Funeral Director Daily

How do you hold on to Heritage Families?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 28, 2019 /

All businesses that want to grow and prosper need to acquire new customers.  That is a pretty simple concept.  But one thing I’m always amazed at is how so many times business take for granted the customers that they have already acquired. Think about that for a moment. . . . if you can continue…

Making this Cemetery Great Again

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2019 /

Even though this is a real news story with real valid reasoning for two people doing what they are doing, I had to chuckle just a tad when the on scene reporter started his report by saying, “These two guys are making this cemetery great again”. Regardless of your political persuasion, if you have not…

Death Care. . . Regulations and Some Rules

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2019 /

Over the past couple of days I’ve noticed a couple articles on rules and regulations in the Death Care industry.  These are not generally municipal or national rules but some rules that are now in effect in different places for different reasons.  I guess all that I have cited here make some sense to those…

Interesting Ohio Cemetery Court Case

By Funeral Director Daily / January 22, 2019 /

Last week the trial of Karen Neff, a caretaker with her husband Keith Dwayne Baratie, Sr, of the Belmont Memorial Park Cemetery in Belmont County, Ohio, began.  Neff’s husband, and co-defendent, will have a separate trial beginning on February 7.  The couple is charged with forgery, aggravated theft and securing by deception.  According to the…

In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Funeral Director Daily / January 21, 2019 /

  [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]

Carriage Services Profit drops. . . management to fight back

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2019 /

Death care consolidator Carriage Services issued preliminary 2018 results on Wednesday.  You can read a press release from the company here. In those results the company announced that they had grown revenue year over year from $258.1 million in 2017 to an an unaudited estimate of $268.0 million in 2018.  That would be an increase…

Foundation Partners adds Arizona Firm

By Funeral Director Daily / January 17, 2019 /

Earlier in January it was announced that Foundation Partners Group had acquired the Angel Valley Funeral Home & Old Pueblo Crematory in Tucson, Arizona.  According to a press release from Foundation Partners that you can read here, Mike and Dee Dee Orcutt had owned the business for about ten years prior to this change of…

Dignity PLC upgrades forecast on “Stronger than Expected” 4th Qtr

By Funeral Director Daily / January 16, 2019 /

In a brief update that you can read here, the United Kingdom’s largest funeral services provider issued a statement that says they expect profits to be higher than expected for 2018 due to higher than expected revenue while overhead has been kept lower than expected. Dignity plc also stated that their market share had remained…

Singapore sites Four new funeral parlours

By Funeral Director Daily / January 16, 2019 /

Funeral customs around the world are interesting to observe.  But, just as the customs are interesting to observe so are the challenges of those in funeral service for profit in the differing countries with differing values in funeral service.  I recently read an article in Channel News Asia that you can read here. Land is…

An opinion on Service Corporation International

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2019 /

Just this morning I noticed an information piece on Service Corporation International from Zack’s Research.  It’s a short, but interesting look at how at least some people look at the death care industry as compared to the overall market and what they think about SCI. Interesting to note, is that according to the article, Service…