ABOUT

Our Story

Growing Our Legacy

The Incorporation exists to manage its assets in the long term interests of our shareholders. Our core business is to grow our assets, develop our business and provide benefits to our people. We are focused on creating intergenerational equity through land management and food production.

We actively pursue and apply sustainable business practices as demonstrated by our environmental management planning and strategic partnerships. We seek out opportunities to work with our community and business partners to support the local economy.

Demographic and economic reports show that Maori have a significant and immediate role to play in the future of Aotearoa New Zealand. To realise this potential, we will join forces with likeminded strategic partners to invest in our business, grow our asset base, and build the capacity and capability of our people to improve their quality of life, and that of our future shareholders.

We know this is a long-term strategy and, like our Tupuna, we have the time and dedication to achieve the necessary incremental and exponential gains.

Te toto o te tangata, he kai, Te oranga o te tanga he whenua

Food supplies the blood of man; his welfare depends on the land

Matters of Importance

Our land and our people

Our Vision

Productive land and productive people

Our Mission

Developing our land, growing our business and empowering people

Our History

A Brief History

Formed in 1958 Te Uranga B2 Inc. was controlled by the department of Maori Affairs and Lands and Survey. Twenty-three years later (1981) control was in the hands of its owners. Since then 4 neighbouring properties have been acquired increasing the land-holding to 2,389 ha.

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Land Location

Our Whenua

These lands, predominantly ancestral, are located 13 kms north east of Taumarunui nestled in the slopes of Hikurangi and Tuhua mountains. Te Uranga B2's business comprises two dairy farms, a sheep and beef unit, pine forests, a Managed Investment Portfolio and Nga Whenua Rahui Kawenata protecting its regenerating native forests.

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Strategy 2013-2016

Leading with courage, conviction, honour, integrity and dignity.

Rangatira

Leading with courage, conviction, honour, integrity and dignity.
AIM: To be a responsible corporate citizen.

OJECTIVES:

  • Establish partnerships and alliances with likeminded entities in the primary industry

  • Work with local business and supply partners to support the local economy

  • Participate in local social and economic initiatives

  • Join regional and national primary sector/industry groups

  • Join cluster and focus groups on natural resources, industry policy and practices

  • Create a business and working environment which promotes the Incorporation as a ‘rural business partner and employer of choice’

  • Take every opportunity to participate in local government and territorial authority planning and development

Umanga

Leading with courage, conviction, honour, integrity and dignity.
AIM: To be a responsible corporate citizen.

OJECTIVES:

  • Establish partnerships and alliances with likeminded entities in the primary industry

  • Work with local business and supply partners to support the local economy

  • Participate in local social and economic initiatives

  • Join regional and national primary sector/industry groups

  • Join cluster and focus groups on natural resources, industry policy and practices

  • Create a business and working environment which promotes the Incorporation as a ‘rural business partner and employer of choice’

  • Take every opportunity to participate in local government and territorial authority planning and development

Kaitiaki

Leading with courage, conviction, honour, integrity and dignity.
AIM: To be a responsible corporate citizen.

OJECTIVES:

  • Establish partnerships and alliances with likeminded entities in the primary industry

  • Work with local business and supply partners to support the local economy

  • Participate in local social and economic initiatives

  • Join regional and national primary sector/industry groups

  • Join cluster and focus groups on natural resources, industry policy and practices

  • Create a business and working environment which promotes the Incorporation as a ‘rural business partner and employer of choice’

  • Take every opportunity to participate in local government and territorial authority planning and development

Manaaki

Leading with courage, conviction, honour, integrity and dignity.
AIM: To be a responsible corporate citizen.

OJECTIVES:

  • Establish partnerships and alliances with likeminded entities in the primary industry

  • Work with local business and supply partners to support the local economy

  • Participate in local social and economic initiatives

  • Join regional and national primary sector/industry groups

  • Join cluster and focus groups on natural resources, industry policy and practices

  • Create a business and working environment which promotes the Incorporation as a ‘rural business partner and employer of choice’

  • Take every opportunity to participate in local government and territorial authority planning and development

Planning by the Century

1910: The Incorporation was first established in 1910 for the purposes of retaining land ownership, managing the land and providing benefits for the owners. One hundred years later, Te Uranga remains and these strategic sentiments continue to resonate and guide the Incorporation’s enterprise and operations.

2013: We are committed to continuing the legacy vision of our tūpuna by regaining our corpus land, growing and diversifying our asset base, developing a profitable business that keeps pace with economic and market changes through commercial innovation, strategic alliances and joint ventures, and providing benefits for our shareholders.

2113: The Incorporation of the future will operate a diverse enterprise which integrates the social, cultural and economic imperatives of our shareholders who will be global citizens with a multi-ethnic whakapapa, and wide reaching interests and priorities. The corpus land will remain the tūrangawaewae for our shareholders who might return for an annual pilgrimage or wānanga to the whenua. The enterprise infrastructure will be based on the global spectrum of which the Incorporation will be a member.

Investments

A review of the Incorporation’s share portfolio has resulted in the adoption of a Managed Portfolio Service that provides us with a personalised investment advisory service that takes into account our current financial situation, our needs and objectives, and our attitude to risk.

The Committee of Management has directed that the portfolio must accumulate wealth; generate long term capital growth and income; diversify some of its funds outside of New Zealand; its time-frame medium to long term (10 years plus); its investments be of a conservative nature.

However, the bulk of the investments must be as liquid as possible and able to be traded on the open market should circumstances change and funds are required at short notice.

The Incorporation has various income streams and this Investment Portfolio is to further diversify the overall asset base and start to add assets outside of the core business units we already operate - dairy/sheep/meat/wool/beef/grazing/forestry.

The Investment Portfolio is managed by Craigs’ Investment Partners, Hamilton.