Funeral Director Daily

A couple of choices for future success in the death care space

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2020 /

Now that I’ve finished reporting on the quarterly reports of the large “established” companies in the death care realm, I thought it would be interesting to give my insight on a couple of  companies  that I think have a great potential to  “grow” into larger companies or services in the future. And while Tribute Technology…

Matthews reports 4Q and Year End 2020: Memorialization segment is high point

By Funeral Director Daily / November 27, 2020 /

Our reports for the period of July thru September 2020 come to an end with today’s report on Matthews International.  Funeral Director Daily files reports every quarter on the eight public companies that make up our financial Death Care Index (DCI). Today’s report on Matthew’s International, which you can access here, encompasses the mentioned time…

Give Thanks this Thanksgiving

By Funeral Director Daily / November 24, 2020 /

I’m kind of tired of the word “unprecedented”.  It seems every time that I turn around someone is using that term in relation to the world and times we have been living in since February in the United States.  Yes, 2020 is different, but I’m not so sure that it is “unprecedented” for the upstaging…

Possible financial settlement in Michigan funeral home transgender case reported

By Funeral Director Daily / November 24, 2020 /

A little over a year ago we told you of the case of Aimee Stephens and the Harris Funeral Home.  That court case was about to be heard at the United States Supreme Court at that time which would be ruling on whether or not there had been discrimination against a transgender person in a…

Security National reports 3Q 2020: Hitting on all cylinders

By Funeral Director Daily / November 23, 2020 /

We continue to roll out the earnings reports of the public death care companies and today is no exception.  Today we tell you about one of the quieter companies that is starting to make a name for themselves as they grow. That company is Utah based Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) and divisions of the…

2020 and the realities of smaller cemeteries. . . Netherlands recommends alkaline hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / November 23, 2020 /

Over the last couple of years that I have published Funeral Director Daily, I’ve written on this topic a couple of times.  “This topic” is that of smaller association cemeteries and the financial plights more and more of them seem to be falling into.  I limit this discussion to “association cemeteries” simply because church cemeteries,…

Heading into the weekend . . . .

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2020 /

It’s Friday and we are heading into the weekend preceding the Thanksgiving holiday.  With all of the death care companies reporting earnings reports in the last couple of weeks and our coverage of those we have a few articles that we feel our readers should have access to, yet we are not able to feature…

Lessons learned from growing up as an FDK (Funeral Director’s Kid)

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2020 /

This article will be published on Friday morning because I figure it won’t be real business like, but it will be something that the reader can carry into the weekend.  Lots of people talk about PK’s – Preacher’s Kids – but there is another group of us who grew up in a funeral home or…

StoneMor reports 3rd Quarter: Turnaround continues to move forward

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2020 /

A couple of years ago I looked at StoneMor and their operations and told readers that they should, if they had a StoneMor competitor in their market, look at a possible acquisition of that competitor.  Quite frankly, I was of the opinion that the way StoneMor was moving would probably lead to a liquidation and…

Australia’s InvoCare pays US$ 36.4 million for pet cremation businesses

By Funeral Director Daily / November 18, 2020 /

You can read this article from Australia’s Market Herald that announced that Australia’s largest human funeral and cremation provider finalized a deal to purchase two pet cremation business in the country for a combined price of US $36.44 million ($49.8 million in Australian dollars). We learned that last week, InvoCare, purchased Family Pet Care and…