Funeral Director Daily
Value investor and self-described contrarian investor John Snyder wrote an article for Seeking Alpha that you can read here entitled, “Why I’m buying StoneMor”. We will leave the facts at that and I will give my opinion on the piece below. Funeral Director Daily take: This is an article that will cause all experienced funeral…
It was a different day and age 30-40 years ago when funeral directors and those in the funeral profession were sought out for their opinions on anything death care related. Opinions were given and communities and consumers accepted the educated opinions of the death care professionals. It may be that funeral directors and others in…
I’m a history buff and I love to look back and learn what has happened in our country. I’ve found that many times a “precipitator” happens and that event or group of events causes history to happen. I was running on my treadmill the other morning watching CNBC for business news and Fox News for…
Toronto based funeral industry company Park Lawn Corporation released a press release that you can read here about its 2018 year end performance earlier this week. As you may know Park Lawn Corporation has grown greatly this year by acquisitions including The Signature Group, CMS Mid-Atlantic, and Citadel Management in the United States as well…
I read an interesting article the other day from the Washington Post that you can read here about the death of a 77-year old man in Washington state. It is an interesting article about a family’s decision to skip the funeral home and bring the man back to his home for three days of visitation…
According to this article from the Cape Breton Post, the Nova Scotia, Canada Board of Registration of Embalmers and Funeral Directors is offering two seats on their public board to members of the general public. The board has always been set up with only members from the funeral service profession or members nominated by the…
Today we bring you this great human interest story of 21 year old New Zealand funeral director and embalmer Ethyn Milliken. In today’s world where it is sometimes hard to find employees in the funeral profession you will see from this story that great future funeral directors may be just around the corner or that…
Carriage Services is a funeral home and cemetery acquisition company that, according to Reuters, operated 181 funeral homes in 29 states and operated 32 cemeteries in 11 states as of August 28,2018. According to their own history from their web-site they were founded in 1991 and had their initial public offering (IPO) to become a…
It’s Springtime and we are heading into a weekend. . . here are just three stories we noticed in the press this morning that we thought we would share with our readers. . . Mausoleum problems in New York. Read about it here. Indiana funeral home employee sentenced to probation for theft of funds. Read…
