Funeral Director Daily
It’s probably happened to all of us at one time or another. You thought the answer you received in a buying decision was the final answer, but, at the end of the day, it turned out to be a partial answer and you became a disappointed purchaser of that good or service. …
Earlier this week we received notice that LongRange Capital has completed the acquisition of Batesville. The transaction of purchasing the Batesville Company from public company Hillenbrand Industries was announced late in 2022 and apparently now has been completed. In addition, the private equity firm announced in this press release that Batesville CEO…
Victoriaville & Co., the Canadian based company that provides death care merchandise on three continents, announced in this press release a 67,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Cleveland, Ohio. According to Alain Dumont, President and CEO of Victoriaville & Co., “This manufacturing addition to our existing capacity has become necessary in order to…
This article from the Canton Repository announced last week the purchase of Canton, Ohio, based funeral home Kreighbaum-Sanders Funeral Homes by Alliance, Ohio, based Cassaday-Turkle-Christian Funeral Home. Cassaday-Turkle-Christian’s Adam Christian made the following comment, according to the linked article, “We are honored that the Sanders family has given us the opportunity to…
Public company Matthews International, with a stake in the death care business, reported their Fiscal Year 2023 First Quarter last week and in doing so reported a company-wide quarter over quarter sales revenue increase of about 2.4%. The entire revenue increase, however, comes from their much heralded investment in the energy storage solutions business.…
“Focus” is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “the center of interest or activity”. We hear the word a lot. For instance if you want to improve your golf game you might be told, depending on your present strengths, to “focus” on your weakness. . . and improve it, whether that is driving…
Alan Creedy and Danny Jefferson are two veterans in the death care business. They have not only managed and owned funeral homes but have advised hundreds of death care operators. The two of them put out a podcast entitled “Two Guys and a Question“. I recently listened to one of their podcasts that…
It’s no secret that as a percentage of dispositions, cremation continues to grow. This article from Forbes entitled “Cremation is gaining popularity as funeral costs rise” gives that indication and their thoughts on why that is so. Forbes states in the article that over the last 15 years the United States cremation rate…
I ran across this article the other day that is entitled, “Financing a Funeral: Crowdfunding, insurance, credit cards, loans, and payment plans”. The article comes from a publication called “The Enlightened Mindset” and appears directed towards the consumer. I don’t think it is a “bad” article, but you can also tell it is not…
