Recent Posts
- 11 hours agoI’m not a bah, humbug type of guy. . . .I actually love the holidays. . .all of them. However, shopping for a Christmas tree, dragging it home, and getting it set up is not one of my favorite
- 1 day agoLast week you could not turn on the news without hearing of the potential for the COVID-19 virus to spread rapidly because of Thanksgiving and other upcoming holiday travel. We found a couple of
- 1 day agoWe checked into Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) after the markets closed on Monday, the last day of November. That check-in allowed us to take a look at the eight
- 2 days agoOnly a couple of days after I gave you my thoughts on what new companies might be winners in the death care profession I stumbled across an article from Forbes entitled, “The Future of Death
- 2 days agoAs we told you yesterday, we are re-running our budgeting articles that received such good response from funeral home operators in November 2019. Budgeting is, well, budgeting, but there are always
Business
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Weekend Edition. . . milestones, cleaning off the desk. . .some information for our readers
December 4, 2020I’m not a bah, humbug type of guy. . . .I actually love the holidays. . .all of them. However, shopping for a Christmas [...] -
Funeral Home Budgeting — The revenue side
December 2, 2020As we told you yesterday, we are re-running our budgeting articles that received such good response from funeral home operators [...] -
Funeral Home Budgeting. . . the expense side
December 1, 2020I’m taking the time today and tomorrow to re-run articles from last November on funeral home budgeting. I posted these [...]
- A couple of choices for future success in the death care space
- Give Thanks this Thanksgiving
- Will we look back at 2020 as a “high water mark” for change in the funeral profession
Finance
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Death Care Index still lags the market
December 3, 2020We checked into Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) after the markets closed on Monday, the last [...] -
Matthews reports 4Q and Year End 2020: Memorialization segment is high point
November 27, 2020Our reports for the period of July thru September 2020 come to an end with today’s report on Matthews International. [...] -
Security National reports 3Q 2020: Hitting on all cylinders
November 23, 2020We continue to roll out the earnings reports of the public death care companies and today is no exception. Today we tell you [...]
- StoneMor reports 3rd Quarter: Turnaround continues to move forward
- Australia’s InvoCare pays US$ 36.4 million for pet cremation businesses
- Park Lawn reports 3rd Quarter. . . .continued growth
Cremation
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What to do with unclaimed cremation remains
November 9, 2020The article that I just read was all about Cremation #17263 that was left at the York, Nebraska, non-profit known as Blue Valley [...] -
Better Place Forests adds Minnesota property
October 22, 2020A little over a year ago Funeral Director Daily brought you this article introducing Better Place Forests to our readers. At [...] -
Parting Stone keeps moving forward
October 15, 2020It is not everyday that a new category for the consumer to choose from comes along. A new category has to be so unique that [...]
- How direct cremation pioneer Pure Cremation has disrupted the UK’s funeral industry
- Black smoke rising. . . bad PR for crematories
- COVID-19 and Cremation. . .more cremation. . what could it mean
Regulations
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Weekend Edition. . . milestones, cleaning off the desk. . .some information for our readers
December 4, 2020I’m not a bah, humbug type of guy. . . .I actually love the holidays. . .all of them. However, shopping for a Christmas [...] -
Potential COVID surge has states thinking death care, state budget surprises
December 3, 2020Last week you could not turn on the news without hearing of the potential for the COVID-19 virus to spread rapidly because of [...] -
Death Care Index still lags the market
December 3, 2020We checked into Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) after the markets closed on Monday, the last [...]
- The future of Death Tech from Forbes, LGBTQ funeral home settlement, Arlington Wreaths Across America
- Funeral Home Budgeting — The revenue side
- Service Corp to benefit military, Matthews corporate news and research, crematory opening in Maine after town vote
Cemetery
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2020 and the realities of smaller cemeteries. . . Netherlands recommends alkaline hydrolysis
November 23, 2020Over the last couple of years that I have published Funeral Director Daily, I’ve written on this topic a couple of times. [...] -
Lessons learned from growing up as an FDK (Funeral Director’s Kid)
November 19, 2020This article will be published on Friday morning because I figure it won’t be real business like, but it will be something [...] -
Which side of the issue are you on
October 26, 2020I don’t think that there is any doubt that at one time we viewed cemeteries as a “place for the dead”. [...]
- The problem with cemeteries
- Recompose getting competitors. . . and that’s okay
- Arlington Cemetery Part 3: A personal story
Preneed
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Assurant reports 3Q 2020
November 18, 2020In late October Assurant hinted that they will be divesting what they call their Global Preneed business. That segment of their [...] -
Assurant looks to make changes. . .including divesting Global Preneed division
November 2, 2020Last week Assurant, the large financial conglomerate with operations in 21 countries, announced that they would acquire mobile [...] -
Preneed sales. . . . The Elevator Pitch
October 16, 2020The other day I wrote an article that was titled “Selling Preneed. . . .positively” which you can read here. [...]
- Selling preneed. . . . positively
- Come together . . . . .The Domani Group and Homesteaders Life Company
- Weekend Edition: SCI receives economic development aid, a difference of opinion in Winnipeg, a preneed ratings downgrade
Products
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A couple of choices for future success in the death care space
November 30, 2020Now that I’ve finished reporting on the quarterly reports of the large “established” companies in the death [...] -
Another funeral tech firm raises capital
November 9, 2020On Friday we published an article about funeral FinTech and software firm Tribute Technology fetching a reported “more than [...] -
Catching up with the casket business
November 5, 2020We are in the period of public companies reporting their 3rd Quarter results to the world and it is only a couple of weeks before [...]
- Playing the “What if” game
- Better Place Forests adds Minnesota property
- Parting Stone keeps moving forward
