Business
In the thirty-five years that I spent as a working funeral director and funeral home owner I learned to truly comprehend the responsibilities that had been given to me by the families that I served and how they truly relied on my guidance to plan and carry out the memorialization wishes that they had for…
Earlier today we released an article, “Is Now the Time”. It dealt with the growing cost of waiting on projects that you might be planning for your funeral home or cemetery. Since that article came out we have noticed two articles that were recently published that somewhat dealt with trends in the death care industry…
I was in a discussion the other day with some people who are a lot smarter than I am. It was in the room with a volunteer group of Minnesota executives who serve on the University of Minnesota’s ad hoc Debt Management Committee. We discuss all things concerning the debt of the University of Minnesota.…
The vast majority of people in the United States understand the commitment and sacrifice those that serve in our country’s military give both for their nation and for their family. It is something that we understand, but so many times we let it go unsaid. 16 year old Eagle Scout Joshua Katz wants to do…
An interesting article on the Brunswick Memorial Home appeared in CentralJersey.com that you can read here. The funeral home is being honored with the national Funeral Director’s (NFDA) Pursuit of Excellence Award in 2018. To mark 35 years in business, the company recently completed “35 Good Deeds in 35 Days to Mark 35 Years”. Quite…
Yesterday we published an article dealing with the on going price wars for “Simple” cremation in the United Kingdom. It made me wonder about the different pricing methods used by full service funeral establishments in dealing with their cremation clients. For the sake of our discussion, in this article, we are dealing with those full…
We reported in early 2018 that Dignity, the United Kingdom’s 2nd largest funeral merchant with a reported 12% of total market share dropped pricing by 50% in its lowest priced service segment to try to grapple more market share away from leader Co-op Funeralcare who has a purported 16% of the market share. All reports…
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…
