Funeral Director Daily
I’ve always had this habit of looking at a statement of fact, tried to look behind the numbers, and then tried to figure out how what I learned or discovered might help me in my funeral home business. When I operated my funeral business, I was concerned about giving great service to my client families,…
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Late last year we brought you information on the Canadian on-line cremation start-up Eirene. The company started in the Greater Toronto area and has announced in this press release that they will be expanding in Ontario. Mallory Greene, founder and CEO of Eirene had this to say, “We built Eirene with a conviction that Canadians…
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Last week we received news that Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based funeral, cremation, and cemetery business operator made another acquisition that added eight death care locations to its portfolio as well as a pet death center. The company purchased Cascade Funeral Directors, Inc. (Cascade) which encompassed the aforementioned companies. The acquisition added locations in…
Read MoreCiting “a threat to public health” the South Coast Air Quality Management District relaxed rules pertaining to cremation in Los Angeles County last week. The ruling, according to this article from National Public Radio, will lift limits on the number of cremations that can be conducted monthly by crematory operators. An official for the agency…
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As we wrap up another week at Funeral Director Daily we bring you some news that is seeming to happen because of the COVID situation and some news that just continues to happen as business opportunities present themselves regardless of the COVID situation across the world. Our first item, that we cannot remember happening in…
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Funeral Director Daily has a few readers in the English speaking parts of the world outside of North America. We have followers in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. However, it is not too often that we get news from those regions. Today, we are bringing you three articles from various parts of the world.…
Read MoreIt was recently reported that California passed the three million mark in the number of documented COVID-19 cases and passed the 33,000 mark in death due to COVID-19. According to several sources, that great number has caused some funeral homes to stop accepting new death call cases. That has caused Dignity Memorial director Anthony Lampe…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily has written a lot of articles in the past year about how busy funeral homes have been with death calls. It’s just the way it has been for funeral homes in the year of COVID. What we have not done is find any articles on how suppliers are very busy. We have…
Read MoreToday’s Afternoon Edition features several articles that we found interesting over the MLK holiday weekend. We’ll leave it to you to see which interest you and your choice of reading. However, there are some interesting articles. For instance, one article states that some funeral homes in California are actually having to turn away death calls…
Read MoreI read this article entitled “Everyone dies, so why not go out as a tree?” from Denverite magazine. I even smile as I write this but it made me think of craft beer. I’m not alcohol free. I had of my share of beer. . . especially in my twenties. Today, however, I’m more for…
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