Funeral Director Daily
It’s became almost a weekly occurrence whereby I notice an article in a United States newspaper that pits a company that is in the cremation business against others in their community about where to locate a new crematory. Such is the case today in a dispute over a crematory location in Dayton, Ohio. This battle,…
As we continue to move into the reports from Wall Street on how public companies have been doing for the first six months of 2019 we have a couple of items that we noticed in today’s news that we will present to you: Dignity PLC halts dividend: The British funeral home conglomerate announced on Wednesday…
The state of Colorado is in the news often these days. Demographers tell us that in many ways it appears to be a bellwether of things to come in the United States. It is growing by leaps and bounds, the diversity of the people is rapidly expanding to resemble what America’s diverse population will eventually…
Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest single entity seller of funeral and cremation services in the United States, reported their 2nd Quarter 2019 and mid-year 2019 financial results yesterday. SCI has approximately 1500 funeral home, crematories, and cemeteries under its umbrella and is said to garner about 15-18% of the American death care dollar. Because…
Since February 2018 there has been a moratorium on the installation and licensing of liquid cremation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation, in the Canadian province of Ontario. At this point in time, according to this article from the Ottawa Citizen, the Wartman Funeral Home of Kingston is the only facility in the…
Marijuana still remains a Schedule 1 drug under the federal Controlled Substance Act. However, many states have approved the medical use of marijuana. So, what does that mean to you as an employer or you as an employee? In most instances courts will back the federal law. However, some states have started to back employees…
Last week Funeral Director Daily published an article on “Out of the box” marketing. In a nutshell we told traditional funeral homes not to be scared about advertising your services in a less than conventional way. While we didn’t have anything to do with it, we happened to notice on our local media in the…
Just about every day when we peruse articles to opine on we can find articles that pertain to cemeteries and crematories and the problems they seem to cause to just everyday people. You might argue that some of these issues are pretty petty and could be easily fixed, however, to the consumers they bother they…
I think even those of us who grew up in the world before smart phones and the internet understand that funeral homes can gain in their marketing efforts by being actively involved in the social media world. However, common sense dictates that marketing dollars should be spread around. . .even to the point of doing…
