Business
Australia’s largest purveyor of death care services, InvoCare, has been accused by some of irregularities in the way that it handles its invoicing. According to this article from Choice.com, InvoCare routinely includes a $320, plus taxes, “administration fee” on invoices. Again, according to the Choice.com article, the administration fee functions somewhat as a “late…
Read MoreRussell & Pica Funeral Homes now operate out of Brockton and West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. According to this article, land is now being cleared for the company’s third location which will be in Lakeville. The funeral home company plans to build a 6,700 foot funeral home on a 70,134 lot across from a Walgreen’s on Bridge…
Read MoreLast week I learned about, what I might classify as extraordinary and possibly trend setting – if one can say that about funeral establishments – new funeral home that opened recently in London. The business named “Exit Here” was conceived by British restauranteer Oliver Peyton and his business partner, Barry Pritchard, a third generation funeral…
Read MoreAs we go into the weekend we just thought we would update our readers with some new construction going on in the death care business. The following articles pertain to individual or family owned businesses either being started or being expanded. As we have seen many times with the ideas of proposed crematories — there…
Read MoreI received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 — in a class of about 40 males and one female. That is just the way it was. . .there were no young women going into the business at that time. Today, the mortuary science classes at my alma mater are about 70%…
Read MoreMonday morning I received a call from a lady I know who works tirelessly with the community’s Junior Achievement organization. She mentioned that they were looking for some new board members and she wondered if I would be interested in serving. My first thought was, “I don’t need more board positions”. I’ve served on a…
Read MoreYesterday we started the talk of annual budgeting for a funeral home by looking at what are the expectations for overhead, profit, and a savings plan in that budget. You can see yesterday’s article here. Today, we will try to explain how we set the revenue parameters to make sure that we have a great…
Read MoreI live in Minnesota and every year when the calendar turned over into November I had two thoughts. . . Five months of winter ahead and time to make sure the income and expense budget for the funeral home is set up for the new year ahead. I operated a funeral home that over time…
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