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Throughout my entire career in a small community, the funeral homes and the cemeteries helped each other out. We had somewhat of a mutual dependence on each other that helped us both. For instance, when our funeral home served a family we would always suggest earth burial or entombment for the full body casketed funeral…
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We expected 2022 to be a year of mergers and acquisitions in the funeral home business. However, we are also quickly learning that the marriages of companies will not be confined to those in the funeral home business, but in death care suppliers as well. Last month we reported on Wilbert’s acquisition of Memorial Monument…
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I’ve been out of active funeral directing for the past eight years. And, I won’t apologize for it, but I’m a traditionalist when it comes to funeral service. That means I still believe in the value of the public acknowledgement of death, the tradition of a service or celebration of life, and the idea of…
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How would your funeral home come out in terms of profitability if you advertised a pricing method billed as “Pay what you want”? Now, Caledonia Cremation is not your normal “Mom and Pop” funeral/cremation shop, but their January promotion is unique. Here’s what they say on their promotional website which you can access here: “Everyone…
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It’s been called a “hipster” funeral home. That’s at least what one person labeled Brooklyn, New York’s new contemporary funeral home, Sparrow. Erica Hill, a co-owner of Sparrow says this of comments like that, “Yes, we look different than what you expect a funeral home to be, but that’s okay.” According to this article in…
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According to this article from Business Wire online retailer Titan Casket grew its revenues by 400% in 2021. The company also disclosed that November 2021 was its “largest month ever”. Titan was started in 2016 and allows consumers to purchase their caskets directly online for shipment to the funeral home of their choice. Titan Casket…
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I would guess it was twenty years ago or about that length of time that I was asked to volunteer as a board member of our community’s largest non-denominational cemetery. The cemetery was large enough and did enough business that it had a full-time caretaker who took care of sales, provided interment services using cemetery…
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In a transaction announced last week but completed on December 27, 2021, according to this press release, Wilbert has merged operations with Memorial Monuments & Vaults (MMV) headquartered in Meridian, Idaho. According to the press release, MMV has 19 locations in the western part of the United States and provides monuments and related funeral services…
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It’s not every day that something that happens with a funeral gets publicity around the world. However, like in other events in the history of the world, there are points that you can look back on in retrospect and say that they could have been turning points in society mores. As I’ve been searching for…
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I’ve been out of owning and managing my own funeral home for eight years now. Funeral Director Daily keeps me involved with all that is going on in the profession, but sometimes the research I do makes me think I’ve become a little naive to some of the “dog eat dog” competition that is out…
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