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What are you doing to add Ethnic Business

By Funeral Director Daily / August 8, 2018 /

It seems to me that in this day and age of declining revenues per case in the funeral business, that every ancillary service a funeral home/crematory can secure can be a god-send for business.  Many funeral homes will try to sell a better casket or urn, or will push cremation jewelry or an urn vault…

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Cremation – What’s Next in the Market?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 7, 2018 /

The Cremation Association of North America just wrapped up its weeklong gathering of cremation professionals at CANA2018.  While I did not attend, I have kept up with some of the issues that were discussed and saw a quote come out of the convention that I wanted to discuss further. The quote I am referring to…

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Carriage Services – Behind the Numbers

By Funeral Director Daily / August 6, 2018 /

You only have to read the first page of Carriage Service’s press release, which you can read here, to understand that CEO Mel Payne was not thrilled with Carriage’s 2nd quarter numbers.  The third paragraph of the release states, “We have complete confidence that our operating leadership is effectively dealing with the revenue and margin…

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Interesting Research at Stonehenge

By Funeral Director Daily / August 3, 2018 /

It’s a beautiful Friday morning in Minnesota and I’ve been up early just researching future articles for Funeral Director Daily.  As I mentioned before, I love to continue to learn and today I came upon this article from Science News that you can read here. The article is about the Stonehenge monument and, until today,…

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Inside the Numbers at SCI

By Funeral Director Daily / August 3, 2018 /

Earlier this week Service Corporation International posted their 2nd Quarter results, which you can see in a company press release here, and we told you that we would analyze them and report our impressions.  There is nothing that surprises us with the SCI results, more so, they reinforce what we believe is the direction of…

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In Today’s News

By Funeral Director Daily / August 2, 2018 /

We noticed an article and a news story this morning that we thought were worth sharing.  The first story is from Bloomberg News and is entitled “Mortuary Company Stays ahead of Debt by Digging graves before People Die”.  You can read the story here, which deals with public death care company StoneMor Partners and their…

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“Extreme Embalming” and You

By Funeral Director Daily / August 2, 2018 /

While searching through articles pertaining to the death care industry I came across an article from Vice.com entitled, “Inside New Orleans Extreme Embalming Funerals” that you can read here.  The article points out a trend, that as far as the author can tell started in Puerto Rico in about 2014 and has grown in acceptance…

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Carriage Services 2Q Report Drops Stock Price

By Funeral Director Daily / August 1, 2018 /

Carriage Services, the Houston based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator announced 2nd Quarter 2018 earnings yesterday and with that report, that you can access here, found their common stock losing about 5% of its value.  Analysts had predicted earnings in the range of about $0.37 per share and the report brought earnings in…

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Crematory Addition Leads to New Business

By Funeral Director Daily / August 1, 2018 /

According to this article from the Pine Journal, Bob and Karen Atkins operate the Atkins-Northland Funeral Home and Crematory in Cloquet, Minnesota.  The couple is responsible for a business with a volume of about 160 deaths annually and when the cremation percentage started to rise they decided to put in a human crematory instead of…

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Service Corporation Reports 2Q 2018 Results

By Funeral Director Daily / July 31, 2018 /

Service Corporation International, the largest of the funeral service conglomerate public companies, reported 2nd Quarter 2018 financial results yesterday.  You can read their press release and see the numbers here. SCI announced earnings per share of $0.44 versus analysts estimates of $0.43 per share.  They also announced 2nd quarter revenue of $796 million as compared…

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