Funeral Director Daily
Yesterday we wrote about an article in Chicago Business which featured a story on Chicago area funeral homes that were seeing a drop in margins and a drop in number of calls. The end result of that fact was that many of the smaller firms were actually closing their doors for good. Funeral Director Daily…
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Over the weekend I read a very interesting article that was posted to Chicago Business. The contents of the article will come as no surprise to you — it is about the difficulty of funeral homes retaining margins and call volume and closing because of not being able to do that. One of the funeral…
Read MoreHere is some news from around the world of funeral service in the last week. KCBS of the San Francisco Bay Area reports that the Mare Island Naval Cemetery has been declared a “National Disgrace” by a Navy captain. The 160 year old cemetery, founded in 1854, is not a part of the VA system…
Read MoreI came across a couple of articles this week that once again reminded me that not everyone in the funeral industry is above board when it comes to serving client families or doing the right thing when others are not watching. First of all, the Arkansas attorney general reached an agreement with Arkansas Funeral Care…
Read MoreA press release from BusinessWire has indicated that the Great Western Insurance Company (GWIC) of Ogden, Utah, has had A.M. Best upgrade their Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bbb+” from “bbb”. The outlook of the Long-Term ICR has been revised to stable from positive while the outlook of the Financial Strength Rating is stable. The…
Read MoreThe Loveland Reporter-Herald has recently reported that Colorado based Allnutt Funeral Service has been acquired by Service Corporation International and will become part of the company’s Dignity Memorial Network. Allnutt Funeral Service is a 131 year old company that was started in Greeley, Colorado and now has 13 locations. According to Allnutt’s President, Rick Allnutt,…
Read MoreAs Funeral Director Daily starts to roll-out our product to the death care industry we will continue to feature one article per day on an industry happening and give our opinion on that article to be used for the benefit of our readers. While we have tested our ideas and system we have also realized…
Read MoreJust when we are starting to get our hands around the idea of green burials and alkaline hydrolysis joining the traditional methods of earth burial and flame cremation as new concepts in the disposition of human remains along comes an article on what is termed as “ecoLation” to give us more to think about as…
Read MoreHillenbrand Industries, the parent company of Batesville Casket Company, posted 3rd Quarter earnings yesterday and did so by showing an increase in revenues to almost $396 million for the quarter. That represents a 7% increase over the same quarter in 2016 and puts their fiscal year 9-month revenues about $38 million (3.4%) over the same…
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