Funeral Director Daily
It’s the end of summer in Minnesota and lots of our friends get ready to embark on the journey to warmer climates soon. So, it is a good time to say good-bye to our summer Minnesotans and wish them well until we see them again next Spring. Angie and I did that last…
There’s always a risk when a funeral home firm acquires another location. There’s even more risk when a funeral home acquires a location that has had its license suspended by a state board of funeral directors. However, as you can read and view in this report from Pennsylvania’s WTAJ-TV News that’s exactly…
There is a lot to learn about a bill that is 870 pages long. While not as big as some bills such as the 906 pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 870 pages of regulations is a lot to digest. I don’t pretend to know everything about the One…
Every so often when I am researching for articles I stumble across something that really fascinates me. Well, it happened last week and I enjoyed using the information to decipher what the “Average Size” of a funeral home is/was in the United States according to data compiled in 2023 which means that most of…
Funeral homes are a great study on this subject. With many being “Generational” in nature, have you ever wondered why some generational funeral homes stay “status quo” as the next generation takes over and other funeral homes either decline or grow in success with the same generation leadership changes? I think it is…
A recent opinion article from Seeking Alpha author Lighting Rock Research concludes that “After two years of deleveraging and portfolio optimization, I think this is a turning point for Carriage Services to pursue acquisitions and grow its core funeral and cemetery businesses.” Here are a couple of bullet points from the article whereby…
Last month a judge in Indiana removed the obligation of taking care of a non-profit cemetery away from the cemetery corporation and placed it in the hands of the government. . . in this case Center Township. In his decision, Judge Nathan Meeks commented that the Marion Cemetery Corporation efforts to maintain the cemetery…
Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), the Utah-based company that has interests in the pre-planning, insurance assignment, mortuary, and cemetery business reported their 2nd Quarter results of 2025 last week. To sum up the company’s results, both of the 2nd Quarter 2025 and 6-month 2025 financials show an “overall” increase in revenue but…
Another month has rolled on by and we continue to write varied articles that let those in the Death Care profession know what is going on around them. Our articles vary in topic and it is a guess from month-to-month which articles might be of the most interest to readers. That’s why…
A recent survey found “mixed cost and price trends in the funeral sector”. The survey conducted by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of Great Britain probably has some correlation with the same trends happening in the USA. The regulatory authority (CMA) concluded that profitability for large funeral directors fell between 2015…
