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An article was authored by Seeking Alpha contributor Daniel Jones last week about the largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America — Service Corporation International (SCI). As our headline mentions, the title of the article, that you can access here, is “SCI: A stock to take to the grave”. Jones…
We keep hearing that about 50% of the family owned funeral homes in North America will change hands within the next decade. . . .If there are about 20,000 funeral homes in the U.S. and Canada that means that about 10,000 will be sold. That’s a lot of transactions. The companies that help…
Are we living in the age of Debt, Demographics, and Disruption? And, if we are, are there parallels from life and investing that might also move into the Death Care realm? I heard the phrase “Debt, Demographics, and Disruption” when I sat down to catch my breath on Wednesday afternoon after returning from…
Dignity Funeral Directors is now the name of a company once known as public company Dignity plc that was taken private in 2023. The company is a funeral service provider based in the United Kingdom. They recently reported their 2024 financials to the Companies House in Great Britain and in that report,…
We recently received a press release from OneRoom, a trusted leader in funeral streaming. The press release made known that the company has launched its new “Rev Gen Bundle” – defined as a way to make every stream work harder for your funeral home. With Tribute Buttons and Pre-Need Pathways, funeral homes can…
Once again it is time for Funeral Director Daily to give our readers a 2nd chance to read articles that they may have missed in the past 30 days. We’ve highlighted the Top 5 most read from May 15 to June 15 below. The articles again show the variety of topics that Funeral…
We noticed in this article last week that a consumer group has asked for the removal of funeral directors as “the middleman in cremations, saying it’s costing people money”. Among other things, the group says “it gives them (funeral directors) the opportunity to “hook people into a package deal” charging grieving families for…
Tomorrow night is June 17th and it is the 3rd Tuesday of the month so that brings us the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) sponsored online Peer Support meeting. The monthly Peer Support meetings are for all funeral home, cemetery, crematory, and other Death Care workers. According to information from…
I tried something different last week and had a five-part series on how “Out-of-the-Box” thinking may change Death Care. The series of articles was well recieved and, from feedback I recieved, seemed to make people think. . . even if they don’t think my thoughts will become a reality anytime soon. Joel…
When I look at the long-term trends of democratic countries — countries that I define by having free and fair elections for leaders — I see historical movement towards more “socially economic” values. For instance, when I look at European countries that were founded much earlier than the United States I sense a pattern…
