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Propel Funeral Partners sees higher revenue, net profit in FY2025

By Funeral Director Daily / September 26, 2025 /

    Public funeral home operator Propel Funeral Partners released their Fiscal Year 2025 results recently and the results which cover the period of July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, show higher revenue and higher net profits for the company.  On the downside, however, Propel Funeral Partners (PFP) showed a contraction in funeral volumes…

An economic downturn and the Death Care profession

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2025 /

    With all that is happening in our econony it is very difficult to get an idea of where that economy is heading.  With all of the different indexes in place today and many seeming to go in opposite directions it is hard to get a barometer of where the United States economy is…

Green Burials. . . . . .The Resistance

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2025 /

    Minnesota funeral director Scott Mueller is a proponent of “Green Burials”.  Mueller makes a comment in this recent article from the Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin titled “As interest in green burials grows, so does some opposition”.  Mueller’s comment is this, “As long as people have walked this earth, we’ve had green burials.  Every cemetery…

Is your funeral home “Streaming” yet?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2025 /

    Okay — that headline is somewhat of a trick question.   I’m guessing that your funeral home is “streaming” services. . . . . but, are you “streaming” in your advertising and branding strategy?   As of March 2025 “streaming” represented 43.8% of overall TV watch time in the United States.  And, it is…

News for the profession

By Funeral Director Daily / September 23, 2025 /

      Funeral Director Daily distinguishes itself by being the Death Care “business daily” written by a life-long funeral home professional.  The goal is to bring news and thoughts that today’s Death Care professionals can use to move their current businesses forward.  That is accomplished by publishing thought provoking, original content on one subject…

Arkansas lawsuit questions “Denial of Claims” with “Burial” policies

By Funeral Director Daily / September 23, 2025 /

      As you can read in this recent article from the Insurance NewsNet a plaintiff in Arkansas is alleging that Globe Life “routinely canceled small life insurance policies when confronted with claims”.  The article goes on to say that “The small policies, generally $5,000 to $20,000, are sometimes known as “burial” policies and…

Carriage Services enters Pensacola market

By Funeral Director Daily / September 22, 2025 /

  According to the company website of Carriage Services they operate 23 locations in the state of Florida.  It appears that as of last week when we received this press release from Carriage Services that they are adding two more funeral homes to that total.  According to that press release Carriage Services has acquired the…

Titan Casket “keeps on keeping on”. . . . .and growing

By Funeral Director Daily / September 19, 2025 /

  Trying to be a “BTC” (Business to Consumer) casket company has been tried before and even with great effort the cause was difficult.  However, the people at Titan Casket must relate to the Curtis Mayfield tune “Keep on Keeping On” as they seem to be moving one step forward all the time and growing…

Top articles include funeral home size, reaching a cremation peak, and why not “recurring revenue” for funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2025 /

  The last 30 day period has been one of the best, in terms of page views, in Funeral Director Daily’s history.  As I write this on Wednesday afternoon Funeral Director Daily has compiled 20,085 page views over the latest rolling 30-day period.  That more than likely puts us as the #1 read daily Death…

Demographics play a vital role

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2025 /

  Where people are living has an incredible affect on the number of families a local funeral provider will serve in a given time period.  Today’s article will introduce you to some graphics and articles about how demographics are shifting in the United States.  And, it is really important to know these demographic shifts if…