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I don’t know funeral director Jim Ayres but he sounds like a person on a mission to bring funeral directors a good name. And, anybody who is on that type of mission certainly sits good in good standing with me. You can read an article from the Commerce, Texas, Journal here that announces Ayres’ recognition…
Read MoreIt was announced this week that Service Corporation International and the Archdiocese of New Orleans will collaborate on a plan to build a funeral home and cemetery on land owned by the Archdiocese in New Orleans. You can read the press release from Globe News Wire here. The combination unit, which will also have mausoleum…
Read MoreJust this past weekend I read an rather uneventful article about a new employee at a Tiffin, Ohio based funeral home that you can read here. The article centers on the employment of young funeral director Jacob Bowers and his relatively new employment at the Hoffman-Gottfried-Mack Funeral Home and Crematory. The article, in essence, tells…
Read MoreThere is not a business around that doesn’t want a bigger piece of the pie when it comes to market share. Funeral businesses and funeral home owners are no different. So, what is the secret in building your market share? First, there is no silver bullet on how it is done. However, just like Major…
Read MoreAn article that appeared recently on the Bolivarmonews.com web-site which you can read here announced the merger of two funeral homes in Buffalo, Missouri into one facility. It was announced that the Cantlon-Otterness Funeral Home and the Montgomery-Viets Funeral Home will become one entity owned by the Howe family of Lebanon, Missouri. The Howe family…
Read MoreI came across a couple of news articles in the last couple of days that knock home the fact that you have to know who you are hiring when you hire somebody to work at your facility. What are your hiring practices?? With the shortage of licensed help, do you hire the first licensee that…
Read MoreA sale was recorded last Monday in the Dayton, Ohio area pertaining to the purchase of land at 820 Miamisburg-Centerville Road according to property records reported by the Dayton Daily News. The property, with seven acres of land, was owned by Schlientz-Moore Funeral Home and purchased by Warren Family Funeral Homes, Inc. According to the…
Read MoreI came across an article the other day on nextavenue.org that you can read here pertaining to the growing number of women who are entering the funeral director field. The article focused on funeral director Jan Smith of Indianapolis who attended mortuary school in the 1990s. Ms. Smith recalls that the number of females in…
Read MoreThe Journey Group, a death care industry consolidator based out of the New Orleans area, announced last week the purchase and acquisition of two firms in the greater Birmingham, Alabama, area. Both firms are metropolitan combination firms — each with a funeral home facility on a cemetery property. According to the press release that you…
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