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There was much ado last year about Great Britain’s largest provider of funerals and cremations, Dignity plc, and their upcoming change in strategy. While not apprised of the entire situation, I do know that the company was coming under scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as well as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that the pandemic ushered in a new “work from home” mentality for many American workers. Death care may be a little different in that embalming and cremation cannot be done in a “work from home” environment. However, many aspects of the death care world, such as arrangers, preneed advising, and many…
Read MoreMy summer exercise program consists of running 2 1/2 miles on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and bike riding 5-6 miles, depending on the route on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. I’ve told the readers of this column before that my usual Saturday morning ride brings me from my house on the south side of of our…
Read MoreOver the holiday weekend Fox Business published the article referred to in our headline here. It’s an article that is actually positive to the funeral industry but does tell of the fact that eventually, as costs rise, funeral costs to consumers will have to rise also. The article points out that even though the United…
Read MoreThere’s a lot that America has been divided about lately. . . politics, Supreme Court rulings, reasons for inflation — the list can go on and on. The podcast Big Brains from the University of Chicago, which has the podcast transcript available on the link also, has an interview with anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy that…
Read MoreIn writing Funeral Director Daily I take pride in keeping up with what is happening in the Death Care profession and industry. And, even though the occupation and the choices it has for consumers faced with death of a loved one moves along at a fairly slow and methodical pace, there are changes to keep…
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There is an insurance company that used to use the slogan “The Quiet Company”. That company was, and still is, known as one of the most successful life insurance companies in America. . . . The “Quiet Company” claim came, at least to my way of thinking, from the idea that they used captive agents…
Read MoreCanadian company, Kinwood, issued this press release last month about a recent submission to the Competition Bureau that they say is “evidence to the Competition Bureau that shows the commercial funeral industry, and its regulator are stifling competition in the funeral sector”. Kinwood CEO, Jeff Corcoran, is quoted with this comment in the press release,…
Read MoreUnless you have been living on the Space Station you’ve noticed prices in almost all things are moving up. Housing prices, gasoline, groceries, service work, and even that cup of coffee or latte that you buy at Starbucks. I’m old enough to have lived through this before in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. . .…
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