Tvind Alert
Tvind's plantations, luxury apartments and properties abroad
Tvind is into private property in a big way. As you are rattling a tin on a windy corner of Copenhagen to help the world's poor, one thing the teachers will not tell you is just how rich Tvind itself is. Tvind's biggest investment is in land abroad - just where the money came from to buy all those acres is a well-kept secret.
Tvind also owns companies, offices, real estate, luxury apartments and ships, as well as its schools and colleges.
See also: Tvind luxury
properties
Tvind ships
Tvind companies
Plantations
Tvind is known to own large, profitable, secret commercial plantations in many developing countries. Ownership is usually through Tvind-owned companies, often in offshore tax havens such as Jersey, Guernsey and the Cayman Islands. Companies frequently change names and addresses, but control is invariably exercised through senior members of the Teachers Group.
In several of these plantations, Tvind has been exposed as a bad employer, forcing local people to work for low wages without proper health care, civil rights or union recognition. In some, outsiders are kept away by armed security guards.
In some areas, especially southern Africa, Tvind-owned plantations may masquerade as 'development projects' for local people. In fact, local people may be charged high rents to farm on the land and the produce could well be highly profitable for Tvind. Senior managers are invariably white Europeans.
See also: Tvind's aid projects
under construction
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Cowpen Farm (150
hectares) Bananas. Bought from Ffyffes, 1986
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Brazil:
Fazenda
Floryl Correntina, Bahia provice.
(88,000 hectares, tropical rainforest and hardwoods) with bananas, sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit
and eucalyptus trees, which are used to manufacture cellulose. Tvind bought the farm on
22 September 1994 from Shell for the sum of $9,250,000 (US dollars).
Of
this they paid $3.25 million cash, while the rest is paid in yearly instalments
of $750.000. Reliable calculations show, that the Danes have spent 11 million
krone on the plantation since 1993. [Ekstra Bladet]
According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tvind is cutting down the rain
forest here. Investigative article
Big River Melons
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Cayman Islands
Furtherland Mango
farm
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Ecuador
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El Salvador
San Chico Banana, sugar
La
Cabana Rice
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Fiji
Malawi
Malaysia
Mozambique Cashew plantations
Namibia
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Portugal
Tvind may own farm land in Portugal. See information
suggested in a memo sent to Tvind Alert in 1999: farms
in Portugal (in French)
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St Lucia
Mt
Lezard Estate (1986)
Park Estate
See also:
The story of the Tvind plantations in St
Lucia
In 1986 Roy Lawaetz found that his elderly father had come under pressure to sell off family property to Tvind, at a bargain price, with the support of the then St Lucia Prime Minister, John Compton. Roy Lawaetz, then a journalist, fought a battle to prevent the forced sale, but lost. This is his story. Roy's story
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Orange Hill Estate
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French Polynesia
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La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
El Varadero del
Orinoco
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Virgin Islands
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Newspaper reports
In about 1991 Tvind claimed it had sold all its plantations. This was greeted with wry amusement by the Danish press. There was speculation that Faelleseje had simply set up a new raft of companies and sold the plantations to itself.
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Brazil:
Fazenda
Floryl Correntina, Bahia provice.
(88,000 hectares, tropical rainforest and hardwoods) with bananas, sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit
and eucalyptus trees, which are used to manufacture cellulose. Tvind bought the farm on
22 September 1994 from Shell for the sum of $9,250,000 (US dollars).
Of
this they paid $3.25 million cash, while the rest is paid in yearly instalments
of $750.000. Reliable calculations show, that the Danes have spent 11 million
krone on the plantation since 1993. [Ekstra Bladet]
According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tvind is cutting down the rain
forest here. Investigative article
Big River Melons
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Cayman Islands
Furtherland Mango
farm
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Ecuador
_____________________________________
El Salvador
San Chico Banana, sugar
La
Cabana Rice
__________________________________________________
Fiji
Malawi
Malaysia
Mozambique Cashew plantations
Namibia
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Portugal
Tvind may own farm land in Portugal. See information
suggested in a memo sent to Tvind Alert in 1999: farms
in Portugal (in French)
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St Lucia
Mt
Lezard Estate (1986)
Park Estate
See also:
The story of the Tvind plantations in St
Lucia
In 1986 Roy Lawaetz found that his elderly father had come under pressure to sell off family property to Tvind, at a bargain price, with the support of the then St Lucia Prime Minister, John Compton. Roy Lawaetz, then a journalist, fought a battle to prevent the forced sale, but lost. This is his story. Roy's story
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Orange Hill Estate
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French Polynesia
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La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
El Varadero del
Orinoco
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Virgin Islands
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Newspaper reports
In about 1991 Tvind claimed it had sold all its plantations. This was greeted with wry amusement by the Danish press. There was speculation that Faelleseje had simply set up a new raft of companies and sold the plantations to itself.
Fazenda
Floryl Correntina, Bahia provice.
(88,000 hectares, tropical rainforest and hardwoods) with bananas, sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit
and eucalyptus trees, which are used to manufacture cellulose. Tvind bought the farm on
22 September 1994 from Shell for the sum of $9,250,000 (US dollars).
Of
this they paid $3.25 million cash, while the rest is paid in yearly instalments
of $750.000. Reliable calculations show, that the Danes have spent 11 million
krone on the plantation since 1993. [Ekstra Bladet]
According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tvind is cutting down the rain
forest here. Investigative article
Big River Melons
______________________________________________
Cayman Islands
Furtherland Mango
farm
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
El Salvador
San Chico Banana, sugar
La
Cabana Rice
__________________________________________________
Mozambique Cashew plantations
__________________________________
Tvind may own farm land in Portugal. See information
suggested in a memo sent to Tvind Alert in 1999: farms
in Portugal (in French)
__________________________________
Mt
Lezard Estate (1986)
Park Estate
See also:
The story of the Tvind plantations in St
Lucia
In 1986 Roy Lawaetz found that his elderly father had come under pressure to sell off family property to Tvind, at a bargain price, with the support of the then St Lucia Prime Minister, John Compton. Roy Lawaetz, then a journalist, fought a battle to prevent the forced sale, but lost. This is his story. Roy's story
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Orange Hill Estate
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French Polynesia
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El Chispero
Las Canitas
El Varadero del
Orinoco
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Virgin Islands
Newspaper reports
In about 1991 Tvind claimed it had sold all its plantations. This was greeted with wry amusement by the Danish press. There was speculation that Faelleseje had simply set up a new raft of companies and sold the plantations to itself.