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An article that you can read here appeared in today’s issue of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reflecting the fact that the urn of pop star Prince has been taken away from the public space at his Paisley Park home/museum. The article goes on to say that family members are somewhat in disagreement about the proper…
Some of the best ideas for the business end of the funeral profession that I received came from other industries. I also think that you can learn from other countries and cultures. In this article from the South China Morning Post Chinese funeral home company Fu Shou Yuan looks towards the future and says that…
Virtually every week that I follow articles on the death care industry I will see an article like this one from CBS Local in New York that pertains to a neighborhood group banding together to stop the construction of a new crematory in their area. This article, which includes a news video, comes from Middletown…
For the last half century the funeral industry has seen tremendous growth of multiple firm businesses getting that growth not necessarily thru growing sales, but by acquisition of other firms. Firms that wanted to grow by acquisition had to be ready when a firm from down the road came up for sale, which in many…
For those of you who follow the public companies in the death care industry we at Funeral Director Daily have initiated coverage of what we call the Death Care Index (DCI) for the last couple of years to help you get a context of how our industry is comparing to the market as a whole. …
It was announced earlier this week that an Alabama jury has awarded damages of $12 million to a family whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home. You can read coverage from Alabama.com here and the Associated Press here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
We saw a couple news items that were fairly unique as to their content and thought that we would bring our readers both of them today with very little commentary on our part. The first item that we found concerned a funeral home in Nova Scotia, Canada, where the public service is warning against crematoriums…
Last week Environment and Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis signed off paving the way for the first crematory to be installed in the country of Greece. According to Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis this “will allow Greece to fulfill its commitment for upholding citizens’ rudimentary rights”. You can read more of this article here. According to the…
