Funeral Director Daily
Suffice it to say that if you are in a C-Suite office at Matthews International you probably have a lot on your plate right now. Amidst other items that we will report on later including a large shareholder’s discontent leading to Board member nominations, the sale process of the SGK Brand segment, and an…
President Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk are rapidly looking at costs that are currently in the government budget that may be able to be whittled out. It may not be perfect and it may not even be proper — as is discussed in this Yahoo Finance article…
There has been a lot written about the stock markets in the two weeks of the Presidency of Donald Trump. So much seems to depend on what the item of the day with President Trump is and that item seems to move markets one way or another. I’m an amateur investor and…
Every day I search out articles about Death Care services to provide me with information on topics of interest in our profession/industry. One of the things that has been extremely disappointing to this life-long funeral director and funeral home owner is the amount of negative publicity our profession piles on itself because of…
Last Monday China shook the financial markets by unveiling that their Aritificial Intelligence capabilities from a company called “DeepSeek” seemed to be further along in developing AI than American counterparts such as Nvidia. . . and doing so with a less expensive model. That moved the financial markets among AI developers such as…
If you have been a funeral director for any length of time you have found yourself in a cemetery on a beautiful summer day when after the formal committal service the family remains to visit and you see young children play on cemetery monuments. However, as this archived CBS News article mentions, children…
This morning I read the edition of “Wall Street Breakfast” from Seeking Alpha and it gave very good information on the pros and cons of the “Trump Tariffs”. Since I wrote on the that issue and its possible effects on the Death Care profession/industry in this morning’s edition, I thought I would send…
The International Trade Association defines tariffs as such: “A tariff or duty (the words are used interchangeably) is a tax levied by governments on the value including freight and insurance of imported products. Different tariffs applied on different products by different countries.” I’m writing this on Saturday morning and the “Trump tariffs”…
Sometimes we make the process of gaining business or market share more complicated than it has to be. We pay for focus groups and surveys and hiring marketing companies to tell us how to grow our businesses. All of those methods can help and paying experts in those fields to do just that…
Over the last couple of decades there arises every once in a while the idea that the Walt Disney Company should get into some of the businesses that funeral home operators and cemetery operators specialize in. That’s recently been in the news again. I first really thought about Disney and Death Care…
