Funeral Director Daily
The case of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Colorado and its sister business of being in the body part business continues to cause stirs in that state. Sunset Mesa Funeral Home has been shut down and its owner, Megan Hess, has left funeral service, but now many people are questioning the Colorado Department of…
It is no secret that many funeral homes in the United States are searching for additional staff. It also appears that those institutions that instruct in Mortuary Science are having a hard time attracting students, probably somewhat due to the otherwise booming American economy. In an article and video that you can read and see…
Not long ago the Aretha Franklin funeral was held in Detroit. In an article and news clip that you can read and see here from WXYZ of Detroit, many former clients of the Swanson Funeral Home are wondering why O’Neill Swanson II gave interviews to CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and even to Action 7 News about…
An interesting article on the Brunswick Memorial Home appeared in CentralJersey.com that you can read here. The funeral home is being honored with the national Funeral Director’s (NFDA) Pursuit of Excellence Award in 2018. To mark 35 years in business, the company recently completed “35 Good Deeds in 35 Days to Mark 35 Years”. Quite…
Yesterday we published an article dealing with the on going price wars for “Simple” cremation in the United Kingdom. It made me wonder about the different pricing methods used by full service funeral establishments in dealing with their cremation clients. For the sake of our discussion, in this article, we are dealing with those full…
We reported in early 2018 that Dignity, the United Kingdom’s 2nd largest funeral merchant with a reported 12% of total market share dropped pricing by 50% in its lowest priced service segment to try to grapple more market share away from leader Co-op Funeralcare who has a purported 16% of the market share. All reports…
If you are or have been in the death care business for any length of time you can relate to all the talk about the popularity of cremation gaining in the last twenty years and at an incredible pace for the past 5-7 years. All of us know of the issues that lower revenue per…
