Afternoon Edition
I like to stay in the know about all of the National and Regional funeral home and cemetery acquisition and operating companies. Sometimes though I’m surprised by the growth of these companies over time if I have not checked in regularly. I had that feeling the other day about Milestone Funeral Partners when I…
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Earlier this month the United States Postal Services issued a notice that related “effective March 1, 2025, customers will be required to use USPS Priority Mail Express Cremated Remains boxes (BOX-CRE) for all cremated remains shipments. This includes remains shipped as jewelry, blown glass or other artisan works of art.” There is no doubt that cremation,…
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If you have ever served on a cemetery board — for profit, non-profit, church, or community — there is a pretty good chance that some type of dispute came before you. It just goes with the territory of centuries old land and plot ownership of cemeteries. The other day I read this…
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It’s the middle of the month and here at Funeral Director Daily we always take that time to re-cap our most read articles of the past 30 days. As usual, those articles don’t seem to take any one subject into consideration and this month our Top 3 articles deal with the Trump tariffs…
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Yesterday Funeral Director Daily reported on the 4th Quarter and Year-End press release of Service Corporation International. And, last week SCI also had it’s quarterly discussion with financial company personnel in which we peruse the transcript for more detailed information. As has been our practice of late with this type of information…
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I have to admit the subject kind of crept up on me faster than I thought because I had wanted to do a full-blown article on the value of the Mentor/Mentee relationship prior to this notice. . . .But, like a lot of things in my life – it didn’t get done in…
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Yesterday Funeral Director Daily’s feature article was about Matthews International and its 1st Quarter 2025 Fiscal Year results press release. As we digested that report, which like many public company reports, is big on numbers and sometimes small on the underlying issues and causes, we were informed that Matthews International had suffered a…
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Last Monday China shook the financial markets by unveiling that their Aritificial Intelligence capabilities from a company called “DeepSeek” seemed to be further along in developing AI than American counterparts such as Nvidia. . . and doing so with a less expensive model. That moved the financial markets among AI developers such as…
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This morning I read the edition of “Wall Street Breakfast” from Seeking Alpha and it gave very good information on the pros and cons of the “Trump Tariffs”. Since I wrote on the that issue and its possible effects on the Death Care profession/industry in this morning’s edition, I thought I would send…
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This article from North Country Now of New York announces the acquisition of the Green Funeral Home of Gouverneur, New York, by the Frary Funeral Home. From the company’s website which you can access here, it appears that the Gouverneur location will be the 6th location operated by Frary. The article from…
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