Funeral Director Daily
Last week Matthews International, a publicly traded company with a segment of its business in the death care realm reported 2nd Quarter 2020 results. According to a press release you can read here, due to their international operations, the company believes their business units began experiencing the impacts of COVID-19 earlier in the quarter, initially…
Funeral Director Daily today brings you a rare weekend edition of our news blog. We do so simply because one of the webinars available through the National Funeral Directors Association is on Monday morning and we wanted you to have ample time to consider registering and blocking off an hour of your morning to watch,…
Last week we brought you an initial report on Service Corporation International’s report of their 1st Quarter 2020 results. We also promised that we would go “inside the numbers” to see what other financial information we could find that may be of benefit to all of you who own or manage funeral homes. Today, we…
Today we continue with our periodic communication of information that we have found provided free of charge from organizations, suppliers, government agencies and others that are meant to get information out to the death care community. Thanks again to our many readers who have passed this information on to their co-workers and friends who may…
As you know if you have been reading Funeral Director Daily in the last month, it appears that the “no large gatherings” rules that are in effect in many states across America have had a negative effect on all things death care. Funeral homes have talked about revenue declines in many of their service categories…
This was bound to happen so we probably should not be surprised by this headline. However, it still seemed surreal to me when I read in this article from the Arizona Daily Star that a Tucson, Arizona, funeral home had been closed due to “a number of staff” members falling ill and being required to…
To roll into the weekend we thought we would give you some food for thought in the funeral industry from almost 10,000 miles apart. Our articles today come from the investment community in both the United States and Australia. Both are good, well thought out articles that deal with the world of death care in…
We are taking the tact of getting out this information item early in the morning on Friday passing on some news that you can use. Just yesterday we learned that the fine folks at Johnson Consulting Group were hosting an informative webinar today, Friday, May 1. We wanted to get the link to the registration…
