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According to this article from the Cape Breton Post, the Nova Scotia, Canada Board of Registration of Embalmers and Funeral Directors is offering two seats on their public board to members of the general public. The board has always been set up with only members from the funeral service profession or members nominated by the…
Read MoreToday we bring you this great human interest story of 21 year old New Zealand funeral director and embalmer Ethyn Milliken. In today’s world where it is sometimes hard to find employees in the funeral profession you will see from this story that great future funeral directors may be just around the corner or that…
Read MoreCarriage Services is a funeral home and cemetery acquisition company that, according to Reuters, operated 181 funeral homes in 29 states and operated 32 cemeteries in 11 states as of August 28,2018. According to their own history from their web-site they were founded in 1991 and had their initial public offering (IPO) to become a…
Read MoreIt’s Springtime and we are heading into a weekend. . . here are just three stories we noticed in the press this morning that we thought we would share with our readers. . . Mausoleum problems in New York. Read about it here. Indiana funeral home employee sentenced to probation for theft of funds. Read…
Read MoreAn article that you can read here appeared in today’s issue of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reflecting the fact that the urn of pop star Prince has been taken away from the public space at his Paisley Park home/museum. The article goes on to say that family members are somewhat in disagreement about the proper…
Read MoreSome of the best ideas for the business end of the funeral profession that I received came from other industries. I also think that you can learn from other countries and cultures. In this article from the South China Morning Post Chinese funeral home company Fu Shou Yuan looks towards the future and says that…
Read MoreVirtually every week that I follow articles on the death care industry I will see an article like this one from CBS Local in New York that pertains to a neighborhood group banding together to stop the construction of a new crematory in their area. This article, which includes a news video, comes from Middletown…
Read MoreFor the last half century the funeral industry has seen tremendous growth of multiple firm businesses getting that growth not necessarily thru growing sales, but by acquisition of other firms. Firms that wanted to grow by acquisition had to be ready when a firm from down the road came up for sale, which in many…
Read MoreFor those of you who follow the public companies in the death care industry we at Funeral Director Daily have initiated coverage of what we call the Death Care Index (DCI) for the last couple of years to help you get a context of how our industry is comparing to the market as a whole. …
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