We have three Primary Partner Groupings
Our Capital Partners
Provide the all-important funds required to support production and drive distribution.
Our Production Partners
Are the rural landowners of tribal lands who provide the land, grow, harvest and deliver their chemical-free crop to the farm gate for collection and delivery to the processing facility where the resource is value added into Natural Health Products "NHP" as retail shelf-ready SKU's (Stock keeping Units) for export to the US distribution hub in CA.
Our Distribution Partners
These being the women led natural health care sector professionals in the USA who get out and sell the SKU packaged NHP's that deliver the cash that goes back to all ecosystem participants.
Our Production Partners
NZ Tea Tree - Whangaroa, Northland NZ
The steam driven extraction unit pictured is a state-of-the-art tea tree oil extraction unit recently imported from South Africa by Luke Shepherd an ex-pat Kiwi who installed the unit on the family's 187 year old farm in the Whangaroa harbor area north of Kerikeri as part of his plan to build a viable NZ manuka and kanuka tea tree agribiz in the far-north of New Zealand.
Standing on top of the unit with Linda Brink, President of Tribal Therapeutics Inc, the Florida, USA based importer is Luke Shepherd, director of our primary oil supplier and member of the Station's owning family who originally purchased it in 1836 from a powerful Maori chief, with the family having owned the station since that historic purchase. This facility is available to provide a back-up facility to the launch objective of meeting our first three year supply requirements of 17,000 kgs.
NZ Tea Tree, Kohumaru Station, Northland NZ
Eric's wider whānau collective's ancestral Tūrangawaewae traces directly to the pre-colonial era Kohumaru land blocks. In 1999, Eric set up a contracting company as the first step to commence a new agribiz on Kohumaru. Working with whanau, Eric eventually secured a Crown Lease over a 944ha block carrying huge tracts of regrowth manuka and kanuka.
With more than 50 years of land based contracting experience on his resume, including having originally converted Kohumaru into a pastoral station operated by the old Lands and Survey. Dept. With the station’s closing and reversion to regrowth mānuka and kānuka, Eric has developed a comprehensive, regenerative tea tree management plan. One that accords with Tikanga and Kaitiakitanga to ensure that Kohumaru Station, forever remains a valuable, intergenerational taonga supply source of both NZ tea tree oil and honey.
Australian NHP production facilities.
Two TGA / GMP compliant, infection control focused, Natural Health Product, (NHP) facilities are included in the Series B Package. The Alstonville facility stablished in northern NSW nearly 40 years ago.
The vale adding processes are to be conducted through the Alstonville facility for export to the US distribution hub.
Extraction Technology: Supercritical Fluid Extraction
Pictured in the image to the right is Ben, a partner in a company incorporated to operate a supercritical fluid extraction "SFE" unit now installed in the Kerikeri area. The tea Tree foliage is placed into an extraction vessel where a pump forces supercritical CO2 into the extraction vessel where it meets the leaves breaking open the trichomes allowing the oil to be released.
SFE is a new separation technology that uses supercritical fluid solvent for extraction with carbon dioxide (CO2) being the most commonly used supercritical fluid, It eliminates the use of organic solvents, which reduces the problems of their storage, disposal, and environmental concerns. Research has shown that the lipid extraction has the ability to reach more than 90% of theoretical value in a short time delivering a highly efficient oil extraction technology.
Extraction Technology: Ultrasound Extraction
The Company is researching the possibility of installing a pilot Ultrasound oil extraction facility on the site located on State Highway 10 in the Kerikeri area. A site with excellent high visibility to the thousands of vehicles that pass by daily.
For a wide-ranging host of reasons including claimed superior oil extraction efficacy, lower energy costs and a carbon-neutral oil production process, the directors are currently evaluating the use of carbon neutral, UAE in place of steam in the oil extraction process.
Such a facility would be the first of its kind in the country. Opening the door to a clean and green, regenerative NZ tea Tree oil centric, export lead agribiz sector in NZ.
Our US Distribution Partners - led by "Tribal Linda".
Making it happen in my home country, USA
Linda is a US citizen with 16 years of therapeutic tea-tree oil industry experience on her resume. From ’91 through to ’99 investing in and working on the development of Australian therapeutic tea tree oil consumer products. Since 2016 based in NZ procuring tea-tree oil supply as the lead natural therapeutic remedy to enter the USD200B+ PA, Complementary & Alternative Remedies, sector of the USD4T PA health market with a gender specific remedy.
Linda’s tea-tree interest started in NZ when her family (1) launched the “Tea-Tree Manor” brand of Australian therapeutic tea-tree oil based household disinfectant/cleaning products, (2) leased a boutique tea-tree farm in NZ, (3) invested in a 1,200 acre organic tea-tree oil plantation owning company in northern NSW together with its TGA licensed therapeutic manufacturing facility and branded products
Linda returned home to the US in 2005 joining the family’s realty firm. In 2015, she noted a FMA niche for NZ mānuka & kānuka tea tree oil in the US, moving to NZ in 2016 to setup the Tribal Co-Op project. Post closure of this placement, Linda returns to FL to take over the family business, its property portfolio and will launch Tribal products through one of her family’s Ft Lauderdale properties with retail expansion to be co-supported by family capital.
Yes, that's me in my fav spot. Down in the Florida Keys where way back in May of 2015, I learnt of the USD12M, 30 day success story of the "Flow Hive" crowdfunding campaign which led me to thinking about NZ "tea-tree" oil and honey distribution in the US. Seven years later, it's finally "go".
The distribution facility in CA
Established in 2013 by an Australian based Natural Health Products (NHP) to distribute their proprietary branded NHP in the US.
Now, 11 years on and with the Covid era supply disruption now firmly in the rear view mirror, this facility is on track to turn in a tripling of its 2024 turnover over its 2023 revenues, delivering a very profitable EBITDA.
Post closing of the acquisition of this facility and its common shareholder affiliated Australian based NHP supplier, it will serve as the US storage and product distribution hub for the "Tribal" branded range of gender-specific natural infection control NHP's.
Hooking up with Maureen - Our US crowdfunding guru
You see, Maureen is the business development director for the SEC licensed intermediary company that we are working through the prep stage of a proposed US crowdfunding campaign, this meaning that we will be spending a lot of time together putting the campaign together over many cups of "POI Manuka coffee for Her".
(Remember, NZ tea tree is "Gender Specific". i.e., "Manuka" tea tree for women and "Kanuka" tea tree for men), as per tikanga.
Maureen's cross-border, international business experience will be great to lock into, Formerly a divisional VP with IBM, Maureen will be an invaluable partner in plugging into the networks and people who will play an important role in the success of the campaign.
"Really looking forward to this next step in the Tribal journey".
And then more great people who i look forward to working with to drive US NHP distribution.
There's David, my CPA in Denver who has looked after my US companies for nearly ten years now. In CA there is Lydia, an executive director at an all women PR firm whom I met and discussed the planed Tribal launch with. Certainly an inspiring firm from which I have taken some pointers on the commercial opportunities that open up to women controlled / owned companies in the US. Also, CA is home to our crowdfunding company and its two co-founders, Ron & Bruce who have been very supportive of the Tribal project launch. Look forward to our next coffee and chat guys.
Back in my home state of FL is where Amy, our family CPA and my personal attorney are based. Lunch is on me guys after I have my Covid delayed "mother and daughter reunion" and get down to running the family business and launching "Tribal". An exciting journey lies ahead.