Funeral Director Daily
Matthews International, the Pittsburgh based consolidated company with a division in the death care industry that deals with memorials, cremation equipment, caskets, and more, had an interesting Friday after releasing their 4th quarter and year end earnings on Thursday. You can see a press release of their results here. For the year the company reported…
As we finish up the work week and head into the weekend here are a couple of stories that we really didn’t get a chance to present that we though you might be interested in. . . Park Lawn Corporation provided a secured loan of C$ 6.2 million to a funeral home…
Sometimes if you listen to some of the younger self-proclaimed death care industry experts, you would think that funeral service is only about getting your brand name on social media. And sometimes I’ve been accused of being a little old fashioned in my thinking about how to build a brand in the death care industry.…
Park Lawn Corporation, the Canadian funeral home and cemetery acquisition firm, released its results for their 3rd Quarter of 2018 earlier this week. You can see their Press Release here. The fast-growing death care public company announced that their revenues increased on a year over year basis for the quarter by 92.9%. They reported revenue…
In the past week two things have happened that have made me ponder the relationship between those two things. About a week ago I visited a rural funeral home that for years had done a very high majority of traditional funeral services that included embalming, visitation, casketed remains, a burial vault sale, and all the…
Security National Financial Corporation, a member of the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) of public companies recorded 3rd quarter 2018 after-tax earnings of $2.014 million as compared to last year’s 3rd quarter profits of $1.097 million. You can read the company’s complete press release here. The company which operates in the Life Insurance,…
Great Britain’s largest operator of funeral homes, Dignity PLC, who own and operate 540 funeral homes continues to move forward with their transformation process that they announced earlier this year. The public company filed their 3Q 2018 report on Monday and with it we can see some signs of what direction the company is moving. …
In a press release last week that we caught on Globe Newswire and you can read here, StoneMor Partners has, according to the press release, added depth to their operational management. The release highlights the hiring of four veterans who have experience in the death care industry in cemetery, funeral home, acquisition, and management roles. …
It’s November and it reminds me that for over 30 years this was the time that I put the plan together that led to growing profits in our funeral business. I’ve often been amazed that in many businesses, including funeral service, profits sometimes just happened for certain firms because they just did a number of…
Yesterday, Sunday, November 11, 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the Armistice among nations to end the First World War. . .which was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Today, on a Monday, we in the USA will celebrate the day as a Holiday. Just to remind you. . . the end…
