Products
Last week we learned through this press release that Better Place Forests was offering a new product to consumers that they felt would appeal to those consumers in a cost-conscious manner. The new product is known as “Spreading Groves” and gives consumers the option of scattering cremated remains in Better Place Forest dedicated…
Tomorrow I’ll be on my way to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) convention in New Orleans. I’ll spend three or four days there, see old friends, grasp new products and see innovations for the first time. This is probably true with many funeral service professionals. . . . but the older I get,…
If you have read Funeral Director Daily for any length of time you would know that I believe that there is an opportunity for increased revenues at funeral homes and cemeteries from what I term as the “Cremation Aftermarket”. My point is that there is a large percentage of American consumers who believe…
In late September we learned that The Natural Funeral of Lafayette, Colorado, was launching a program in which existing funeral homes can purchase what the company calls “Chrysalis” vessels for use at their own funeral homes or other facilities. The “Chrysalis” vessels are used for the human disposition process of Natural Organic Reduction…
In what is becoming a growing trend among larger funeral home operators Anthem Partners announced in late September that they had formed a strategic alliance with Premier Preneed Marketing and National Guardian Life (NGL) that they believe will help grow their preneed business. According to a statement in the press release from Jim La…
Better Place Forests (BPF) has been known for being a place where families can have meaningful “in-person” experiences with memorialization in the company forests. Last week we learned of BPF’s acquisition of digital platform Butterfly which will now give the company the addition of “High Tech” digital memorials that can be accessed online…
I know a lot of people in funeral service. And, I might make a wager and say that most of those that I know are humble and enjoy helping their community and the world in which we live. Many of those people, when they look in the mirror, see somebody who has enjoyed a…
Just over a month from now, from October 19 thru the 23rd, I’ll be in New Orleans attending the 2024 National Funeral Directors Association National Convention. I procrastinated but still got registered under the “Early Bird” registration that saved me $150 right off the top. . . . . I also reserved my hotel…
In a press release from yesterday we learned that funeral home and cemetery operator Foundation Partners Group (FPG) has acquired the end-of-life planning company Cake. The press release, which you can access here, states “Foundation Partners Group, the second largest provider of funeral services in the United States, today announced the acquisition of…
This article and news story video from Fox 43 of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will introduce you to a small Franklin County, Pennsylvania, farm where owner Max Justice is on “a mission to bury the way we are buried”. Justice’s farm is producing biodegradable caskets made from fungi, hemp, and mushroom mycellium. By the time…
