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Carriage Services announces acquisition and performance plan

By Funeral Director Daily / December 21, 2022 /

  Last week funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator Carriage Services announced the pending acquisition of Greenlawn Funeral Homes and Cemeteries of Bakersfield, California.  In the same press release, that you can read here, the company took the time to outline what they call their “High Performance and Credit Profile Restoration Plan” (HPCPRP).  …

Activist investors advocate for changes at Matthews

By Funeral Director Daily / December 20, 2022 /

  The first sentence from this article in The Star says all that needs to be said about what changes an investor group at Matthews International wants to take place, “Activist investor Barington Capital Group has built a stake in Matthews International Corp and argues the company needs to refresh its board, cut costs and…

Adapting to Change in 2023

By Funeral Director Daily / December 20, 2022 /

  Editor’s Note:  Today’s article comes from the blog at OneRoom.  It comes on the heels of a recent Funeral Director Daily article by Jake Johnson entitled  “A funeral home owner’s guide to prepping for 2023″.   Here’s OneRoom’s article on “Adapting to Change in 2023“:   As our environment continues to experience frequent change, safeguarding…

The Holidays and Grief

By Funeral Director Daily / December 19, 2022 /

Today marks the beginning of the Christmas week.  For many of us that means that we will be joyously reunited with family members we don’t get to see very often.  However, for almost three million American families it will be the first Christmas with a loved one missing from the celebration.  For them, it will…

Our Readers’ Top 5

By Funeral Director Daily / December 16, 2022 /

As we head into the weekend I’ve got some reading material for you.  As is our custom we present you with the Top Five most read articles on Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days.   It’s interesting to note that this month we have three articles that were originally published in the last…

Get registered for Peer Support

By Funeral Director Daily / December 15, 2022 /

  Our friends at Funeral Professionals Peer Support and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) have another timely peer support connection coming our way next Tuesday.   Christina Walton will be the facilitator.  Ms. Walton is a registered therapist specializing in bereavement and loss and she has been a licensed funeral director for 33…

The interesting ownership of New York’s Pinelawn Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / December 15, 2022 /

I live in flyover country so I don’t pretend to be an expert on the customs and traditions of New York’s funeral and cemetery business.  However, I’ve been in the death care business my entire life and never had heard of the business set-up of New York’s Pinelawn Cemetery.   I read a recent article…

Funeral Directors Life announces “Growth Rate” increase

By Funeral Director Daily / December 14, 2022 /

I happened to look at the cash sitting in my Money Market account the other day and noticed I was receiving more interest than I had been recently.  I took out my calculator and realized that my John Hancock Money Market account was paying me 3% interest.  For savers, that’s the upside of the Federal…

StoneMor has new CEO

By Funeral Director Daily / December 13, 2022 /

Joe Redling led cemetery and funeral home operator StoneMor through a time of transition.  That transition culminated with the public company being taken private in a buy-out from Axar Capital Management in early November 2022.  While the company is now a private enterprise concern and Funeral Director Daily has no access to its financial operations,…

Ovum Fungi — a new disposition method??

By Funeral Director Daily / December 13, 2022 /

Every once in a while during my searches for Funeral Director Daily topics I’ll come across something I wasn’t aware of in the death care industry.  Today I bring you information on what is called the “Ovum Fungi”.  This is a product that this press release and the company website refers to as “an eco-friendly…