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Seeking Alpha gives positive review of Park Lawn Corporation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 11, 2023 /

    In an article that was published on October 1, and I’ll remind our readers that was before Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) had publicly withdrawn its $34 per share offer for Carriage Services, Seeking Alpha authors gave a positive review of Park Lawn Corporation.   The article, which you can read here is entitled,…

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Is Pet Death Care in your future?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 10, 2023 /

  Morgan Stanley equity analyst Simeon Gutman recently made this comment in this white paper from Morgan Stanley, “Americans are increasingly attached to their pets, which is clearly shown in survey results, and thus pet spending is a priority.  Consumers are less willing to cut pet spending even when real personal disposable income declines.”  …

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Impressions of Return Home on Shark Tank

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2023 /

    One might have to ask if the “human composting” company Return Home wanted a deal when they went on Shark Tank and were featured last Friday.  The company, that calls its brand of Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) “Terramation” left the popular show without a deal.   Did they want a deal?  We will…

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Death Care Index drops, now in negative position for the year

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2023 /

  The 3rd Quarter of 2023 ended with the end of September and we thought it would be a good time to take a look at how the public companies in Death Care have held up over the course of the past quarter and past nine months.  From our point of view it looks like…

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“Human composting” company Return Home to be on Shark Tank tonight

By Funeral Director Daily / October 6, 2023 /

  According to this article from the Seattle Times of Thursday, October 5, terramation company Return Home will present its company and product on the television show Shark Tank tonight, October 6.   The article states that the company will be looking for an investment of $2 million for a 5% equity stake in the…

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Carriage Services affirms that it is continuing its “Review of Strategic Alternatives to Maximize Shareholder Value”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 6, 2023 /

    On Wednesday Funeral Director Daily told you of the Tuesday, October 2, press release of Park Lawn Corporation stating that it was withdrawing its all-cash offer to purchase all of the outstanding stock of Carriage Services.  It also mentioned that it had declined to participate any further in Carriage Services’ “Review of Strategic…

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MetLife/U.S. Chamber say business optimism is the best in US since pre-pandemic days

By Funeral Director Daily / October 5, 2023 /

    Those of us who walked the convention halls at NFDA in Las Vegas recently heard lots of reasons why many in the death care profession were not too optimistic about the immediate future of our businesses.  There was lots of talk about inflation causing rising expenses and interest rates taking a bigger chunk…

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Prepare your Ears. . . we’ve got some insightful podcasts for you

By Funeral Director Daily / October 4, 2023 /

    It’s never too late to learn more about attracting and retaining client families.  The marketing to do so can be complicated at times, but it is always good to keep an open mind and you can maybe learn through the education of others.  To that end, we offer these insightful podcasts which we’ve…

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With a history from livery service to modern funeral home. . . Key West funeral home changes hands

By Funeral Director Daily / October 4, 2023 /

  At Funeral Director Daily we hear about a lot of funeral homes that change hands.  We can’t report on all of them, but some family funeral homes have such unique historical characteristics that we like to pass on the knowledge of those transactions just to keep the historical perspective of funeral homes in America…

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Park Lawn withdraws Carriage Services offer

By Funeral Director Daily / October 3, 2023 /

  Yesterday Park Lawn Corporation issued a press release stating that “it has declined to participate further in Carriage Services, Inc.’s (NYSE: CSV) (“Carriage”) previously announced strategic review process and that it has withdrawn its all cash proposal to purchase the outstanding stock of Carriage.”   The press release which you can read here also…

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