>> Our Mission
- To be the catalyst which revives the New Zealand wool industry for the benefit of shareholders and all parties associated with the successful manufacture and sale of quality wool products.
- To achieve our mission by engaging, partnering, and strengthening successful business people with investment in the wool industry who share our mission of a collaborative, creative, profitable renaissance of wool as a fibre.
The Company
Wool Equities Limited was established for strong wool growers out of the disestablishment of the New Zealand Wool Board in 2003.
The then Board of Directors took the company in the direction of a biotechnology investment company and allowed for a large non farmer shareholder investment within the company.
Wool Equities Limited continued with this strategy until 2009 when it sold the last of its holdings (Keratec), and its board resigned having consumed almost all the financial resources allocated to it from its inception.
The new Board of Directors took control from the old directors in September 2009 and have since controlled the rate of expenditure and embarked upon a strategy to increase the value of wool thus creating value for shareholders and New Zealand sheep farmers overall.
Today, Wool Equities Limited has 7,800 farmer shareholders and is clearly positioned in several areas to leap onto the world stage.