Funeral Director Daily
As we mentioned in yesterday’s Funeral Director Daily, the earnings season is upon us for public companies to report their operating results for the 3 months ended September 30, 2019. On November 7 we know that cemetery and funeral home owner and operator StoneMor Partners LP will give us those numbers and do know that…
Funeral Director Daily tracks its proprietary Death Care Index or DCI periodically. The DCI is a group of eight publicly traded company stocks that each have some skin in the death care industry or profession. They range from companies involved in death care services to companies who manufacture things like crematories, to companies involved in…
I was reminded that Veteran’s Day 2019 is fast approaching as it is November 11. It is a day set aside to thank our nation’s veterans for service given and sacrifices made to protect the freedoms of our great nation. I recently came upon an article on how the Drennan & Ford Funeral Home in…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column for Funeral Director Daily entitled, “How will we transform”? The article was based on the fact that Hillenbrand Industries, parent company of Batesville Casket Company, knows that its casket business will not be its bread and butter forever, and is transforming itself over time to a…
About ten days ago we told you that Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home and Cremation in Jordan, Minnesota, was pursuing the idea of placing an alkaline hydrolysis unit in their business so that client families have a choice between flame cremation and alkaline hydrolysis – sometimes known as water or green cremation. According to this article, the…
Today we will bring you a couple of stories we recently saw in the news pertaining to some things that are happening with a couple of 2nd generation New York state family funeral home operators. The first story deals with 27-year old Ryan Frary and his purchase of the Stuart-Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Tupper Lake,…
In this release on Business Wire from the A.M. Best Company issued last week, the insurance ratings firm “has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-term ICR) of a- of Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company (FDLIC) of Abilene,…
