Funeral Director Daily
We just want to give a huge thank you to our subscription list across the world. Each day during the COVID-19 situation we are trying to get out information, that may be pertinent to you in your own situation, about the pandemic as it relates to the death care profession. We are so thankful that…
Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Toronto based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator, reported their 2019 financial results on Monday after trading hours. The company showed mixed results by increasing their revenue by 51% to $244 million (all dollar numbers are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated) but only generating an additional 2.3% in…
Yesterday while I was sheltering in place I was able to watch and be informed from two webcasts in the funeral industry. We know at Funeral Director Daily that we can use our subscription power – and your help in passing along the information – to get the word out on best practices in the…
The state of Massachusetts has made some changes in practice that affect the work of funeral directors in the state. The state mentions that these changes are for public health sake and will be effective until rescinded or until Gov. Charlie Baker terminates the state of emergency he declared on March 10. You can read…
We’ve learned that we can use our subscription platform of over 1100 death care industry professionals to get valuable information disseminated throughout the profession. We’ve learned of webinars and/or panel discussions from experts in various fields throughout the profession that you can hear from free of charge. Here are a couple of these type of…
On Friday, or maybe it was Saturday, I was watching President’s Trump daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic and my ears picked up when I heard him him mention some of the companies that were leading the charge against the virus. One of the companies he mentioned was Hillrom. If you have been around funeral…
As we move into the weekend of this strange world we seem to be living in now, I could find any of 50 articles that tell how funeral directors need to be up to the challenge or how funeral homes may suffer financial hits because of the lack of “gatherings” that are allowed to take…
Reuters published an article yesterday that was picked up by the New York Times today. It is headlined, “As coronavirus hits memorial services, U.S. funeral homes struggle to adapt”. You can read the article here. The article picks up on the Seeking Alpha article that we made available to our readers yesterday bearing somewhat on…
Today’s blog article could be classified under “funeral directors and their relatives are the most interesting people”. I grew up living next to the family funeral home, went into that business as a career, and operated the business for almost 35 years so I’ve gotten acquainted with many people who grew up as a funeral…
Earlier today Seeking Alpha News Editor Yoel Minkoff put out a short piece entitled, “Tough times for U.S. funeral homes“. Oppenheimer securities analyst Scott Schneeberger is quoted in the article. You can access the short article here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
