Funeral Director Daily
Last Monday, June 3, Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) made an announcement through this press release that they had an agreement to be acquired by Viridian Acquisition Inc., a company formed with assets of Homesteaders Life Company and Birch Hill Equity Partners. The announcement stated that Viridian would “purchase all of the issued and…
A recent episode of the podcast “Two Guys and a Question” brings up the topic “What happens when there is too much month at the end of the Money?” Industry experts Danny Jefferson and Alan Creedy discuss the importance of keeping the cash-flowing in your business during this 11-minute podcast. You can…
If you follow the Death Care financial markets, and even if you don’t but are involved in funeral service, it would have been hard for you to miss the number of “take-private” company movements from public company domains in the last couple of years. I’m reminded of this by last week’s announcement that…
“. . . . delivers a compassionate and thoughtful approach to saying goodbye to loved ones“. That’s a quote from one of the testamonials that I discovered when I looked up Tomorrow Funerals of Australia. I come across a lot of things when I am researching articles for Funeral Director Daily. And,…
In what is what we believe to be a first around the world, the Worthing Crematorium in southern Great Britain has become the first to have one of its cremation chambers switch to hydrogen energy. In what has became known as the “Worthing HyCrem Project”, one of the three cremators at the Worthing…
McDonald’s CEO Joe Erlinger was taken aback enough last week to write a letter to the consumer public about the idea that the cost of a Big Mac meal was now over $18. For some reason that price number went viral and because of that consumers were thought to be avoiding McDonald’s restauarants.…
In news that was announced late on Monday, funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation announced that the company is planning on being taken private through a partnership that includes Birch Hill Equity Partners Management and an affiliate of Homesteaders Life Company, Viridian Acquisition. Here is the press release that Park…
Today is already the first week day of June 2024. . . . At least in my part of the world Summer is in full-swing. And as we move into June we are leaving all the Death Care news of May behind us and heading into the final month of the 2024’s 2nd…
2023 and 2024 have brought up lots of discussion about licensure for morticians, funeral directors, embalmers, transport operators, cremation operators, and removal technicians in the Death Care profession. Much of the discussion was started because of the low numbers of funeral professionals seeking job openings and the many openings left vacant. However,…
Earlier in May Propel Funeral Partners (PFP) of Australia and New Zealand announced the acquisition of three funeral service firms and one company that supplies headstones and monuments to consumers. You can read a short press release on this occurence here. The press release announces the purchase of the following: Brunswick Valley…
