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Last week was a great week to be inside in Minnesota. While many people were trying to get home for the holidays we had temperatures of 15 below zero with winds gusting into the 30 mph zone. That made it a good time for me to hunker down and get a little reading and…
Anthem Partners, the privately-held operator of funeral homes and cemeteries, announced via press release last week that it had acquired a business that operated three funeral homes in the San Joaquin Valley area of California. That funeral business was Sterling & Smith Funeral Directors, Inc. The company has owned and operated facilities in Fresno,…
According to this article from the Los Angeles Times, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released final death statistics for the calendar year 2021 last week. It’s interesting to note that the death rate (the percentage of Americans who die in a given year) has risen at the same time that life expectancy…
I’ve entitled this article “A Funeral Director’s Christmas“. But, I will tell you, I’m not so sure that I would know a funeral director’s Christmas if I saw one. For me, I’ve been licensed 42 years now as a funeral director. So, in a couple of days I’ll be going on my 42nd…
Our friends at Clifton Larson Allen have sent out a short white paper entitled “2023 Economic Outlook: Ignore the Headlines”. You can access the paper here. The white paper lists three key insights for businesses to consider: Will there be a recession or not? There will be both Tailwind and Headwind economic indicators…
Editor’s Note: In keeping with Funeral Director Daily’s recent trend at year-end we are bringing you more information on what to look for as we move into 2023. The following is from (with permission) the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) website and is an interview with FPG’s Zach Mayer, the head of the company’s Nationwide…
Last week funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator Carriage Services announced the pending acquisition of Greenlawn Funeral Homes and Cemeteries of Bakersfield, California. In the same press release, that you can read here, the company took the time to outline what they call their “High Performance and Credit Profile Restoration Plan” (HPCPRP). …
The first sentence from this article in The Star says all that needs to be said about what changes an investor group at Matthews International wants to take place, “Activist investor Barington Capital Group has built a stake in Matthews International Corp and argues the company needs to refresh its board, cut costs and…
Editor’s Note: Today’s article comes from the blog at OneRoom. It comes on the heels of a recent Funeral Director Daily article by Jake Johnson entitled “A funeral home owner’s guide to prepping for 2023″. Here’s OneRoom’s article on “Adapting to Change in 2023“: As our environment continues to experience frequent change, safeguarding…
Today marks the beginning of the Christmas week. For many of us that means that we will be joyously reunited with family members we don’t get to see very often. However, for almost three million American families it will be the first Christmas with a loved one missing from the celebration. For them, it will…
