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Earlier in August Funeral Director Daily penned an article about being “creative” in your work about memorializing those who you are entrusted to care for. The article, which you can read here, went so far as to start considering the room where you discuss situations with families that you are serving as the “Creative…
I’m one that believes you can learn something from seeing what the public companies in funeral service are doing. When I was active with my funeral home in the business I would read their quarterly reports and look at whatever comments were made during the companies quarterly earnings call transcripts. . . . .Even…
In a press release Propel Funeral Partners of New Zealand announced a somewhat unusual acquisition. Propel announced in July that they had completed the acquisition of Decra Art. Decra Art is believed to be New Zealand’s largest monument and headstone manufacturer. According to their website that you can access here, they stock…
They are bold. . . . . no doubt about it. And, since they set out upon their mission to distribute caskets directly to the consumer they have defied most predictions and continue to grow. Now, the Titan Casket Company has came out with what may be their boldest decision yet. . .…
The funeral and cremation business continues to evolve. . . . But, are we stuck in some of the “same old business” methods and way too slow for today’s consumers to keep us relevant? That’s a question that I asked myself last weekend. Let’s go back to the early 1900’s and the…
Any funeral director who has been around for any length of time has had an arrangement for the fictitious bachelor, “Uncle George”. Now, “Uncle George” died suddenly and his family members are sitting across the table from you wondering about funeral arrangements. . . . You tell them, “Uncle George…
It was back in June when the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) issued its 2024 Annual Statistical Report. That report showed as CANA said, “. . . “the national cremation rate has grown steadily and predictably for the last 50 years, indicating that neither the recession nor the pandemic have influenced the growth…
According to this article from Mac’s Motor City Garage “Chevrolet truly was working to be all things to all Americans. If the carmaker had its way, every American would be driving a Chevy. And in 1974, James Hartzell, a copywriter for Campbell Ewald, the division’s longtime ad agency, created a slogan that united…
“Synergy” is an interesting word and one that is almost always used when companies align, merge, or are aquired. It is defined as such, “the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects”. That’s exactly…
It was announced in this press release yesterday from Global Atlantic Financial Group (Global Atlantic) that the company had formed a partnership with the largest provider of funeral, cemetery, and cremation services in North America, Service Corporation International (SCI). Announced in the press release as a “10-year partnership, Global Atlantic says it…
