Funeral Director Daily

The Director. . . . “Break a leg”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 18, 2019 /

Scott Turnbull is an Australian funeral director who has worked in that occupation for the past 25 years.  In an article that you can read here from the Australian Financial Review  Turnbull states that while some weddings take over a year to plan, funerals are generally planned and executed in one week or less and…

Carriage Services featured in Seeking Alpha article

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2019 /

Author Noam Ganel wrote an article for Seeking Alpha entitled, “The Case for (and against) owning shares in Carriage Services” which was published on April 15.  You can read the article here. Funeral Director Daily take:  This is an interesting article that, in my opinion, the author researched well.  You may or may not like…

Security National Cemeteries and Mortuaries revenue jumps 23% in 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2019 /

Utah based Security National Financial Corporation issued their 2018 financial results earlier this month and you can see a statement from them here.  The company announced a company wide increase in revenues of 1% to over $279 million.  In addition, SNFC announced that their after-tax earnings from operations jumped over 53% from about $14 million…

What would you pay for a cemetery lot in Boston?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 16, 2019 /

The other day an article was published in Boston Magazine with the title, “Boston’s other Housing Crisis:  The Cemeteries”.  It is a full length feature article that gets into the costs associated with being buried at cemeteries inside the city of Boston as well as the options for burial in suburban and farther rural areas…

Taxis as removal vehicles, modern grave tampering

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2019 /

Today as all American’s are filing their federal income taxes, and I’m no exception, I’m saving a little time and just giving you a couple of articles pertaining to the funeral industry that I found on the wire services. The first article that you can find here is an article from Jamaica where established funeral…

Encouragement. . . You can all do it

By Funeral Director Daily / April 12, 2019 /

I left the world of full time everyday work about 5 years ago.  With that and my two boys growing up and somewhat out of the house as a college grad in the working world and the last one in college, I have found more time during the day to do things that I really…

StoneMor Partners reports year end 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / April 10, 2019 /

In a news release from April 2 that you can read here, StoneMor Partners reported their financial results for the 4th Quarter of 2018 as well as the full year 2018.  As you may know, the company has been filing delayed SEC reports but this report puts them pretty much on schedule. Here are some…

CEO Andrew Clark on Park Lawn Corporation Results

By Funeral Director Daily / April 8, 2019 /

Editor’s Note:  I am out of the office this week.  Because of that FDD will not be publishing an article on Tuesday or Thursday.  I hope you enjoy the articles for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have scheduled. #                                # …

Independents strategize niche on three continents

By Funeral Director Daily / April 5, 2019 /

Without even recognizing it funeral service has always had niche businesses inside of it.  Even full service funeral homes could fit in the niche category if they exclusively catered to protestant or catholic clientele. . . or if they were a cremation society type discounter.  We’ve always had some niche operations in the industry even…

Newspaper alleges Chicago Archdiocese uses cemetery funds to pay abuse costs

By Funeral Director Daily / April 4, 2019 /

An article was published last weekend by the Chicago Sun-Times that questioned if money from the Archdiocese of Chicago cemetery operations was being diverted to pay down debt incurred because of priest misconduct cases.  You can read the article here. The Catholic Church in Chicago has for years said, according to the article,  that the…