cemeteries

NFDA cancels In-person Convention & Expo

By Funeral Director Daily / July 6, 2020 /

In a press release released last week, the National Funeral Director’s Association (NFDA) announced the following: “Out of concern for the well-being of funeral professionals, exhibitors and association staff, the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) has canceled its in-person 2020 International Convention & Expo, scheduled for October 18 through 21 in New Orleans. NFDA will…

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Security National joins Russell 3000 and other Death Care News

By Funeral Director Daily / June 30, 2020 /

Today’s afternoon edition of Funeral Director Daily brings you an update on death care public company Security National Financial Corporation (SNDC) and its inclusion into the Russell 3000 stock market index.  SNFC, which operates in the funeral, cemetery, cash assignment, and preneed portions of the death care industry was brought into the index as of…

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Pennsylvania church apparently moves graves without permission

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2020 /

I came across this article from the Echo Pilot of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, the other day.  To me, it is a somewhat disturbing article on a church cemetery, or what I’ll call an annex, with apparently only two burials in the annex.  The church also owns a main cemetery and apparently were moving two vaults from…

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Keeping the business flowing

By Funeral Director Daily / June 3, 2020 /

I love the idea of “American ingenuity”.  To me it means the thought process that is developed to keep things moving ahead even when the system to do so has been upended.  And, around the world this Spring, the system has truly been upended with the advent of the COVID-19 situation. However, if you are…

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Park Lawn Corporation 1Q 2020: Revenues increase 47.5%

By Funeral Director Daily / May 14, 2020 /

Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Toronto based funeral and cemetery operator, issued a press release, that you can read here, on its First Quarter 2020 operations earlier this week.  Highlights from that press release seem to be that the company increased its revenues from CAN $50.15 million ( US$35.6 million) in 2019 to CAN $73.98…

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Mathews 2Q 2020: Improved pricing for caskets and memorial products. . . but, lower unit sales

By Funeral Director Daily / May 11, 2020 /

Last week Matthews International, a publicly traded company with a segment of its business in the death care realm reported 2nd Quarter 2020 results.  According to a press release you can read here, due to their international operations, the company believes their business units began experiencing the impacts of COVID-19 earlier in the quarter, initially…

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Will this current challenge change funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / March 25, 2020 /

Unlike many of you who are a lot younger than I am, I no longer am responsible for working day after day and am no longer responsible for making the everyday decisions of businesses that I was in charge of in the past.  What that really means right now is that while I salute you…

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Carriage Services’ Mel Payne “We went big, we went bold, we went long term”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2020 /

We reported back in February on Carriage Services’ 2019 4th Quarter and their 2019 year end report.  We told you at that time we would be listening for their Earnings Call and would eventually report on that as well.  You can access the entire earnings call from this web page.  Here are some interesting comments…

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Human composting bill introduced in New York

By Funeral Director Daily / March 5, 2020 /

Last year the state of Washington became the first in the nation to legalize human disposition by human composting or recomposition, as it has been termed.  That law allows the process starting on May 1 of this year. Since that news broke we know of efforts in Colorado to move recomposition forward.  We also know…

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TGIF – It’s been quite a week!!

By Funeral Director Daily / February 7, 2020 /

Let’s see. . . Super Bowl, State of the Union Speech, Impeachment Vote, my Minnesota Twins got involved in a blockbuster baseball trade, and my Minnesota Gophers beat arch-rival Wisconsin in basketball. . . it’s been quite a week to keep everything straight.  To end it for my Funeral Director Daily readers I will not…

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