Funeral Director Daily
We took a look at the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) at the close of the market day on Friday, August 18, 2017, which is a three month time period from when we last looked at it on May 19. The DCI Index, which consists of one share of six publicly traded death…
Every Monday we try to give a little run-down on items that we have noticed in the media concerning funeral service, cemeteries, and related services. Today we have everything from a story about a benevolent funeral director giving back to his community to a funeral homes nightmare about a family receiving the wrong cremation remains.…
Probably the worst kept secret in the funeral industry over the past 30 days or so has been the pending acquisition of Premier Care of Florida which includes several properties, most notably Anderson-McQueen Funeral and Cremation Centers of Florida, by Foundation Partners. Anderson-McQueen, which serves the west coast Florida counties of Hillsborough and Pinellas, has…
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…
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…
Here 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…
I 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…
