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Last week I learned about, what I might classify as extraordinary and possibly trend setting – if one can say that about funeral establishments – new funeral home that opened recently in London. The business named “Exit Here” was conceived by British restauranteer Oliver Peyton and his business partner, Barry Pritchard, a third generation funeral…
Read MoreAs we go into the weekend we just thought we would update our readers with some new construction going on in the death care business. The following articles pertain to individual or family owned businesses either being started or being expanded. As we have seen many times with the ideas of proposed crematories — there…
Read MoreLast week Park Lawn Corporation CEO Andrew Clark and CFO James Leeder commented on the company’s 3rd quarter results and also took questions from analysts about the company’s performance. You can read the transcript here. I have, however, taken the liberty to pull out some of the comments that we thought would be of the…
Read MoreRecompose, the private company that has been established to become the first company to use “human composting” as a method of final disposition is continuing to move ahead with their plans. There is a very good article that we found in the Seattle Times, that you can read here, that makes note of the fact…
Read MoreThis afternoon we will bring you a couple of items that recently appeared in print publications about public companies in the death care business. From the Philadelphia Business Journal we bring you this article on StoneMor Partners. It is entitled, “StoneMor slims down executive ranks, plans divestitures for bid for profitability”. We believe it is a…
Read MoreI received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 — in a class of about 40 males and one female. That is just the way it was. . .there were no young women going into the business at that time. Today, the mortuary science classes at my alma mater are about 70%…
Read MoreSometimes the way we communicate is overlooked and can, over time, creep costs upward and move operational productivity down at the same time. Things like internet services and the providers that we use need to be reviewed every so often. InvoCare, which operates 290 funeral locations and 16 cemeteries across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore…
Read MoreMonday morning I received a call from a lady I know who works tirelessly with the community’s Junior Achievement organization. She mentioned that they were looking for some new board members and she wondered if I would be interested in serving. My first thought was, “I don’t need more board positions”. I’ve served on a…
Read MoreLast week Canadian based public company funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation released its 3rd Quarter and 9-month results for 2019. You can see them here. The fast growing company reported 2019 3Q revenues of $66.5 million as compared to 2018 3rd Quarter revenues of $43.2 million. . .an increase of 54%. They…
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