Funeral Director Daily

Top Stories: Revenue growth, tariffs, acquistions, perceptions, ransoms — there’s an article for every interest in our “Best Read”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2025 /

  Wow!!  The middle of the month seems to have got here fast and with it comes our list of “Top Read” Funeral Director Daily articles over the past 30 days.   This month it looks like there is something for everybody’s interest.  Our top-rated articles cover subjects like revenue growth, potential casket tariffs, consumer…

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Private Equity makes investment in Alkaline Hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2025 /

  When an investment is made in a business venture the investor has high hopes for a multiple return on their investment.  That can certainly be said for private equity companies who make some of those investments.   Unlike individual investors where passion may fuel the investment, most private equity investments are done with a…

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“Equal Deathcare”: New group insinuates that funeral directors, funeral homes are places of “Exclusivity”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 16, 2025 /

    “We were surprised — and not surprised at the same time — to find that none of the websites, no matter where they were from, demonstrated any inclusivity.”   I read that statement, which is about funeral home websites, somewhat in astonishment.  You see, I’ve been in the Death Care business for over…

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Becoming. . . .”A Direct Cremation Nation”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2025 /

  In the years that I’ve been publishing Funeral Director Daily I’ve witnessed those in Great Britain become concerned because approximately 20% of the country’s deaths have been memorialized with only a “Direct Cremation”.   Just so we are on the same wave length for purposes of this article’s discussion, here is how one British company…

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CANA supported Peer Support Group: “Take a break before you need a break”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 14, 2025 /
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  Caring for the caregiver.  That’s something I learned a long time ago — if the caretaker is not cared for how can they expect to care for others?   That’s what I was reminded of when I looked at the topic for tomorrow night’s CANA (Cremation Association of North America) supported participatory “Peer Support…

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Grieving in a Digital world

By Funeral Director Daily / April 14, 2025 /

    Shortly after my mother died in 2011 I discovered an untitled cassette tape in the drawer of her big roll-top desk.  Being curious I popped it into an old cassette tape player to see what was on it.  To my surprise it contained an interview that one of my brothers did for a…

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Seeking Alpha says SCI will “benefit from an aging population”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 11, 2025 /

    Investor network Seeking Alpha published an article last week in regards to investment opportunities in the largest publicly-held Death Care operator Service Corporation International (SCI).  The article was titled, “Service Corporation:  Benifiting from Aging Population, Strong Buy”.   From my point of view I will not go into the article but tell you…

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10 Years of Pure Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / April 10, 2025 /

  There has probably not been a Death Care company that had as rapid an accension as British direct cremation provider Pure Cremation.  Founded in 2015 as a direct cremation company by the husband and wife team of Bryan and Catherine Powell history shows that the company conducted about 1,000 cremations in 2017 and about…

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Acquisitions, mergers, new owners seem to be the norm now in funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / April 9, 2025 /
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  It’s been predicted that the next couple of years could see massive ownership changes in the business of funeral homes.  While the public companies in the business generally let us know of their acquisitions via press releases and quarterly earnings reports it is a little harder to get an idea on what is happening…

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Trump’s tariffs and caskets

By Funeral Director Daily / April 8, 2025 /

    The tariffs that President Trump put into effect this week seems to be the subject in every room that I step into.  We even talked about it at after church coffee on Sunday.  So, why not try to give some type of opinion on how those tariffs will affect the major manufactured product…

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