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The sad, but profitable 2020 funeral business year

By Funeral Director Daily / January 14, 2021 /

There is no doubt that 2020 has been a different year in so many ways.  Even a hundred years from now it will be remembered as the COVID-19 pandemic year. And, in many ways, it has been a very rough year for funeral service.  This radio and print report that you can read and/or listen…

Foundation Partners adds New Mexico locations

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2021 /

It didn’t take long into 2021 to hear of news on the acquisition front.  This press release will tell you of the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) acquisition of three funeral homes in New Mexico. According to the press release the company acquired the Riverside Funeral Homes located in Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and Santa Fe, New…

What is the proper storage protocol in a pandemic

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2021 /

Over the last few days and weeks we have seen a surge in COVID related deaths in areas that had not necessarily had a surge in them yet.  Over the course of the past ten months we have seen peaks and valleys in different localities during the course of this pandemic.  We’ve also seen recent…

Indiana funeral directors deal with double whammy. . . .COVID deaths and new death certificate system

By Funeral Director Daily / January 12, 2021 /

Have you ever been really, really busy and then as you try to get something done, nothing seems to work correctly?  It seems like that happens to me a lot.  Well, it is happening to our colleagues in the state of Indiana where they have recently surpassed the 8,200 number of deaths from COVID-19. Not…

MarketBeat comments on Carriage Services stock

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2021 /

In a report from last week, MarketBeat made comments about the stock of Carriage Services.  You can read the article here where MarketBeat states that one analyst rates Carriage Services a “Sell”, one analyst reports Carriage Services a “Hold”, and three analysts rate the company a “Buy”. The report also points out, over the past…

Treasure seeker pleads guilty in Fort Yellowstone Cemetery charges

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2021 /

It was reported in this press release from the United States Attorneys District of Wyoming office that a treasure seeker in the Forrest Fenn inspired treasure hunt had pleaded guilty to charges of “excavating or trafficking in archaeological resources, and injury or depredation to United States property” within Fort Yellowstone Cemetery. This is not the…

Service above self. . . . the funeral director in 2020

By Funeral Director Daily / January 8, 2021 /

As we move into the weekend we bring you some reading material including an article on how the indigent funeral program in Ohio has more requests than usual because of a combination of not only COVID-19 deaths, but an uptick in opioid deaths as well. We also bring you a video and news story out…

2020: A look back at the public companies

By Funeral Director Daily / January 7, 2021 /

There are a lot of reasons that people may look to get the year 2020 in their rearview mirror.  However, when you look individually at the performance of the public companies in the death care realm for the calendar year, my guess is that almost all of them would be happy to repeat the year’s…

Fearless predictions for the coming year

By Funeral Director Daily / January 6, 2021 /

Today’s is one of those articles that I enjoy writing. . . pure speculation on my part and if I am wrong with my thought process no one really knows until later in the year when this article has been all but forgotten. Funeral Director Daily is taking today to take a speculative look into…

Cemeteries: Do you have the “right” inventory to succeed?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 5, 2021 /

There is an old saying about location, location, location.  However, if you are in the sales business you know you have to have the proper inventory also. We have a lot of subscribers in the cemetery business at Funeral Director Daily.  Some of these subscribers work for the big companies like Service Corporation, Park Lawn,…