Recent Posts
- 15 hours 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
- 23 hours 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
- 2 days agoToday’s Funeral Director Daily Afternoon Edition brings you some information about public companies in the news as well as a Maine community issuing the paperwork for the Midcoast Crematory to
- 2 days agoI’m taking the time today and tomorrow to re-run articles from last November on funeral home budgeting. I posted these articles last year and had many positive comments and since we have many
- 3 days agoWe found a lot of information over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that we thought was worthy of distribution to you. Included in today’s message you will find information on our
Business
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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
November 30, 2020Now that I’ve finished reporting on the quarterly reports of the large “established” companies in the death [...]
- Give Thanks this Thanksgiving
- Will we look back at 2020 as a “high water mark” for change in the funeral profession
- New Mexico funeral home fined for social distancing violation
Finance
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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
November 19, 2020A couple of years ago I looked at StoneMor and their operations and told readers that they should, if they had a StoneMor [...]
- Australia’s InvoCare pays US$ 36.4 million for pet cremation businesses
- Park Lawn reports 3rd Quarter. . . .continued growth
- International acquisitions – Propel adds Kiwi firms, Ontario firm happy after one year
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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The future of Death Tech from Forbes, LGBTQ funeral home settlement, Arlington Wreaths Across America
December 2, 2020Only a couple of days after I gave you my thoughts on what new companies might be winners in the death care profession I stumbled [...] -
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 [...] -
Service Corp to benefit military, Matthews corporate news and research, crematory opening in Maine after town vote
December 1, 2020Today’s Funeral Director Daily Afternoon Edition brings you some information about public companies in the news as well as [...]
- Funeral Home Budgeting. . . the expense side
- New national cemetery to open, Guidance on PPP loan expenses, Self-Care webinar available
- A couple of choices for future success in the death care space
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
