Finance

Small volume firms need to know their potential value

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2025 /

    Within the last month Death Care marketing expert Glenn Gould contributed to a Funeral Director Daily article with this comment, “There are too many funeral homes.  NFDA estimated 15,500 firms in 2023; 30% do fewer than 100 cases annually’, 68% do fewer than 200.  Very small firms should be seeking mergers.”   And…

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There must be profits in Direct Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 27, 2025 /

  With the NFDA convention going on in Chicago I thought that I would give attendees something to talk about while exploring the Expo floor.   It was only a couple of weeks ago that Funeral Director Daily let you know in this article that Great Britain direct cremation provider Pure Cremation was being put…

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Seeking Alpha author on SCI stock: “You might want to hold this one until your last breath”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 24, 2025 /

  Seeking Alpha contributiing author Daniel Jones published an article this week titled, “Service Corporation International:  You might want to hold this one until your last breath”.   It is a very interesting article that uses both SCI financial data and United States birth and death data to make a case that SCI, as a…

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Rollings Funeral Services makes acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / October 23, 2025 /
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Funeral Director Daily recently learned that Rollings Funeral Service, based in Georgia, made a couple of acquisitions involving more than 100-year old family funeral homes.  Over the summer they purchased the McCombs Funeral Home of Jackson and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, — a firm that was founded in 1906.   And more recently in October, Rollings…

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PlotBox acquires MIS

By Funeral Director Daily / October 20, 2025 /

    In this press release issued last week you can read that PlotBox has acquired MIS (sometimes referred to as HMIS).  The PlotBox website brings about this statement about the integration of the companies, “ (this transaction) bring(s) one of the industry’s most comprehensive capabilities – from PlotBox’s cloud-native mapping, operations, records, and financial…

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HIllenbrand Industries sold

By Funeral Director Daily / October 17, 2025 /

    Since they sold Batesville in February 2023, Hillenbrand Industries has been out of the Death Care business.  But, if you are a long-time member of the Death Care community the name Hillenbrand has been synonymous with the funeral profession since 1906 when John A. Hillenbrand purchased the Batesville Casket Company and founded “Hillenbrand”…

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Another private equity purchase on the horizon?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2025 /

    There is a lot happening in the Death Care world. . . especially when it comes to Death Care businesses changing hands.  We recently learned that Funeral Partners, one of  Great Britain’s largest Death Care providers with approximately 280 locations across the country may be up for sale.  And, it may be a…

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Pure Cremation’s private equity owner putting the business up for sale

By Funeral Director Daily / October 13, 2025 /

  I learned through an article from Sky News and in this article from KillBait that Epiris, the private equity firm that acquired London area-based Direct Cremation provider Pure Cremation just over two years ago, is beginning a process to sell the company.   Pure Cremation, arguably the most financially successful start-up in Death Care…

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Milestone Funeral Partners adds funeral home acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2025 /

According to the Milestone Funeral Partners website, which you can access here, and information placed on social media, the Maine-based funeral home operator and consolidator added four funeral home businesses to their number in the last couple of months.   Announced on August 8 on the company website was information about the acquisition of the…

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Another acquisition by Park Lawn Corporation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 7, 2025 /

    Maybe there is something to the ongoing prediction that a whole lot of funeral homes will be changing hands in the next 3 to 5 years.  Barely after we were able to get a press release from Park Lawn Corporation out about a funeral home/cemetery expansion in New Mexico we received this press…

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