Ingleby Farms & Forests

Ingleby Farms & Forests is a multi-national agricultural corporation, with a head office in Køge in Denmark.

[2] It owns significant farming interests in New Zealand, Romania, Argentina, Latvia, Lithuania, the United States, Australia and Perú.

In 2005 it purchased the 1838 property Bowood for AUD$7.75 million and in 2011 purchased the 1839 Georgian Symmons Plains Estate from the Youl family for AUD$10 million.

[4] They received heavy criticism for allegedly overpaying for properties to cut locals out of the market, particularly in their NZ$4.2 million purchase of Katoa Station, Gisborne District, in 2007.

It owns around 11,000 hectares (27,000 acres), making it the largest single land owner in the country.