Funeral Director Daily
In today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily we bring you some interesting articles. Included among them is an article aimed at consumers that takes note on 10 misconceptions about cremation. We also have an article where politicians are wondering what they can do with a cemetery that is located in an area that they…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition we bring you opportunities to continue to learn with a webinar from Disrupt Media and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), a new podcast from the National Funeral Directors Association, and a useful article from Clifton Larson Allen on planning an exit from your business. We also have a couple…
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Last week Vrishali Bagree of Zacks presented an article that appeared on Nasdaq.com. It was entitled “Rising demand keeps funeral industry going: Four stocks to watch”. You can read that article here. In essence the article tells that the Zacks Funeral Services industry is housed within the broader Zacks Consumer Staples sector. According to the…
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Park Lawn Corporation, with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, and Houston, Texas, announced in a press release on October 1, that they had reached an agreement to acquire Bowers Funeral Service Ltd. of British Columbia. You can see the press release here. According to the press release, Bowers Funeral Service is a three location firm with…
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The “Get to Know Them” feature of Funeral Director Daily is meant to get our readers to know of others in the death care profession. . . many whom read our publication loyally. In learning who some of our readers are, I’ve been fascinated by all of the differing positions our industry comes in contact…
Read MoreIn the last couple of weeks we have seen headlines and television news stories about black smoke rising from crematory exhaust stacks. This article and news video from WSVN of Miami, Florida, shows what appears to be a problem from a crematory near the community’s Little Havana neighborhood. Steven Bedoya, an environmental specialist supervisor of…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that one of the costs that funeral homes have encountered in the past six months of the COVID world we find ourselves living in is cleaning and disinfecting the funeral home real estate. We’ve been told that sometimes it is even hard to find a commercial service that has an opening…
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When I researched and wrote a story about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being buried at Arlington National Cemetery little did I know it would lead to a Three-part series with Funeral Director Daily. However, the story triggered some memories in my life on what I knew about Arlington and, in today’s article, how I as…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily we bring you a “hodgepodge” of news stories. I’m not so sure that I know what “hodgepodge” means, but I’ve heard it used in situations where nothing seems to be relevant to anything else. . . . And, that is kind of how our death care news…
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