Funeral Director Daily
I came across this recent article from Yahoo Finance titled “Climate change is ending the Sun Belt boom” and it reminded me how demographics can and will affect the operations of your funeral home. The short article was very interesting and contends, with the use of decade maps over the past 50 years…
It was recently announced in this article from the Fillmore County Journal that Hoff Funeral and Cremation Service recently acquired the former Riley Funeral Homes in both Lanesboro and Chatfield, bringing their number of locations in southeast Minnesota to eight. The 3rd generation funeral business has quietley grown itself into one of Minnesota’s…
It was back in June when the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) issued its 2024 Annual Statistical Report. That report showed as CANA said, “. . . “the national cremation rate has grown steadily and predictably for the last 50 years, indicating that neither the recession nor the pandemic have influenced the growth…
I think it is a pretty well established fact that if a funeral home can get families to talk about what they want to have done at their eventual death the funeral home has a much better chance to pre-arrange that family into some type of financial arrangements to be used at the…
I found it more than a coincidence that the same day I received this press release for the next WilbertEDU session that Yahoo Finance published this article titled “Gen Z is projected to become the largest, wealthiest generation”. It was coincidental because the WilbertEDU session will feature the topic “Bridging the Generational Divide in…
If you do research like I do about the Death Care profession you come across lots of articles that talk about county morgues running out of room to hold human remains. And, one of the big reasons is that so many human remains are going unclaimed in this day and age. When…
According to this article from Mac’s Motor City Garage “Chevrolet truly was working to be all things to all Americans. If the carmaker had its way, every American would be driving a Chevy. And in 1974, James Hartzell, a copywriter for Campbell Ewald, the division’s longtime ad agency, created a slogan that united…
Johnny and Stacey Grimes are the owners of the Grimes Funeral Home in Kerrville, Texas, and according to this article from the Hill Country Community Journal they recently purchased the two Garden of Memories cemeteries in Kerrville to expand their business. More often you see family funeral homes acquire other funeral homes…
“Synergy” is an interesting word and one that is almost always used when companies align, merge, or are aquired. It is defined as such, “the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects”. That’s exactly…
Tonight, Tuesday, July 16 at 8 pm Eastern Time (7 pm Central Time) the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) presents its monthly Funeral Professionals Peer Support Group virtual meeting. This month’s talking point will be facilitated by Peer Support US Program Director Kim Zavrotny and will deal with your working environment. Here’s…
