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My wife and I happened to be staying on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the date of the Chinese New Year in 2020. . . that date was January 25, 2020. I remember it vividly because as we came back to the hotel from dinner the Chinese New Year party was starting…
It was announced in a recent press release that industry veteran Jim Price has joined the team at Johnson Consulting Group. In the press release Johnson Consulting Group described Price as “a distinguished professional with an unparalleled career spanning over five decades in the funeral and cemetery profession. Price’s strategic acumen and proven success record…
When funeral home, cremation, and cemetery company InvoCare was taken private last year by private equity firm TPG Global it pushed Propel Funeral Partners Limited to be what we believe is the largest publicly-owned death care provider in Australia and New Zealand. And, Propel Funeral Partners is not standing still as this article…
We learned from this article in the Houston Chronicle that Service Corporation International (SCI) is planning to build a new headquarters building adjacent to their current headquarters later this year. The article points out that the new headquarters to be built on Allen Parkway next to the current headquarters could total a construction cost…
In any given year there is a lot that happens in any industry or profession. And, there was a lot that happened in death care in 2023 such as the continuing Federal Trade Commission continuing to look into and holding hearings on the status of “The Funeral Rule”. Or, on the more…
It is a only a little more than a month away. . . .are you ready to attend? The “It” I’m referring to is the “Thinking Green” Cremation Symposium hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, by the Cremation Association of North America (CANA). It’s happening from February 14-16, 2024, and you can learn much more…
In a year when the “Magnificent Seven” technology stocks led a robust rebound in the technology heavy NASDAQ stock index it appears that investors in traditional funeral home and cemetery public companies looked on with a wary eye as to how those companies would fare moving into the next stage of death care…
Pierce Colleges of Funeral Services (PMC) announced via a press release on January 2, 2024, that Joseph Finocchiaro has been named the President and CEO of the three campus system. Finocchiaro has most recently been serving as President of the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science and will continue in that role as well as…
Just a couple of days ago Funeral Director Daily brought you an article about a group or residents who live in a neighborhood where a crematory is being built. As many times happens these days, those neighbors are opposed to the establishment of a crematory in their neighborhood. That friction seems to happen a…
It was only a couple of short months ago that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a new bill into law which allowed for less regulation in the preneed insurance business in that state. Proponents had argued that unless there was more freedom in how preneed companies controlled their growth rates more and more companies would…
