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This article and video news story from CTV Canada explains that because of a chronic shortage of death care workers coupled with an increased number of deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) “is calling retirees into service to fill out vacancies and for the first time, it’s allowing college…
As we do each month, in case you missed one, we re-cap Funeral Director Daily’s “Top Stories of the Last 30 Days”. Here are the top read stories selected by total page views for the dates of December 15 thru January 15. Foundation Partners announces new acquisition, record growth. Is this the start of the…
Arkansas Business announced in their publication in early January the acquisition of two funeral home locations by Smith Family Funeral Homes of North Little Rock. You can see that article here. Smith Family Funeral Homes acquired the Davis-Smith Funeral Homes located in Hot Springs and Glenwood, Arkansas. The addition of these two properties brings the number…
I’m not one to get too excited over talk. . . .but, I’m also a realist who believes that where there is smoke, there is fire. And, it appears that the trend in America will not go to a longer work week. . . so, over time I’m guessing that we get to a shorter…
In a transaction announced last week but completed on December 27, 2021, according to this press release, Wilbert has merged operations with Memorial Monuments & Vaults (MMV) headquartered in Meridian, Idaho. According to the press release, MMV has 19 locations in the western part of the United States and provides monuments and related funeral services…
While not specific to the death care industry, our friends at Clifton Larson Allen have provided some resources to us to help us in the quest for employees and what it may take going forward to obtain and retain them. Article— Workforce Challenges: Pre and Post Pandemic Access the article here. Webinar—Overcoming Workforce Challenges. Learn…
Today we bring you this interesting article from the Iowa Capital Dispatch concerning a potential funeral director who believed he needed a waiver to receive his Iowa Funeral Directors License. One of the requirements for licensure by the Iowa Board of Mortuary Science is that the applicant has completed 60 college credit hours and maintained…
In this press release from last week, Foundation Partners Group (FPG) announced a new acquisition and also gave some indication of its growth over the past couple of years. Foundation Partners Group is the privately owned death care consolidator based in Orlando, Florida, that appears to set its acquisition sights on cremation heavy firms. FPG…
It’s not every day that something that happens with a funeral gets publicity around the world. However, like in other events in the history of the world, there are points that you can look back on in retrospect and say that they could have been turning points in society mores. As I’ve been searching for…
