Funeral Director Daily
Many of us have gotten accustomed to watching the television series “Yellowstone” in recent years. While that series takes place in Montana, a county in Wyoming that borders Idaho and Montana contains 40% of Yellowstone National Park’s total area. Teton County of Wyoming, also “had the highest average incomes per capita of any county in…
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I recently read the Carriage Services Earnings Call transcript from last week which pertained to the company’s 4th Quarter of 2024 as well as their financial year end for 2024. It’s interesting that as I read the transcript, which you can access here from Seeking Alpha, several well-meaning cliches came to my mind. .…
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New products come to market all the time. The issues for companies with new products include how to make potential consumers aware of them and how to distribute the product to those consumers. The Loop Biotech “Living Cocoon” is a new poduct for green burials. According to an article in Funeral Service Times…
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Last week public funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator Carriage Services released their 4th Quarter 2024 and Year End 2024 financial results. One of the items that the company mentioned in the press release which you can read here is “lower volumes we began experiencing in October”. I mention that simply because…
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Earlier this week Funeral Director Daily learned from this press release from Batesville that “the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana awarded summary judgment in favor of Batesville Casket Company, LLC and Batesville Services, LLC and against Vandor Group, Inc., rejecting Vandor’s claims that Batesville’s cardboard rental insert, which the…
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It’s hard to think of the rise of luxury funerals when we hear about all the low-cost cremation services and read articles such as this one titled “More Mainers are leaning on state help to pay for funerals, cremations” that was published earlier this month in the Sun Journal of Maine. Yet,…
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Some time ago I served on a private company’s ad hoc board helping the owners navigate some upcoming issues. The business happened to consist of family-owned turkey farms and a turkey brokerage business. While it was a little bit out of my expertise I learned an immense amount, not only of the turkey…
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Earlier this month the United States Postal Services issued a notice that related “effective March 1, 2025, customers will be required to use USPS Priority Mail Express Cremated Remains boxes (BOX-CRE) for all cremated remains shipments. This includes remains shipped as jewelry, blown glass or other artisan works of art.” There is no doubt that cremation,…
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As I’ve told you before, I read the book Megatrends early in the 1980’s. That book, written by John Naisbitt, enlightened me on how happenings of today’s world become trends and potentially “Megatrends” that can change society over time. It also enlightened me that sometimes we can be fooled — some things that…
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If you have ever served on a cemetery board — for profit, non-profit, church, or community — there is a pretty good chance that some type of dispute came before you. It just goes with the territory of centuries old land and plot ownership of cemeteries. The other day I read this…
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