Arbor Forest Management

What Arbor Forest Management does

Arbor Forest Management Ltd. is an Irish professional forestry services firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Cork, with a regional office in Ballinasloe. It provides turnkey timberland management across the full lifecycle: site inspection, planting and afforestation with up to four years of plantation maintenance, forest road construction, thinning and clearfell harvesting, PEFC certification, land sales brokerage, and forestry investment management. The firm operates a nationwide field team of qualified foresters (technical members of the Society of Irish Foresters) covering all counties in Ireland, and obtained its own PEFC Chain of Custody Certification (PEFC/17-31-091) in 2023.

The company's primary customer segments are private landowners and farmers seeking to convert land to forestry under Ireland's afforestation grant and premium scheme, existing private forest owners requiring management and certification, and institutional investors — most notably Dasos Capital, for whom Arbor manages the 4,400-hectare Foraois Growth portfolio across 16 counties. Total certified forestry under management is approximately 8,000 hectares. Revenue is generated through professional services fees on forest management mandates, supplemented by transaction fees on land sales and brokerage of timber harvests to a network of buyers.

The business is privately held by its three co-founders (John Roche, Jenny Hynes, Alan Egan), with no disclosed external funding, no parent company, and no subsidiaries. The underlying technology stack is conventional for a small professional services firm: a WordPress website, a forestry calculator form, and standard forestry and certification tooling. There is no public API, software platform, or proprietary AI/data product; the firm's value proposition rests on in-person forestry expertise, regulatory know-how, and a domestic distribution network.

Name

Arbor Forest Management

Legal name

Arbor Forest Management Ltd.

Website

https://arbor.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Arbor Forest Management is an Irish forestry services firm providing turnkey timberland management — planting, thinning, harvesting, certification, land sales, and investment management — to private landowners, farmers, and institutional investors across all counties in Ireland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Forestry Management Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (1153), Timber Tract Operations (11311), Support Activities for Forestry (115310)

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Timberland Asset Management (Institutional/Private) (AFAMAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Timberland & Forest Asset Management (IMAMAJAA), Controlled Wood / Due Diligence / Risk Assessment Services (AFAMALAC), Timberland Brokerage & Acquisition/Disposition Advisory (AFAMAKAB)

Keywords

• Forest management services
• Timberland management
• Afforestation services
• Forest certification
• Forestry investment management

Headquarters

HQ city

Cork

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Forest Management Services: Professional forestry management services provided to private and institutional forest owners. Services include planting, forest road construction, harvesting, thinning, forest certification, land sales, and investment management.
2. Land Sales Commission: Facilitation of forest land sales and bare land transactions with potential buyers and investors.
3. Forestry Investment Management: Portfolio development and management services for investor clients including institutional investors.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Arbor Forest Management Ltd. provides turnkey timberland management services for private and institutional forest owners across Ireland. Core services include planting (site preparation, tree planting, and up to 4 years of maintenance), thinning and harvesting, forest roads construction, land sales facilitation, forestry investment portfolio management, and PEFC chain of custody certification services. The company manages the full forest lifecycle from afforestation through harvest and replanting, supported by its own PEFC Chain of Custody Certification (PEFC/17-31-091) obtained in 2023.

Product overview

Arbor Forest Management offers a comprehensive suite of turnkey timberland management services as a single integrated offering rather than a modular platform. The core services include six interconnected offerings: Planting Services (site preparation, tree planting, and 4-year maintenance), Thinning & Harvesting Services (forest inventory, selective thinning, and clearfelling), Forest Roads Construction (access infrastructure planning and building), Land Sales (property appraisal and transaction facilitation), Forestry Investment Management (portfolio development for investors), and Forest Certification Services (PEFC certification and chain of custody). These services work together to provide complete forest lifecycle management from initial afforestation through to harvest and replanting. A supplementary Forestry Calculator tool is available for basic calculations. The company also provides 10-year management plans required by the Forest Service and handles all regulatory interactions with government forestry authorities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Planting Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Tax-free forestry premiums of €746 to €1,142 per hectare per year for 20 years (farmers) or 15 years (non-farmers)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PEFC IrelandcoreTechnology or Integration · 31 January 2020PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) Ireland provides forest certification services. Arbor achieved PEFC Chain of Custody Certification (PEFC/17-31-091) and assists clients in obtaining and retaining PEFC certification.
• None-So-Hardy Tree NurseryminorOthersTree nursery located in Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow that grows and supplies trees to the Irish forestry market. Has been a supplier to Arbor Forest Management for many years.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Scottish Woodlands Ltd: Major UK forestry management company providing planting, harvesting, civil engineering, and forest investment services to private and institutional clients. Comparable to Arbor in its integrated service mix and institutional client focus, though operating at significantly larger scale across Scotland, England, and Ireland-adjacent markets.
• Tilhill Forestry: UK-based forestry and timber management firm offering turnkey services from planting through harvesting, certification, and investment management. Operates across Great Britain with institutional and private landowner clients, making it the closest direct peer to Arbor's full-lifecycle Irish offering.
• Wykeham Forestry: UK-based professional forestry management firm offering planting, harvesting, road construction, and grant support to private woodland owners. Closely mirrors Arbor's service-by-service offering to private and farm forestry clients in a neighbouring market.

Others

• Gresham House Timberland (now Gresham House Forest Solutions): UK-based asset manager with a dedicated forestry and timberland investment team serving institutional clients. Comparable to Arbor's investment management line but operates at the investor/portfolio manager layer rather than as a local forest manager.
• Dasos Capital Ltd: Finland-based natural capital investment manager that is Arbor's anchor institutional client via its Foraois Growth vehicle. Not a competitor — included as the most relevant ecosystem participant given shared focus on European timberland as an institutional asset class.

Broad incumbents

• Coillte: Irish state-owned forestry company managing approximately 440,000 hectares, with broader mandates across timber production, land sales, and ecosystem services. Not a direct competitor for private management contracts but the dominant incumbent shaping the same Irish forestry market Arbor operates in.

Emerging players

• Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company: UK-listed investment company investing in UK and Irish forestry assets on behalf of institutional investors. Comparable to Arbor's investment management work for Dasos/Foraois, but operating on the capital side rather than the local management services side.
• Forest Carbon Ltd: UK-based company developing woodland carbon credit projects with landowners. Comparable to Arbor in serving UK/Irish landowners through forestry partnership models, but with a distinct carbon-credits revenue layer rather than full-cycle timber management.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/arborforestmanagement
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arbor-forest-management-ltd

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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