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I enjoy learning and then finding solutions to problems. It’s something I’ve done since I was a child — find out the facts of the situation and then solve the problem. To that end, I continue to read four business newsletters per day. . . I simply enjoy what I learn from them and then…
Dignity plc, Great Britain’s leading death care provider reported their results for the 2021 calendar year last week and in doing so reported a Profit before taxes of US $42.4 million as compared to a 2020 calendar year pre-tax loss of over US $25 million. This positive swing was accomplished despite Revenue dropping about 1%…
Steve Wright, 4th generation funeral director, recently announced that the Wright Funeral Home in Moorhead, Minnesota, had been sold to longtime employee funeral directors and brothers Adam and Bailey Nordin. The Wright Funeral Home dates back to 1881 and has grown and served the greater Moorhead-Fargo community for 141 years. Steve Wright assumed full control…
I love business and the challenge of building a business. To me it is very much like a jig-saw puzzle. . . . you have to work with the pieces you have and continue to move them around until they, like a jig-saw puzzle, fit together and make everything work. I served on the Board…
Worcester, Massachusetts, funeral director Peter Stefan, age 85 died this week. Stefan made a name for himself, not as a businessman, but as a man and funeral director, of compassion. Even in a profession which exudes compassion among its workers, Stefan stood out to his peers. Stephen Teasdale, the Executive Director of Worcester’s Main South…
American Enterprise Group (AEG), parent company of preneed insurer Great Western Insurance Company (GWIC) and innovative financial lender Live Oak Bank have announced a partnership that will make it possible for funeral home and cemetery business owners to access up to $20 million in capital. A recent press release on the strategic partnership announced that…
As Funeral Director Daily becomes a more popular medium read by more and more death care insiders, I also receive more and more news from funeral home and cemetery interests. It becomes impossible, in a one-topic per day blog, to feature each and every bit of information I receive. So, in an effort to get…
I recently read an article from Yahoo Finance written by Andy Serwer that asks the interesting question, “(Is) inflation the business opportunity of a lifetime?” You can read that article here. Serwer explains that after almost fifty years of very low static inflation that we may be in for a much higher rate for the…
As has become our custom, in an effort that our readers don’t miss the most popular stories published on Funeral Director Daily, we re-cap them in this format for you. This month those stories include a look back in time at the Tri-State Crematory incident as well as a look right here in the present…
