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Decision overturned. . .golf course to become cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / November 27, 2019 /

The Ontario Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) met in October and reversed a decision made more than a year ago about a closed golf course in Lakeshore, Ontario.  According to this article from the CBC, the Roman Catholic Diocese of London (Ontario) appealed an earlier decision that will allow it to turn the 143 acre…

Funeral Director Daily readership keeps rising

By Funeral Director Daily / November 26, 2019 /

Funeral Director Daily continues its rise as what is probably the fastest growing readership medium in the death care profession.  For the past six months, since April 2019, readership has grown 64% — or an average of 10.67% per month.  And, we believe that when statistics are in for November, Funeral Director Daily will be…

Matthews reports year end. . .Memorialization sales increase

By Funeral Director Daily / November 26, 2019 /

Matthews International reported their 4th Quarter and 2019 fiscal Year Sales last week.  The Pittsburgh based public company includes in its portfolio, as one of three business segments, a Memorialization unit that includes Matthews Cremation, Aurora Casket, and Star Granite which are of interest to the death care industry. You can access the Matthews International…

Russell & Pica Funeral Homes plans 3rd location

By Funeral Director Daily / November 25, 2019 /

Russell & Pica Funeral Homes now operate out of Brockton and West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.  According to this article,  land is now being cleared for the company’s third location which will be in Lakeville. The funeral home company plans to build a 6,700 foot funeral home on a 70,134 lot across from a Walgreen’s on Bridge…

A new, hipper, choice in funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / November 25, 2019 /

Last week I learned about, what I might classify as extraordinary and possibly trend setting – if one can say that about funeral establishments – new funeral home that opened recently in London.  The business named “Exit Here” was conceived by British restauranteer Oliver Peyton and his business partner, Barry Pritchard, a third generation funeral…

New facilities around the country

By Funeral Director Daily / November 22, 2019 /

As we go into the weekend we just thought we would update our readers with some new construction going on in the death care business.  The following articles pertain to individual or family owned businesses either being started or being expanded. As we have seen many times with the ideas of proposed crematories — there…

Park Lawn executives comment on 3rd Quarter

By Funeral Director Daily / November 22, 2019 /

Last week Park Lawn Corporation CEO Andrew Clark and CFO James Leeder commented on the company’s 3rd quarter results and also took questions from analysts about the company’s performance.  You can read the transcript here.  I have, however, taken the liberty to pull out some of the comments that we thought would be of the…

Alabama cemetery board member charged with theft

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2019 /

This news video and article from WAFF-TV brings to light the charges against a member of the Legg Cemetery in Limestone County, Alabama.  According to the article, the board member has been charged with first-degree theft after investigators reportedly found $60,000 of the cemetery’s money in her possession. It also appears that after a county…

Recompose moving forward

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2019 /

Recompose, the private company that has been established to become the first company to use “human composting” as a method of final disposition is continuing to move ahead with their plans.  There is a very good article that we found in the Seattle Times, that you can read here, that makes note of the fact…

Corporate News

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2019 /

This afternoon we will bring you a couple of items that recently appeared in print publications about public companies in the death care business. From the Philadelphia Business Journal we bring you this article on StoneMor Partners.  It is entitled, “StoneMor slims down executive ranks, plans divestitures for bid for profitability”.  We believe it is a…