News

15^th / 27^th July 2010
Making progress: the 4th Share Capital Increase is successfully concluded!
Today we received the brand new Excerpt from the Commercial Register: we have now a new share capital of CHF 2'198'000. The new share-certificates will be delivered in the coming days. We are pleased to have achieved an important step and are enthusiastically looking ahead. Please read more about it in our letter to investors.
3^rd letter to investors (PDF, 309 KB, only in German)
Excerpt from the Commercial Register (PDF, 1,6 MB, only in German)
By-Laws (PDF, 24 KB, only in German)

18^th Mai 2010
Annual Meeting 2011
The 3^rd Ordinary Annual Meeting will take place in the morning of Thursday, 5^th May, 2011 in Affoltern am Albis.

18^th Mai 2010
The Second Annual Meeting
took place in Affoltern am Albis on 5^th May, 2010. 15 shareholders representing 651 votes participated in the first Annual General Meeting in Affoltern am Albis. This is equivalent to 80.1% of  the share capital.
All resolutions were carried unanimously.
Log of the General Meeting 2010 (only in German, PDF, 83 KB)
Presentation "Finances" of R. Engler (only in German, PDF, 84 KB)
Presentation "Plantation report 2010" of R. Costa (only in German, PDF, 9 MB)
Annual Report 2009 (PFD, 3,8 MB)

18^th Mai 2010
Panama trip 2011
The next trip will take place from 21^st to 28^th May 2011

16th December 2009
Our plantations have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) valid until November 2014 (FSC-certificate (PDF, 266 KB))

30^th November, 2009
The tax office of the Canton of Glarus defined a net tax value of 1365 CHF per share per the 31^st December 2008.

28^th October, 2009
New Manager for The Tree Partner Company Ltd
By employing Jacqueline Jakob-Gallmann, the Board of Directors has implemented the most important finding of its risk analysis. Read more about it in the 2nd letter to shareholders, dated 12th October, 2009 (German only, PDF, 588 KB).

8^th September, 2009
Working globally - firmly rooted locally
Hardwood and Panama are not well known in Affoltern am Albis. The local newspaper therefore published a portrait of our Company. Carol Franklin is writing various short articles, in which she compares Panama with Switzerland.
Dress codes (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
Orphans and other children (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
Trying to pay (German only, PDF, 34 KB)
Tax havens (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
First Communion in Bajo del Río (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
Chaos in the Swiss club (German only, PDF, 9 KB)
Wages in Panama (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
My garden in Panama (German only, PDF, 13 KB)
Equatorial rainy season (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
Missed for 143 years (German only, PDF, 8 KB)
Mrs. GPS in Panama (German only, PDF 14 KB)
How to get a licence plate (German only, PDF 123 KB)
Recycling in Panama (German only, PDF, 7 KB)
Everything is more beautiful in Panama (German only, PDF, 153 KB)
Tropical trees in Affoltern (German only, PDF, 101 KB)

28^th July, 2009
The Tree Partner Company is growing as planned
On 23^rd July, 2009, the third share capital increase was notarised. This implements the decision taken by the Annual General Meeting to increase the share capital. The new shares will be delivered in the coming days. A hearty welcome to our new shareholders!
9^th June 2009
Interview in Global Management, issue 05/2009 (PDF, 453 KB, only in German)

9^th January 2009
Article and Investment check in ECO-reporter.de:
Return on ecological wood plantations
The Swiss company „The Tree Partner Company“ establishes plantations in Panama. Investors can participate via the German fund The Tree Partner Company GmbH & Co KG in the company. Our Investment check of 9^th January presents the offer and we give a recommendation.
You can find also the Investment check under Download (German only).

11^th December 2008
New Board member Heiko Liedeker
Today the extraordinary General Assembly elected Heiko Liedeker unanimously to the Board of The Tree Partner Company AG. We are happy to have a forest ecologist of the highest standing on our leading team. Heiko was the executive director of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) from 2001 to 2008, first in Oaxaca, Mexico, and then in Bonn, Germany.
The extraordinary General Assembly also decided to increase the share capital by 226.000 CHF to 1,344,000 CHF.

2nd October 2008
PERPETUAL TRAVELLER – for Professional, Business and Independent Travellers
Our Guest writer Carol Franklin is proposing an alternative with an original solution, in this week's edition of Perpetual Traveller "Seeking Teak in Panama", which we trust you will enjoy to read and consider to take advantage of this unique possibility.
SEEKING TEAK IN PANAMA!

12^th June 2008
A hearty welcome to our new shareholders
Our company is growing. Today the General Meeting carried all the items proposed by the Board unanimously:
The share capital was raised from CHF 600,000 to CHF 1,118,000 bringing the number of nominal shares from 300 to 559.
The forest engineer, Romano Costa, was elected to the Board. We congratulate Romano and are happy to have the added forestry knowledge and experience on the Board and are looking forward to cooperating.
The shareholders also approved the change of the company seat to Glarus.
All the land is being prepared and the plantation in La Ocho (Cañazas) is in full swing.

10^th April, 2008
"Forest Investment: Managing the past and going forward"
Approximately 3,000 „tree partners“ of the former Swiss Prime Forestry AG faced a total loss of their investment in May, 2006. Then the rescue company „Forests for Friends Ltd“ took over the teak plantations in Panama . The managers have now established a further company and are setting up new sustainable plantations.
ECOreporter.de interviews the chairman of the Board, Carol Franklin, on finances, good and bad soil, plans, and revenue.
– Interview im ECOreporter.de-Sondermagazin of 10.4.2008 (PDF, 174 KB) only in German
– www.ecoreporter.de