Funeral Director Daily
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…
Great timing and the ability to get a CEU credit for watching and learning about our nation’s Arlington National Cemetery is being offered free of charge tomorrow, Thursday, May 30, by our friends from Wilbert. The CEU one-hour program is titled, “A National Shrine- Arlington National Cemetery”. And, after Monday’s annual wreath-laying by…
I’m one of the lucky ones who receive a text message from industry veteran Danny Jefferson everyday. His texts can be inspirational, aspirational, or simply good business thoughts. The other day I received this text from Danny, “Perceptions are reality to most people. Perceptions are extremely hard to change”. Receiving…
Alan Wolfelt is one of the great death care eductors of this generation and when I get a chance to read his works I always learn something. In the latest edition of NFDA’s The Director magazine Wolfelt authors an article entitled “Efficiency does not equal Effectiveness”. In that article Wolfelt makes the case…
When I was looking for material for a short Memorial Day piece I came across this website of the American Battle Monuments Commission which lists and shows, with pictures, all of the American cemeteries across the world that our county maintains in order to let our Veterans, and those that loved them, always…
We are just a weekend away from honoring our veterans with Memorial Day celebrations across the country. In word we received last month we learned that Musgrove Family Mortuaries and Cemeteries was getting a head-start on the celebration by announcing a new “Court of Honor” to “to remember and respect Oregonians who served…
