Spruce in Mainland Europe is that a lot of it was originally planted offsite. Now with lots of stressed trees around and mild winters unable to knock back populations it has become such a big problem.
There is ongoing debate about the management of natural forests and in specific fuel load reduction in natural forests in parts of the US and in Australia. There is also the question of residue utilisation from plantation forests. Briquettes is a relatively simple renewable energy product that can be produced from forest waste material.
New Zealand Emissions Trading System (ETS) Proposed changes to the ETS continue to dominate the market in New Zealand. Discussion documents circulated by environment minister James Shaw just prior to Christmas 2019 that proposed, among other changes, a NZD20 to NZD50 price band, as well as increasing the governments fixed price option (FPO) from NZD25 […]