casket sales

Titan Casket shows top-line growth in 2021

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2022 /

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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Hillenbrand reports 1Q 2021. . .Batesville sales soar 30%

By Funeral Director Daily / February 8, 2021 /

In the world that we are living in, it is certainly not unexpected, but to see Batesville’s sales soar 30% for the October, November, and December quarter is both mind boggling and sobering. It is, in my opinion, mind boggling simply to see any company, without a major acquisition, grow their sales by 30% in…

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Catching up with the casket business

By Funeral Director Daily / November 5, 2020 /

We are in the period of public companies reporting their 3rd Quarter results to the world and it is only a couple of weeks before Hillenbrand, parent company of Batesville Casket Company, and Matthews International, parent company of Aurora Casket Company will give us those results. As most of you know, those businesses have generally…

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Batesville sales increase 7%

By Funeral Director Daily / August 10, 2020 /

Hillenbrand Industries, a global diversified industrial company and parent of death care company, Batesville, reported their 3rd Quarter 2020 last week.  The company, which operates with an October 1 fiscal year date announced that revenues for the entire company increased 36% to $608 million for the quarter, but Net Income of $24 million was about…

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Matthews Memorialization segment shows revenue gains in 3Q 2020

By Funeral Director Daily / August 4, 2020 /

Matthews International, which operates on a fiscal year that begins on October 1 each year, released earnings reports last week.  The company has three operating segments and the one that is of interest to those of us in the death care profession is what Matthews refers to as its “Memorialization Segment”. Matthews Memorialization Segment consists…

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Matthews reports 1st Qtr 2019. . . . Memorialization segment increases sales

By Funeral Director Daily / February 12, 2019 /

On January 31 Matthews International, parent company of Matthews Cremation and Aurora Casket, reported its first quarter of fiscal year 2019 which covers the period of October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.  You can read the press release from Matthews here. As a company the consolidated sales totaled $374.2 million as compared to $369.5…

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Matthews Posts Record Revenues — Casket Sales Decline

By Funeral Director Daily / November 29, 2017 /

Matthews International issued a press release last Thursday, November 16, reporting on their 4th quarter and 2017 year end results.  It is a report eerily similar to Hillenbrand’s 2017 year end report in that the report was overall excellent but both companies saw sales in their casket units drop.  You can read Matthews press release…

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