Funeral Director Daily
As of last Friday, June 4, we were over five months into the 2021 calendar year. Funeral Director Daily decided it was time to take a look at where the Death Care stocks were in relation to the stock market indices up to that day. What we found out is that the stocks of companies…
An article entitled “Relational Spending in Funerals: Caring for others loved and lost” appeared in the March edition of the Journal of Consumer Psychology. The research for the article was done by assistant marketing Professor Sarah Whitley of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. In this article about the study you can read…
Sometimes at Funeral Director Daily we get too wrapped up in mergers and acquisitions, in financial news, and in things like new products to the profession. Those things are all interesting and are necessary to know if we want to make the services that we offer to the public profitable for us. But, it is…
Three University of Washington students recently won the $25,000 grand prize in a start-up competition hosted by the University of Washington’s Foster School Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. And, they did so with a pre-launch Death Care start-up they have named AfterLife Listings. Clara Kobashigawa, one of the three students was mentioned in this article from…
It was announced last week in this press release that Orlando, Florida based Foundation Partners Group has acquired the Atkins-Northland Funeral Home & Cremation Service located in Cloquet, Minnesota. According to the press release, this addition brings the Foundation Partner Group count in Minnesota to six locations. Again, according to the release, the acquired funeral…
I’m a fan of Warren Buffett and his company, Berkshire Hathaway. Matter of fact, I enjoy reading his annual shareholder letter because it just doesn’t tell how his businesses are doing, it explains to the reader why he is in those businesses and how he makes money for his shareholders. Back in 1936 a gentleman…
Over the years that I have done the research for the articles that appear in Funeral Director Daily, among others, I have noticed two trends that are definitely growing in the death care world. One of those trends is that of Green or Natural burials. Virtually every day when I look for articles that will…
As we gather to celebrate Memorial Day 2021 it has been just over a year since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. I don’t live too far from Minneapolis and that incident has not only rocked that city and my area, but has been an incident heard all over the world. Add to that…
My own historical family businesses are a perfect example of the evolution of a business to fit the consumer and stay relevant. Back in 1872 my great-grandfather arrived in the New World with a skill as a cabinet maker. He set up shop and when people died family members approached him about building a coffin…
I served as a funeral director in a small town and when somebody died, the news got out. There can be a difference between a death notice and an obituary or an obituary can serve as both. In America we have closed over 2,000 newspapers since the year 2000 and many communities no longer have…
