Funeral Director Daily
It is always fun when the ball drops in Times Square at the rise of the New Year to think about how the future will be affecting you. Thinking about what will happen in the death care industry in North America is not something that comes to everybody’s mind, but if you make your livelihood…
Read MoreYesterday we gave you a recap of the death care public companies that make up the Death Care Index and their performance in 2017. We also promised that we would bring you some ideas that we have where those companies may be headed in the year ahead. Again, please couch your thoughts with the fact…
Read MoreIn a year when the stock market has been tremendously rewarding to those that were invested in it, the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) of public companies in the industry did not fare near as well. For the year from January 1, 2017 thru December 31, 2017, if you were invested in the…
Read MoreService Corporation International and its brand, Dignity Memorial, recently announced that it will, for the 10th consecutive year, sponsor the Donate Life float that will appear in the 129th Rose parade on January 1, 2018. You can read their press release here. The Donate Life Rose Parade float helps raise awareness of the important cause…
Read MorePropel Funeral Partners, the funeral home, cremation, and cemetery company that serves Australia and New Zealand is seeing their stock continue to rise since their initial public offering (IPO) in November. According to an article in the Motley Fool from December 27, 2017, the stock has moved from an IPO price of AUS $2.70 to…
Read MoreOne of every owners worst nightmares came true on Tuesday, December 26, to Jerry Lee Taylor, the owner of Taylor Funeral home in Gibson, Georgia. Early that morning fire raged through his funeral home in the rural Georgia town as explained in a story and video seen here from WJBF Television of Augusta, Georgia. According…
Read MoreLast week I wrote an article dealing with the professional staffing shortage in the death care industry. While there is some question, depending on who you talk to, as to whether the funeral service staffing shortage is perceived or real, there is no doubt that the economy keeps humming along in America and Economics 101…
Read MoreOn December 19 Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings issued a rating on Hillenbrand’s amended $900 million unsecured revolving credit facility expiring in December 2022. The rating assigned was BBB. The company restated that it will use this credit facility for financing working capital needs and general corporate purposes. Standard and Poor’s gave the following reasons…
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