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DOC-9001 - The Kohumaru "Life-Force" Story
DOC-7001 - "Kohumaru Angels" Launch partners
We have three principal Partner Groupings
Our Capital Management Partners
Provide the capital plus capital management expertise required to support production, drive distribution and keep the operating group on track to ensure liquidity events / exits for our capital owning stakeholders..
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 men and women who will lead our channel partnering programs.
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 Plantation, 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.
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. Eleven 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, 13 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 substantial increase in turnover as it expands its range of natural health products for distribution into its well established US wide retail customer base.
It will serve as the US storage and product distribution hub for the "Tribal" branded range of gender-specific natural infection control products and the soon to launch "Life-Force Health Extract" product into the SoCal region as the proving ground