Funeral Director Daily
I’ve written before in this medium that a big-part of my business strategy philosophy North Star came from reading the book “Megatrends” by John Naisbitt in 1982. Naisbitt’s best-seller predicted 10 trends that would change behavior, including consumer behavior, over the next generation. From reading that book, I realized that if you want to…
As you are well aware of two large-scale earthquakes occured in Venezuela last week. As I write this article on Saturday morning June 27, the official death toll in the country is listed at 920 but there are tens of thousands reported missing. Some sources estimate that the death toll could reach over 50,000…
I noticed this article in Yahoo Finance this week proclaiming that “Your 401(k) match may not be as generous as it once was“. Here’s what peaked my interest as I read this article, “Employers are acutely aware of the value of helping employees save for retirement, but their recent actions are at odds…
Propel Funeral Partners recently announced that they had acquired three funeral businesses that operate out of four separate properties and do an approximate combined 700 services annually. The company announced that the aggregate revenue of the businesses is US$ 2.8 million and the total “earn out” price paid will be US$ 6.37 million. …
We learned last week from this article in the Peterborough (Ontario) Examiner that the Hendren Funeral Homes have sold their three funeral homes to Opus Tribute Group. According to the article, “Opus Tribute Group is a community governed, not-for-profit organization that has been in existence for more than 175 years starting out as Little…
It’s been about three years since we told you that Producer Dean Jones and actor Kevin Sorbo were filming the production of a movie based on the real-life of funeral director Danny Jefferson. Jefferson had been honored as the American Funeral Director magazine “Funeral Director of the Year in 2017”. The film,…
Everstory Partners the cemetery heavy company that operates more than 460 cemeteries, funeral homes, and crematories in the United States and Puerto Rico announced last week that they had acquired the Franklin Memorial Park in central New Jersey. You can read about the transaction from the Everstory Partners website here. The cemetery…
Pizza Hut, Batesville, and CANA? A reader sent me an article earlier this week that brings these three topics into a Venn diagram sort of picture for me. First of all, the article sent to me, which you can access here, was concerning the purchase of Pizza Hut (all except the Mainland…
When I was a practicing funeral director I was well aware of safety concerns at the cemetery when the casket was lowered into the vault and grave. Our good friends from Wilbert Vault were usually the ones who did that work and I always respected their space while doing so. Most of the time…
When you think about it, the death of a loved one sets in motion a chain of events that, in many instances and dependent on family economics, cannot be stopped. There is the death, the disposition and/or services, and the wrapping up of the estate, or as commonly called, the estate settlement process. …
