Funeral Director Daily

Extrapolating the Trends

By Funeral Director Daily / August 22, 2018 /

In the last couple of days I have read articles from different areas of the United States pertaining to the establishment of “Green Cemeteries” in those locales.  The first you can read here and comes from the southern portion of Illinois and concerns the City of Carbondale turning a city cemetery over to the option…

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InvoCare moves forward despite headwinds Down Under

By Funeral Director Daily / August 21, 2018 /

Australian funeral service market share leader, InvoCare, is moving forward with capital expenses aimed at becoming more appealing to Baby Boomers in spite of several headwinds on funeral service down under.  You can read an article from Australian Financial Review on the slowing of InvoCare’s business here. In the article InvoCare CEO, Martin Earp, mentions…

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Colorado Funeral Home owner banned from Funeral Business

By Funeral Director Daily / August 20, 2018 /

We’ve kept you up to date on the happenings with the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado and its owner Megan Hess since last winter when the company was alleged to have sold body parts without permission from bodies entrusted to it for funeral or memorial services.  According to an article you can read…

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An update on the Brock’s Funeral Home closure of 2016

By Funeral Director Daily / August 17, 2018 /

Panhandle.com reports on an update of what is happening with the Panama City, Florida case of 2016 which resulted in the closure of the Brock’s Hometown Funeral Home in that city.  The update includes legal action that has taken place against the owners and reports on a scheduled jury trial scheduled for October 1, 2018,…

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Park Lawn Corporation Reports 2Q 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / August 17, 2018 /

Canadian public company Park Lawn Corporation announced their 2nd quarter financial results this week.  You can see the company’s press release here.  According to the company, “The results show solid operating performance across the majority of the business, particularly in the CMS Mid-Atlantic and Saber business segments of the company. Here are some of the…

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Security National Financial Reports Quarterly Results

By Funeral Director Daily / August 16, 2018 /

As we come to the end of the earnings reporting period for the public death care companies we give you the quarterly report for Security National Financial Corporation.  Security National is the Utah based public company that operates in three segments — insurance, cemeteries and funerals, and mortgages.  Funeral Director Daily is most focused on…

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Being Determined to Stay the Course

By Funeral Director Daily / August 15, 2018 /

Business decisions are generally not made lightly in the death care industry.  The same is true of public relations events put on by funeral homes and cemeteries.  Usually, these types of businesses are very thorough in their thought process so as not to annoy and/or lose a potential customer.  So once you have made a…

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Quinn Foley on Carriage Services

By Funeral Director Daily / August 14, 2018 /

Quinn Foley of Seeking Alpha offers his assessment of public funeral service company Carriage Services here.  This is a recent analysis following the company’s 2nd Quarter financial report. Funeral Director Daily note:  Canadian public funeral home and cemetery company Park Lawn Corporation reports earnings following the market close today.  Stay tuned for our report on…

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The Anatomy of Grief and Why We Do What We Do

By Funeral Director Daily / August 14, 2018 /

Sometimes it is just a good feeling to be reminded as funeral directors as to why we do what we do.  Very often, including on this site, we talk about all the business aspects of funeral service.  However, I learned during my time as a funeral home business owner, if we follow the pretense of…

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Assurant Reports Higher Preneed Profits

By Funeral Director Daily / August 13, 2018 /

Assurant reported their 2nd Quarter results last week.  You can read their report here. The worldwide conglomerate operating in the insurance and warranty business has one of its three business segments that operates in what they call “Global Preneed”.  That is the part of the company that we at Funeral Director Daily like to review.…

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