Funeral Director Daily
I was driving into a board meeting on Monday and listening to one of the business channels on Sirius Radio. The topic that came up and was being discussed was the potential acquisition of Fox by either Disney or Comcast. As you may know, Fox was given an acquisition offer by Disney last December at…
Read MoreLater tonight the El Cajon (California) Planning Commission will have the opportunity to approve an application to approve the first crematory in that city. According to an article in East County Magazine that you can read here, Robert Zakar, owner of El Cajon Mortuary, is seeking to add on-site cremation services to his existing funeral…
Read MoreLate last Wednesday a jury in Montana issued a verdict against a Montana funeral home for coercing a widow client into pursuing a cremation for her husband against his “final wishes” for earth burial. You can read about the case in the Great Falls Tribune here. According to the article, Robert Yeager, age 64 died…
Read MoreInvoCare Limited, the market leading funeral home firm in Australia, announced Friday that it will be closing on two acquisitions from the South Island of New Zealand on June 22. You can read a clip about this from Motley Fool Australia here. The company will acquire Hope and Sons Funeral Directors in Dunedin and Whitestone…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that staffing at funeral homes across North America is an issue and up for much debate on how it is done. I recently ran into an article from Great Britain that was published in Wales Online, and which you can read here. The article is very interesting and concerns the company…
Read MorePart of what we try to do at Funeral Director Daily is to keep you updated on all things funeral service. One of the ways we do that is by watching what is happening with the publicly held death care community stocks. Here are the stocks that we check up on regularly and compute the…
Read MoreWe found a short opinion on the stock ownership values of Carriage Services today by Douglas Gerlach and published on Moneyshow.com. We present you the article here with no opinion on our part. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
Read MoreThere is sometimes a reckoning point when an issue in an industry becomes so clear that everybody recognizes it and a high profile newspaper investigates it to make the public aware. That happened this weekend when the Denver Post published this article on what has been going on in Colorado in the last year. We…
Read MoreOver the weekend I read a couple of articles on different subjects that brought me to the question, “Can a funeral/memorial celebrant on staff increase revenues?” You might be wondering how I got to that question or even why I might ask it. Let me explain. I first came across an article on church attendance…
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