Business
It’s the day following Labor Day and that, traditionally, is when most students joyfully scurry back to the classroom. However, for those in a couple of funeral service collegiate programs it is not so easy this year. We learned last May that Mount Ida College of Massachusetts would be merged (or absorbed) by the University…
Read MoreIn the last couple of days I have read articles from different areas of the United States pertaining to the establishment of “Green Cemeteries” in those locales. The first you can read here and comes from the southern portion of Illinois and concerns the City of Carbondale turning a city cemetery over to the option…
Read MoreAustralian funeral service market share leader, InvoCare, is moving forward with capital expenses aimed at becoming more appealing to Baby Boomers in spite of several headwinds on funeral service down under. You can read an article from Australian Financial Review on the slowing of InvoCare’s business here. In the article InvoCare CEO, Martin Earp, mentions…
Read MoreLast April Mount Ida College decided to close its doors for good. Most students from the college were able to find continuing studies when the University of Massachusetts – Amherst acquired the campus. However, that school does not have a mortuary science program and those students from Mount Ida College with partially completed degrees, in…
Read MoreIt seems to me that in this day and age of declining revenues per case in the funeral business, that every ancillary service a funeral home/crematory can secure can be a god-send for business. Many funeral homes will try to sell a better casket or urn, or will push cremation jewelry or an urn vault…
Read MoreThe Cremation Association of North America just wrapped up its weeklong gathering of cremation professionals at CANA2018. While I did not attend, I have kept up with some of the issues that were discussed and saw a quote come out of the convention that I wanted to discuss further. The quote I am referring to…
Read MoreWhen I was younger the election night banter we always heard was as the title of this article, “As Maine Goes. . . So Goes the Nation”. What it meant under those circumstances was that the State of Maine had an uncanny history of always selecting the Presidential candidate correctly, so the commentators pointed out…
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