pet funerals

News on the InvoCare / TPG Capital potential takeover

By Funeral Director Daily / March 20, 2023 /

    As of Friday, March 17 we scoured our sources for any news on if the takeover of leading Australian death care provider InvoCare by United States based private equity firm TPG Capital was moving forward.  It’s hard to say what is happening as it appears to look more and more like a “hostile”…

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Is a Pet Crematory in your future?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 23, 2022 /

Every week as I’m looking researching through death care articles looking for topics to write on for Funeral Director Daily I will come across an article from some United States newspaper announcing that the local funeral home has just added pet cremation services to its line of service offerings. I’ve also seen, as this article…

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Seeing more trends in pet care

By Funeral Director Daily / February 25, 2020 /

Those of you who have followed this publication for any length of time know that I like to hypothesize on what I see are trends in business.  And, you’ve also seen my post sometimes in reference to serving on the board of the University of Minnesota. One of my fun things to do now is…

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Is pet death care the new cremation?

By Funeral Director Daily / July 19, 2019 /

A couple of things happened on Thursday (yesterday) that put the idea for this article in my mind.  First of all, I was involved in a brain-storming session that centered partly on how to reduce tuition costs for college students.  And then, later in the afternoon I was watching the business channel, CNBC, as I…

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Crematory Addition Leads to New Business

By Funeral Director Daily / August 1, 2018 /

According to this article from the Pine Journal, Bob and Karen Atkins operate the Atkins-Northland Funeral Home and Crematory in Cloquet, Minnesota.  The couple is responsible for a business with a volume of about 160 deaths annually and when the cremation percentage started to rise they decided to put in a human crematory instead of…

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Massachusetts community to vote on Municipal Pet Crematory

By Funeral Director Daily / April 24, 2018 /

Two years ago the Massachusetts Cape Cod community of Harwich approved the transfer of land to the cemetery commission to build a pet cemetery for the community.  Roads and paths are being put in, landscaping has been done and the project even won an innovation award from the Massachusetts Municipal Association. Now, according to this…

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