Bundesforst

Name

Bundesforst

Legal name

Bundesforst

Website

https://bundesforst.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Forestry Management

NAICS

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

SIC

Forestry (800), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Timberland Asset Management (Institutional/Private) (AFAMAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Forest Management & Silviculture Services (Cruising, Planning, Compliance) (IMAMAAAD), Timberland Operations Planning & Contractor Management (AFAMAKAE)

Keywords

• Government forestry management
• Federal timber sales
• Hunting rights leasing
• Forestry consulting services
• Agricultural land transactions

Headquarters

HQ city

Bonn

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Bundesforst manages federal forestry assets on behalf of the German state through its role as a division of the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA). It sells forestry products including agricultural and forestry land, timber, and hunting and fishing rights/licenses, and delivers forestry services covering consultancy, planning, and forest management support. Operations are carried out through a nationwide network of regional offices ensuring local accessibility for transactions and service delivery.

Product overview

Bundesforst operates as a division of the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA), offering a comprehensive portfolio of forestry products and services across Germany. The organization provides forstliche Produkte (forestry products including land, timber, hunting and fishing rights) and forstliche Dienste (forestry services including consultancy and planning). Additionally, Bundesforst offers career development programs through its Traineeprogramm and Duales Studium (dual study program). The structure is a unified organizational offering with no modular product architecture, combining property management with professional forestry expertise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forstliche Produkte (Forestry Products)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• UK Forestry Commission: National forest service for England, managing public timberland, recreation, and forestry services. Comparable in mandate and public-ownership structure to Bundesforst, but at a national scale with greater commercial independence.
• U.S. Forest Service: U.S. federal agency managing national forests and grasslands. Comparable to Bundesforst in federal-mandate forestry stewardship, timber sales, and conservation services, but operating at much larger scale and within a different regulatory framework.
• Weyerhaeuser Company: Major publicly traded timberland REIT managing millions of acres globally. Comparable to Bundesforst in timberland asset management but operating as a private, profit-driven enterprise rather than a federal agency.

Direct peers

• Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW: North Rhine-Westphalia's state forestry agency with comparable mandate of timber management, forestry services, and recreation leasing on publicly owned land. Direct peer in product offering and ownership structure.
• Bayerische Staatsforsten: State-owned forestry agency managing Bavarian state forests; the closest direct peer to Bundesforst within Germany, offering the same combination of timber sales, hunting/fishing leasing, and forestry services, but at the state (Länder) rather than federal level.
• Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: State forestry enterprise for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, managing state timberland, hunting, and forestry services — a near-perfect structural twin to Bundesforst at the state level.
• Hessische Landesforsten: Hesse state forestry agency providing timber, hunting rights, and forestry services on state-owned land; structurally and operationally comparable to Bundesforst at the Länder level.
• Landesforsten Rheinland-Pfalz: Rhineland-Palatinate's state forestry agency, providing timber, leasing, and silvicultural services on state-owned forests — a direct administrative peer to Bundesforst within the German federal system.
• Forst Baden-Württemberg (ForstBW): State forestry agency for Baden-Württemberg, managing state forest assets, timber sales, and forestry services with a comparable government-enterprise model to Bundesforst.
• Niedersächsische Landesforsten: Lower Saxony's state forestry agency, operating the largest contiguous forest area in Germany. Comparable to Bundesforst in managing state-owned forests, timber sales, and recreation leasing, with a similar government-entity structure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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