Funeral Director Daily
This past weekend an open house was held to celebrate the opening of America’s newest funeral facility — the Heafey Hoffmann Dworak & Cutler Mortuary on West Center Road in Omaha, Nebraska. The 26,000 square foot structure is built on the same spot where fire destroyed the firm’s 1980 building in January 2016. According to…
Read MoreBatesville Casket company was one of eleven Indiana companies honored and inducted into the State of Indiana Manufacturer’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony on October 4. Companies were recognized by the Indiana Manufacturer’s Association for their outstanding contributions to the development of a healthy, dynamic manufacturing environment in Indiana. Batesville has been a part…
Read MoreI’ve heard a saying that “news” is what nobody wants others to know and “public relations” is every thing else that is printed. There is a lot of truth to that saying in the funeral business — nobody wants to be in the news — especially if the things that are being said are not…
Read MoreMost funeral homes, regardless of where they are located, are lamenting the tide that is turning – or has already turned – as the business of death care turns from earth burial dispositions to cremation dispositions. Even the best run death care businesses – whether funeral home or cemetery – are having to make tough…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, September 26, 2017, Zacks Investment Research issued an upgrade on the stock of funeral industry public company Carriage Services. You can read about that upgrade and more about Carriage Services in that news release here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
Read MoreThe State of West Virginia Health and Human Resources Department requires all suspected drug overdose deaths to be transported to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office at the state morgue, autopsied, and a toxicology report must be made in an attempt to pinpoint what exactly caused the death. After this is done the State then has…
Read MoreHaving seen news last week that Foundation Partners closed on an acquisition in Wisconsin I did a little research on what, at least anecdotally, are the acquisition targets of the larger companies. I did so because the purchase of the Schneider-Michaelis Funeral Home in Jefferson, Wisconsin, didn’t seem to fit what Foundation Partners had been…
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