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Covid and parental death

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2022 /

At Funeral Director Daily we cover a lot of topics.  Many, or even most of our articles, deal with the financial operation of a business to help those in the business of death care make the choices they need to make as they move forward.  We also publish articles about the preneed industry and articles…

Death Care stocks not immune to recent downturn

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2022 /

If you had any money in the stock market during 2021 it would have been hard not to grow your investment cache.  During the 2021 calendar year the three indices most commonly referred to as a bellwether of the markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq, and the S & P 500 were up…

Traditions. . . .it’s good to remember them

By Funeral Director Daily / January 21, 2022 /

I enjoy learning.   I know that there is an awful lot left to learn by me in my lifetime.  And, it goes without saying that I love to learn more and more about the funeral profession because it was the profession that I earned my living in.  I’ve also found out that sometimes I learn…

The experts opine on Service Corporation and Carriage Services

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2022 /

We’ve now entered the season where public companies will give their reports on their 4th Quarter and Year End results from 2021.  As the death care companies report their results we will bring them to you. It’s also a season where financial and stock analysts like to give us their opinions on what has happened…

Titan Casket shows top-line growth in 2021

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2022 /

According to this article from Business Wire online retailer Titan Casket grew its revenues by 400% in 2021.  The company also disclosed that November 2021 was its “largest month ever”.   Titan was started in 2016 and allows consumers to purchase their caskets directly online for shipment to the funeral home of their choice. Titan Casket…

Canada’s Ontario province pulls out the stops to help funeral home staff shortages

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2022 /

This article and video news story from CTV Canada explains that because of a chronic shortage of death care workers coupled with an increased number of deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) “is calling retirees into service to fill out vacancies and for the first time, it’s allowing college…

Funeral Director Daily’s Top Stories of the Month

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2022 /

As we do each month, in case you missed one, we re-cap Funeral Director Daily’s “Top Stories of the Last 30 Days”.  Here are the top read stories selected by total page views for the dates of December 15 thru January 15. Foundation Partners announces new acquisition, record growth. Is this the start of the…

Smith Family Funeral Home adds two more Arkansas locations

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2022 /

Arkansas Business announced in their publication in early January the acquisition of two funeral home locations by Smith Family Funeral Homes of North Little Rock.  You can see that article here. Smith Family Funeral Homes acquired the Davis-Smith Funeral Homes located in Hot Springs and Glenwood, Arkansas.  The addition of these two properties brings the number…

Would a four-day work week impact funeral service?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 17, 2022 /

I’m not one to get too excited over talk. . . .but, I’m also a realist who believes that where there is smoke, there is fire.  And, it appears that the trend in America will not go to a longer work week. . . so, over time I’m guessing that we get to a shorter…

A new idea for permanent memorialization

By Funeral Director Daily / January 14, 2022 /

I would guess it was twenty years ago or about that length of time that I was asked to volunteer as a board member of our community’s largest non-denominational cemetery.  The cemetery was large enough and did enough business that it had a full-time caretaker who took care of sales, provided interment services using cemetery…