Funeral Director Daily
I operated a small town funeral home for about 35 years. Every year I completed budgets and put expectations on the number of death calls the firm would do as well as predicted our market share in the community. I was tough with myself. . . .I had high expectations. Fortunately, I operated in a…
In my morning e-mail on investment opportunities this morning was an opinion on Service Corporation International. Michael Gayed of Seeking Alpha wrote a short piece on SCI as an investment opportunity that I thought I would pass on to my readers. You can read Gayed’s piece here. What I found interesting in the article was…
Recompose, the public benefits corporation that is moving the process of recomposition (human composting) into the commercial realm recently held a forum at the Feldman Mortuary in Denver, Colorado. The forum was used to introduce the idea of recomposition to the Colorado market and also to announce that two Colorado legislators plan to introduce a…
As reported last week on Funeral Director Daily, Carriage Services has hired William Goetz as its new Chief Operating Officer. Late last week we learned that Goetz has came out of the chute by showing confidence in the company the he will lead. It was reported in this article that on Wednesday, December 11, 2019,…
When you are the owner of a funeral home you have to have a plan for marketing the business. Most funeral director proprietors think about their advertising, their on-line presence, and their pre-arrangement program as a way to market. What many don’t think about, however, is that the services they provide after the funeral to…
It seems that we are announcing acquisitions by the Foundation Partners Group in rapid succession. Today we bring you the news that last week it was announced that Foundation Partners Group announced in this press release that they had purchased two funeral/cremation companies on the east, or Space Coast, side of Florida. The two firms…
Security National Financial Corporation of Utah, a public company that has operations in both the mortuary and insurance businesses reported financial numbers for their 3rd Quarter of 2019 recently. You can read their press release on that information here. 3rd Quarter Life Insurance revenues are up slightly to $29.8 million in 2019 from $28.9 million…
David Murphy is not only a funeral director but he is well on his way to becoming the owner of a successful manufacturing business. Murphy, a funeral director at the Newark, New York, family firm, Paul L. Murphy & Son Funeral Home recently was awarded $40,000 as the First Place recipient of the Wayne County…
