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Titan introduces the “Mystery Casket”

By Funeral Director Daily / November 26, 2024 /

    Titan Casket, the business to consumer national casket company has introduced what they term their “Mystery Casket” for sale through Cyber Monday.  According to this release from Business Wire, Titan’s Mystery Casket will be sold to consumers through Cyber Monday for $1,199 — the release notes that is a 60% discount when compared…

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Seeking Alpha’s Valkyrie Trading Society opines on Matthews post-earnings release

By Funeral Director Daily / November 25, 2024 /

  It didn’t take long for an investment advisor to get a take on what they think about Matthews International’s 4Q Earnings Report of last week.  The article from Seeking Alpha’s contributer Valkyrie Trading Society is titled, “Matthews International:  Signs of Deleveraging and Margin Improvement”.  You can access the article here.   Here’s a short…

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Matthews releases quarter and fiscal year end results, stock price rises

By Funeral Director Daily / November 25, 2024 /

    Matthews International, which provides memorialization products and cremation solutions among its multi-faceted business segments announced their Fiscal 4th Quarter and Fiscal Year End results last Thursday.  Matthews operates on a fiscal year that ends on September 30 of each year.   While the company had some positive attributes for the quarter such as…

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The death of Julian Litten. . . and more

By Funeral Director Daily / November 22, 2024 /

  A few days ago I came across this article from  Great Britain’s newspaper, The Telegraph.  The headline was intriguing to a person like me who worked in Death Care, so I continued to read the article.   Turns out that the article was an obituary news article of sorts dealing with the life and…

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Matthews announces dividend increase

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2024 /

  Matthews International, parent company of Matthews Aurora Caskets, Matthews Cemetery Products, and Matthews Environmental Solutions (cremation products) announced yesterday that they will be increasing the dividend that they pay on common shares of their stock by $0.01 per quarter.   That will increase the dividend to $0.25 per share per quarter or $1.00 per…

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Survey indicates the Top Location in each state for dispersal of cremated remains

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2024 /

    In October Choice Mutual, an end-of-life burial insurance company released the results of a nationwide survey of over 3,000 individuals that, among other things, asked where in their home state would they want their cremated ashes to be dispersed or scattered.   According to one article I read, the impetus for this survey…

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Security National Financial issues 3rd Quarter Earnings Press Release

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2024 /

    Funeral Director Daily published an article on Security National Financial Corporation’s 3rd Quarter 2024 results on Monday using the company’s November 14, 2024, Form 10-Q as our guidance as no press release had been issued from SNFC at that time.   Later on November 18, a press release on the earnings from SNFC…

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NFDA testifies on Veterans burial issues

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2024 /

    We learned last week from this National Funeral Director Association (NFDA) press release that Lesley Vitter, NFDA’s Senior Vice-President of Advocacy, testified on November 13 at a Congressional House Committee hearing that concerned reviewing “Our Nation’s Hallowed Grounds”.   According to the press release “The hearing focused on assessing and improving the Department…

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Top articles from the past 30 days: Experiential sales, new products, staff changes, and the “Big Easy” all make the cut

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2024 /

    It’s the middle of the month and time to re-cap the Most Read Stories of the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily.  Funeral Director Daily tries to publish a variety of information, news, and opinions with a wide variety of Death Care interests.  It looks like we succeeded in the past 30…

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More help for Children’s Grief

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2024 /

  I was excited on Friday morning when I received some information from a reader of Funeral Director Daily.  You see, I started Funeral Director Daily a few years ago with the idea that it could be a network for those working in the death care profession to be able to access thoughts, ideas, and…

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