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StoneMor Partners, the Pennsylvania operator of funeral homes and cemeteries announced First Quarter 2019 results last week. The company, which is in what CEO Joe Redling says is an “operational reorganization” continues to see revenues lower and losses larger than the comparable quarter one year ago. For 1Q 2019 revenues amounted to $71.5 million as…
Toronto based funeral and cemetery services provider Park Lawn Corporation announced last week that they have entered into agreements to acquire the assets of Horan & McConaty Funeral Services and the assets of the Baue Funeral Home Company. The press release and more information that you can read from Yahoo Finance here, indicate that the…
We have written that funeral wishes and choices by the consumer is ever expanding in the death care market. We have written that the choices and alternatives outside of traditional earth burial and cremation continue to expand. Last October we wrote about a process, created by a company called Coeio, in which a deceased is…
Part of our duty here at Funeral Director Daily is to pass information and ideas that we have learned about on to working funeral directors. By doing so, we hope to give those funeral directors additional tools to help ease the lives of those they serve. Over the years we have told you where you…
I mentioned earlier this week that I spent last week in Las Vegas with about 150 people in our profession. Lots of items get bantered about at this event and one that was visited about quite frequently last week was the opening of Tulip Cremations. While I have only anecdotal knowledge of Tulip Cremation, I…
While this is a little out of the ordinary for Funeral Director Daily, I ran across a couple of articles that deal with fashion and/or fashion for the funeral director this week. Without much commentary I just thought they might be interesting for you to read. . . The first is a letter to Dear…
I spent three days last week in Las Vegas with about 150 other people from the death care profession. The group is a wide mix of people, with all of us having the death care industry in common. Some are small funeral home owner/operators like me, some are CEOs of the largest public death care…
In a press release out of Park Lawn Corporation headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, today, the company announced that it had acquired the assets of two-location funeral business John L. Ziegenhein & Sons Undertaking, Inc. According to the press release that you can read here, the Ziegenhein Funeral Homes were acquired for a purchase price of…
