Funeral Director Daily
Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), the Utah based company that has three separate business segments including those that operate in the retail mortuary and cemetery space, the preneed insurance space, and is also the parent company of C & J Financial, had very mixed results in the 1st Quarter of 2022 as seen in their…
Memorial Day where I grew up and continue to live, Alexandria, Minnesota, is the un-official start of the summer. My community is surrounded by lakes and Summer is special. . . . all of the seasonal residents move to town and the community is also filled with tourists through Labor Day. Golf and boating season…
We are coming up on Memorial Day weekend. For me it is always a time for reflection on the good that America has done over the years on the world stage and a time to honor and respect those that were willing to put their lives on the line for others. That duty has always…
A.W. Lymn Funeral Directors of Great Britain is taping funerals from above using drones. They then put it to music and incorporate the product into a disc or upload to You Tube to create a lasting memory for the family. Access is then given to those who attended so they can re-watch in their own…
In a press release issued at the beginning of business yesterday, Wednesday May 25, StoneMor Inc. announced that the company had agreed to a “definitive merger agreement under which a subsidiary of Axar Capital Management, LP (“Axar”) will be merged with and into StoneMor and all outstanding shares of StoneMor common stock not owned by…
I operated a funeral home business for over 33 years. When I started in 1980 the only benefits offered were health insurance and paid vacation. Over the next 33 years we changed with the times and I came to approve benefits that included not only health care and paid vacation, but also a 401k -like…
In the shadows of the failure of preneed funding vehicle Safe Hands Plans, the British government is being urged to set up a fund for those that have lost funds through the collapse of Safe Hands Plans. As you may know, the British preneed industry is to come under the purveyance of the country’s Financial…
Here’s what StoneMor Inc. CEO Joe Redling had to say about the company’s 1st Quarter of 2022 during the company’s earnings call on May 12 which you can access here, “During the first quarter, we achieve(d) 4% year-over-year growth in our pre-need sales production. And this is against the first quarter of 2021. That was…
Every week as I’m looking researching through death care articles looking for topics to write on for Funeral Director Daily I will come across an article from some United States newspaper announcing that the local funeral home has just added pet cremation services to its line of service offerings. I’ve also seen, as this article…
I’m always on the look out for whatever I can find that puts me at the front edge of “change” in the death care profession. Change in our profession used to happen pretty slow. . . . from home visitations to funeral homes, from wood caskets to metal caskets, to the slow methodical march of…
