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Cemetery upkeep, price changes, and use

By Funeral Director Daily / December 27, 2019 /

As we close out this Christmas week we thought we would share with you some information on cemeteries that we noticed in the news this week. Our first news story and video comes to us from New Orleans and deals with the Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, which is being closed to visitors for the next…

Cape Town appeals for cremations

By Funeral Director Daily / December 4, 2019 /

On Monday we brought you an article featuring the Church of Greece telling its parishioners that they would be denied a church service if they choose cremation over the long traditional custom of earth burial. Today, we bring you this article which deals with the topic of the City of Cape Town, South Africa, appealing…

InvoCare accused of billing irregularities

By Funeral Director Daily / November 29, 2019 /

Australia’s largest purveyor of death care services, InvoCare, has been accused by some of irregularities in the way that it handles its invoicing. According to this article from Choice.com, InvoCare routinely includes a $320, plus taxes, “administration fee” on invoices. Again, according to the Choice.com article, the administration fee functions somewhat as a “late…

Decision overturned. . .golf course to become cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / November 27, 2019 /

The Ontario Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) met in October and reversed a decision made more than a year ago about a closed golf course in Lakeshore, Ontario. According to this article from the CBC, the Roman Catholic Diocese of London (Ontario) appealed an earlier decision that will allow it to turn the 143 acre…

American Entrepreneurship. . . funeral homes are a big part of it

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2019 /

Monday morning I received a call from a lady I know who works tirelessly with the community’s Junior Achievement organization. She mentioned that they were looking for some new board members and she wondered if I would be interested in serving. My first thought was, “I don’t need more board positions”. I’ve served on a…

StoneMor Partners reports 3rd Quarter

By Funeral Director Daily / November 13, 2019 /

StoneMor Partners L.P. reported their 3rd Quarter and 9-month 2019 numbers last week and with it showed significant progress in their attempt at a transformational turnaround of the company. In brief, StoneMor reported that revenues are stabilizing, that they are cutting recurring expenses, and that they have made progress on a divestiture process that will,…

The future of StoneMor

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2019 /

As we mentioned in yesterday’s Funeral Director Daily, the earnings season is upon us for public companies to report their operating results for the 3 months ended September 30, 2019. On November 7 we know that cemetery and funeral home owner and operator StoneMor Partners LP will give us those numbers and do know that…

Carriage Services announces Buffalo, New York acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2019 /

Carriage Services, the public company death care consolidator and operator based out of Houston, Texas, announced last week that they had made a major acquisition in the Buffalo, New York, market. In this press release you can read from Yahoo Finance, the company announced that they had acquired the four locations of the Lombardo Funeral…

California, wildfires, and funeral home generators

By Funeral Director Daily / October 14, 2019 /

Many of you know that I live in west central Minnesota in a small community virtually equidistant between Minneapolis and Fargo, North Dakota. Our area, over the years has had some powerful and destructive tornadoes, but they are quick and generally affect only a small destructive path. If you happen to be in that 2-5…

Park Lawn reports Q2 results

By Funeral Director Daily / August 13, 2019 /

Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Toronto based consolidator and operator of funeral homes and cemeteries reported their financial results for the 2nd Quarter of 2019, the period that ended June 30, 2019, yesterday. You can see a short synopsis of the results in this press release. Park Lawn’s CEO Andrew Clark is quoted in the…

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