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It’s summer time, the living is easy. . .and the mergers and acquisitions continue. .

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2022 /

There is a saying where I come from that says, “It’s summer time and the living is easy”.  It conjures up thoughts of being on the golf course, and at the lake, and evenings around the fire pit — in general just simple laid back easy times to relax with family and friends. From what…

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Legacy.com exceeding growth expectations

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2022 /

According to SimilarWeb, Legacy.com had its website visited over 49 million times in April 2022 and ranked as the #1 website in its category of interest, Community and Society, in the United States.  Again, according to SimilarWeb, the company increased its reach by 4.77% over the month of March 2022. With those kind of numbers…

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Death care stocks down 18% Year to Date

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2022 /

I read this interesting article on Saturday morning from Yahoo Finance’s Morning Brief entitled “What to expect from a recession everyone sees coming“.  The author of the article makes this statement, “. . . recessions can be mild and short if the causes are anticipated and less systemic, and more severe and longer if they…

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A Preneed “check-up”. . make sure you “Do it Right”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2022 /

Your funeral home has lots of options when it comes to the issue of Preneed.  For instance, in most states you have the choice of funding via Trust or Master Trust bank accounts or funding with life insurance vehicles. You also have the decision as to if you are going to guarantee the sale of…

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The Robert Kennedy funeral train. . . seems like times were simpler back then

By Funeral Director Daily / June 23, 2022 /

As we age it is interesting how things from the past can be brought back to memory.  It’s the season of political primaries and an article from the Ohio University Scripps College of Communication triggered a memory of mine back to the Summer of 1968. First of all, the article from Ohio University was in…

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The article from “D” Magazine

By Funeral Director Daily / June 22, 2022 /

In writing Funeral Director Daily I take pride in keeping up with what is happening in the Death Care profession and industry.  And, even though the occupation and the choices it has for consumers faced with death of a loved one moves along at a fairly slow and methodical pace, there are changes to keep…

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What everybody has been reading on Funeral Director Daily

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2022 /

We’ve burned through another month of feature stories at Funeral Director Daily.  If you have missed some of our feature stories, here are the stories that are readers viewed most often from May 16 through June 15. StoneMor agrees to Axar Capital Management buyout. Recognizing the “Cusp of Change” Security National’s 1st Quarter —  Memorial…

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Arbor Memorial named one of Canada’s “Best Managed Companies”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2022 /

There is an insurance company that used to use the slogan “The Quiet Company”.  That company was, and still is, known as one of the most successful life insurance companies in America. . . . The “Quiet Company” claim came, at least to my way of thinking, from the idea that they used captive agents…

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CANA marks First Year of Peer Support. . . Meeting Tuesday night

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2022 /

The Cremation Association of North America (CANA), in conjunction with Funeral Professionals Peer Support, celebrates its First Year of peer support meetings tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 21. In honor of the one-year anniversary of these meetings, Michael Dixon will open the meeting by sharing his personal journey that led him to founding Funeral Professionals Peer…

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Canadian company challenges funeral home status quo

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2022 /

Canadian company, Kinwood, issued this press release last month about a recent submission to the Competition Bureau that they say is “evidence to the Competition Bureau that shows the commercial funeral industry, and its regulator are stifling competition in the funeral sector”.  Kinwood CEO, Jeff Corcoran, is quoted with this comment in the press release,…

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