A 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 MoreThe New York Post reported over the weekend in an article that you can read here that the State Bureau of Funeral Directing has notified 94 New York morticians that they will lose their licenses if they don’t re-take their exam by June 30 or apply for an extension to December 31. In addition, according…
Read MoreDeath care industry company Service Corporation International recently presented at the Raymond James 39th Annual Institutional Investors Conference. I’ve found a slide deck about their company on Seeking Alpha that you can see here. It was part of their power point presentation to institutional investors and is an interesting synopsis of the company as…
Read MoreBUSINESS
Discretion over Valor
I was reminded this week that many times “Discretion is the choice over Valor”. In writing today’s column, which will eventually get down to the Death Care business, I’m going to share a…
Demographics: How the changes may affect your funeral home
Back when I was a child there was a soap opera daily on television that carried the slogan, “Like sands through an hourglass, so go the Days of our Lives”. I thought of…
Does the latest Producer Price Index put funeral homes between a rock and a hard place?
The business news last week was centered on the Producer’s Price Index (PPI) rising 0.6% in the month February, which equates to an annual 7.2% inflationary rate. That reading, after being lower and…
FINANCE
Propel Funeral Partners reports 1st Half 2024
The growth of Propel Funeral Partners of Australia and New Zealand is apparent when you look at the company’s financial report covering the 1st-Half of 2024, ending on December 31, 2023. In looking…
Our Take: Park Lawn/Carriage Services 2023 dance ending with no agreement probably worked out best for all concerned
Back in 2017 when I served on the board of the University of Minnesota I had a hand in the hiring of new Head Football Coach P.J. Fleck. Coach Fleck is still…
Park Lawn Corp reports 2023. . . Revenues increase 6.6%
Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), a publicly-held funeral home and cemetery operator reported their 2023 4th Quarter and 2023 Full-Year financial results last week. In those results, which you can see here, the…
REGULATIONS
Unclaimed bodies causing issues in Canadian provinces
What happens when deceased human remains remain unclaimed? In the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador that situation is causing a problem. According to this article there is no easy solution on the…
Friday was a “Great Day” for funeral service
Friday was March 15 or the “Ides of March”. And, it appears that Friday, March 15, 2024, was a better day for funeral service than Friday, March 15, 44 BC was for Julius…
CEMETERY
CREMATION
Are you registered for CANA’s “Thinking Green” cremation symposium?
It is a only a little more than a month away. . . .are you ready to attend? The “It” I’m referring to is the “Thinking Green” Cremation Symposium hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada,…
PRENEED
“Preneed” or “Funeral Contribution Funds”
There is an old saying that goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink”. I think that the meaning of that phrase, in human terms is something…
Who will be the “Disruptive Force” in Death Care?
About a month ago I read this article from Yahoo Finance titled, “Retail employees are working fewer hours. Here’s why that is a risk to the economy”. While the article was good and…
Can Preneed lead funeral homes forward
If you operate or work at a funeral home you know that there is a lot of change going on. . . . .Let’s see, there is less church membership leading to less church services. …
PRODUCTS
“See No Fees” looks to funeral industry for growth
If you are an independent funeral home owner you know it is not all about just being a great funeral director and/or embalmer anymore. You need to be a solid business-person and understand…
Will Prelude be the product?
I’m always searching the web for things that might be tied in to the funeral/cremation or greater Death Care business world. Just the other day I came across a website for a…