Funeral Director Daily
You can read this article from Variety that informs its readers that CBS has agreed to a commitment for a series pilot to be filmed using a family owned funeral home as the backdrop. The series is currently titled “Fun” – as in “You can’t spell funeral without f-u-n.” In the sit-com a brother of…
The other day Funeral Director Daily published an article on the transformation of Hillenbrand Industries. We explained that while the trajectory has not been perfect and steady – as a matter of fact it has sometimes been downright rocky – they have now transformed their business and business model so that their founding business, caskets,…
Recently ASD has joined Cressy Memorial, maker of the Crowne Vault, as a sponsor of Funeral Director Daily. We are tremendously gratified for the confidence that these fine companies have put in us as we deliver information and other resources to the profession. We asked a spokesman for ASD to give us a little information…
StoneMor Partners, L.P. issued a press release the other day expressing some of the movements they are making as they execute their self-termed “turnaround” of the company. As you may know, StoneMor Partners operates 321 cemeteries and 90 funeral homes and has incurred several consecutive quarters of losses in their operation. You can read their…
It was noted in The Courier Express of Dubois, Pennsylvania, in an article that you can see here, that the Adamson Funeral Chapel in Dubois had a revised land development plan for a crematory approved by the Sandy Township Planning Commission. According to the article, the Adamson Funeral Chapel is proposing to build a 1500…
As a saver I keep what investments I have in separate buckets. I have a bucket for my 401k, I have a bucket that generates current income, and I have a bucket where I hold stocks with the philosophy that these stocks “will be worth more in ten years than they are worth today”. The…
We recently learned thru a press release, that you can read here, of a Toronto based company, UrbanRIP, that has created a new urn called the Candlestick Egg Urn. From our point of view, it is an urn designed to fit in a home decor where it will have meaning and accessibility for the family…
Every once in a while we like to just bring our readers news from around the world of Death Care. And, today, our news around the world of death care is truly from around the world. The following articles bring news from three continents — from North America we bring you news of funeral home…
