Funeral Director Daily
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…
Read MoreCarriage 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…
Read MoreAccording 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…
Read MoreService 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…
Read MoreWhen I was younger the election night banter we always heard was as the title of this article, “As Maine Goes. . . So Goes the Nation”. What it meant under those circumstances was that the State of Maine had an uncanny history of always selecting the Presidential candidate correctly, so the commentators pointed out…
Read MoreMatthews International reported its 2018 fiscal year 3rd quarter results last week. You can read the company’s press release and report here. As you may know the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based public company operates in three segments: Brand Solutions, Industrial Technologies, and Memorialization. Their Memorialization segment is what we are concerned with in the death care…
Read MoreMatthews International, a death care conglomerate with operations in crematory equipment, bronze memorialization products, and caskets, reported their 3rd Quarter 2018 fiscal year results yesterday. You can read their press release here. Their report can be summed up by increased total sales – albeit not to the extent that they had predicted, but a beat…
Read MoreIn an article that appeared in FastCompany.com that you can read here, Dutch architectural firm HofmanDujardin, described what it believes may become the new wave of funeral home ceremony establishments. The design, which has not been built, was inspired by their attendance at a death of a partner whose funeral was attended by the principals…
Read MoreOne of the advantages of getting older, grayer, and more experienced in business is that you get a lot of time to reflect on the many things that have happened in the past and then can try to understand how you can put that knowledge into today’s society. One of the terms I thought about…
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