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The Radio Advertising Landscape for Funeral Homes By Welton Hong There are about 15,500 radio stations in the United States. Combined, they have an enormous audience: About 90% of the people in the country of almost any age listen to radio at least monthly. That makes radio a great place for funeral service advertising,…
Read MoreThe top read article for the last 30 days published on Funeral Director Daily dealt with, not only the loss of men in the funeral service workforce, but the loss of men in the workforce in general. We’ve all seen many more women in funeral service over the past decades but what about the participation…
Read MoreToronto-based Park Lawn Corporation, a funeral home and cemetery owner and operator, announced in this press release last week that it had acquired three businesses which constitute an addition of six stand-alone funeral homes, one stand-alone cemetery, three combination funeral home/cemetery properties, and five event centers. All businesses are located in their growing North Carolina…
Read MoreWilbert Funeral Services, Inc. announced last week that they had acquired certain assets of the Continental Casket Company of Watseka, Illinois. According to a press release received by Funeral Director Daily, “Continental is a regional distributor of metal and wood caskets with three warehouses serving funeral professionals in Illinois and areas of Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky,…
Read MoreI’ve told you before that I get a lot of ideas for articles simply by seeing what is going on in “current events” and then trying to hypothesize how those current events will affect the death care industry. I’m writing this column on Thursday, October 14, and during my workout this morning with the television…
Read MoreRecently Foundation Partners Group (FGP) issued this press release pertaining to an article which focused on their business and their business growth. It was pointed out that Orlando-based FGP, companywide, is approaching a 90% cremation rate in a death care world where the overall cremation rate (in the United States) is close to approaching 60%. …
Read MoreFamily-owned Quinn Hearse and Limousine, headquartered in Northern Ireland recently received funding from the United Kingdom’s Innovate UK Fund, Invest Northern Ireland, and others to develop the “Coffin Pod”. According to this article, “The Coffin Pod is a sealed glass pod which will allow funeral directors to transport coffins safely, and allow families to have…
Read MoreRecently we found this article written by Daniel Jones for Seeking Alpha. In the article he brings out the pros and cons of an investment in Service Corporation International. One question that he asked in the article when considering that Service Corporation International has greatly increased its gross revenues is this, “On its face, all…
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