Funeral Director Daily
It was announced last Friday that Park Lawn Corporation had acquired the Malcolm, Deavitt & Binhammer Funeral Home Limited. The one building standalone funeral home is located in Pembroke, Ontario. The funeral home, according to this press release from Park Lawn Corporation, “performs approximately 153 calls per year.” Here’s what J. Bradley Green, Chief Executive…
As you can see from this Yahoo Finance article, Axar Capital Management has sent StoneMor Inc. a letter expressing “an interest in pursuing discussions concerning strategic alternatives that may be beneficial to the Company and its various stakeholders.” As you may know, and according to E-Trade, Axar Capital Management currently owns 88.6 million of the 118…
Last weekend people in Charlotte, North Carolina, had the opportunity to see a truck drive around the area with this message on the sides and rear, “Don’t get vaccinated: Wilmore Funeral Home“. According to this article from CNet, the truck sparked a viral buzz. Turns out that there is no Wilmore Funeral Home and if…
It’s just human nature that the newest thing gets the publicity. On Super Bowl Monday every headline is about the Super Bowl game and the champions but by Friday of that week America is on to the next big thing. . . on the sports calendar that is sometimes the Daytona 500. Well, moving on…
In today’s Afternoon Edition we bring you some items of interest from our friends at Johnson Consulting Group, Clifton Larson Allen, and the National Funeral Directors Association. From Johnson Consulting it is things to know about taxes. . . From CLA it is how you can turn challenges into opportunities. . .and from our friends…
I read this recent article from Yahoo Finance where the COO of Salesforce, Bret Taylor, states that if he was starting a company in today’s world he would first start with the company’s “Digital Headquarters” rather than an operational physical headquarters. That statement alone shows the “mega shift” in business, workforce, and consumer acquisition thought…
This is the week that Congress should act on the Biden Administration’s key piece of legislation, the $3.5 trillion “Human Infrastructure” bill. Regardless of what happens or how you feel about that bill, I thought it would be interesting to look back on how death care has fared from the other two large social bills…
I don’t know if it is just me or others see it too. For years funeral directors seemed to work in anonymity, but when someone called us we were always there to answer. However, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I seem to think that funeral directors and morticians are finally seen in our society for…
