Funeral Director Daily
Today we bring you a couple of articles that we came across this morning that may be of interest to you. The first is the third installment of CNET’s (CBS Interactive) continuing series entitled “The Future of Funerals”. Today’s episode deals with alkaline hydrolysis and CNET titles the article “The misunderstood funeral tech that is…
Back on May 18,2020, Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) reported its 1st Quarter 2020 results that encompassed the period from January 1, 2020 to March 31, 2020. The results, which you can see in a press release here, showed that the company increased revenues in the period compared to the prior year’s revenue by 29.2%…
In our continuing efforts to keep death care professionals up to date on information available to the profession we pass these items along to you. Please feel free to share with colleagues and others in the industry. Webinar: NFDA Town Hall. This informational webinar is brought to us by the National Funeral Directors Association. Its…
Cision PR Newswire published the results of the Foresight Companies 2020 Funeral and Cemetery Behavior Study on Wednesday. You can see the Cision article here. In it they mention that this survey was based on 2,548 respondents “drawn from a nationally representative panel sample of U.S. residents.” Chris Cruger, Partner and Chief Operation Officer at…
This press release from Globe Newswire indicates that the StoneMor, Inc. has received a “Going Private” proposal from Axar Capital as of May 24, 2020. In the proposal, Axar Capital Management, which is an approximately 52% owner of StoneMor, Inc., has proposed paying $0.67 per share to purchase all of the outstanding shares of the…
For almost 40 years our funeral home has had advertising for preneed clientele based on the premise, “Like an umbrella in a sudden shower, some things are good to have before they are needed”. In different ways on radio, print, and online we go on to explain that preneed funeral insurance is one of those…
Today (which is Tuesday-as I usually write these columns a day ahead of time) in Minnesota is a warm, humid morning with threats of rain. I usually take a run every morning and because of the weather I did so indoors on the treadmill while flashing the television between CNBC and Fox News. The television…
A short time ago Carriage Services, the Houston, Texas, based funeral home and cemetery operator announced they would delay their First Quarter 2020 financial results so that they could also report cornavirus related April results and May trends. It is interesting to note that their First Quarter report that you can access here is titled,…
