Funeral Director Daily
In my home state of Minnesota there is a sports writer who every Thanksgiving creates an article and makes a case for the worst person or thing that has happened on the Minnesota sports scene in the past year. I’ve taken some inspiration from that but have also taken into account something my mom drilled…
Last week Hillenbrand Industries reported their Fiscal Year 4th Quarter of 2022 and their Year End results for Fiscal Year 2022. It is noted that Hillenbrand operates on an annual fiscal year calendar from October 1 to September 30. Over the years Hillenbrand has moved from a company predominantly based in the death care business…
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest columnist is Jake Johnson, CEO of Johnson Consulting Group. His article begins here: It’s no secret to anyone right now that businesses everywhere are feeling the impacts of inflation. The funeral profession specifically has seen a rise in costs, and it’s resulted in increased stress and pressure on owners. These…
In the 3rd Quarter of 2022 earnings release for Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) released earlier this week, Scott M. Quist, the company’s President stated, “2022 is continuing to be a challenging year for our Company due primarily to the dramatic rise in inflation and interest rates, and the dramatic fall in equity values. In…
Earlier this week I was informed by a Funeral Director Daily reader that online price lists have started to appear on the websites of Service Corporation International (SCI) funeral homes. Just to be clear, I’m not sure that this is news or not — because I’ve never taken the time to check out individual SCI…
You have all heard it said many times, especially because we are in the funeral business, “You can’t take it with you“. That refers to taking your bank accounts to the great beyond and spending money there. But, according to an article in Forbes Magazine, you can earn a lot of money posthumously. As a…
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven –“. That is the first verse in Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 and the 2nd verse goes on to say “A time to give birth, and a time to die“. Any funeral director who has ever spent time on a…
In a press release made public on the heels of the company’s 3rd Quarter report, Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), with headquarters in Houston, Texas, and Toronto, Ontario, announced that they had acquired the Schrader, Aragon & Jacoby Funeral Home, Mountain View Memorial Park, and Bustard & Jacoby Funerals, Cremation, Monuments and Receptions of Cheyenne and…
2022 marked a point in the history of Great Britain’s largest death care provider, Dignity plc, where they planned to increase consumer market share for their services by lowering their prices. What they maybe didn’t anticipate was the highest inflationary pressures in the last 40 years on the costs of their services to happen at…
