caskets

Casket companies report sales . . .the slide continues

By Funeral Director Daily / May 21, 2019 /

Earlier in May both of America’s leading casket companies reported their 2019 fiscal year 2nd quarter financials.  Those companies, Hillenbrand, which is the parent company of Batesville Casket Company, and Matthews International, which is the parent company of Aurora Casket Company, reported declining sales of caskets.  You can see Hillenbrand’s 2Q report here and you…

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Have You Seen Coffin in a Box?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 18, 2018 /

My wife and I enjoy going through the Ikea store near Mall of America in the Minneapolis suburbs.  Virtually everything we find there is not only modern and up to date, but we can purchase it for a discount in a box, bring it home, and put it together.  We not only get a great…

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Australia’s LifeArt Coffins on the Market

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2018 /

The other day I was doing some research for the “Finance” portion of Funeral Director Daily.  I like to search public companies world-wide who compete in the death care space and learn where I might be able to make a good investment for the long haul.  In any regard, I was researching InvoCare Limited, Australia’s…

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More on the U.S. Casket Industry

By Funeral Director Daily / December 21, 2017 /

The other day I told you that I had become privy to a report done on the state of the American Casket industry.  We gave out some insights on the industry and both its past decline and its probable future decline in units sold and dollar amounts sold. One of the things that I found…

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The American Casket Market

By Funeral Director Daily / December 19, 2017 /

I’ve been able to receive a private report from November 2017 on the State of the American Casket Market.  It is an extensive report that goes into who are the players in the industry, what is the market like, who has what percentage of market share, what is the profitability of the industry, and attempts…

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