cemetery business

Park Lawn reports 2019 results, Brad Green named Interim CEO

By Funeral Director Daily / April 1, 2020 /

Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Toronto based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator, reported their 2019 financial results on Monday after trading hours.  The company showed mixed results by increasing their revenue by 51% to $244 million (all dollar numbers are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated) but only generating an additional 2.3% in…

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SCI reports 4th Qtr and Year End numbers

By Funeral Director Daily / February 18, 2020 /

Even though yesterday was the President’s Day holiday and the markets were closed across America, Service Corporation International took the opportunity to report their financial numbers for the 4th Quarter of 2019 and also for the Year End 2019.  We will just report some of the numbers today and after we have a chance to…

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Cremation only cemetery being planned

By Funeral Director Daily / February 12, 2020 /

The city of Amherst, New York, is proposing to build a “first of its kind’ memory garden in that community.  The cemetery, if built, proposes to be a cremation only cemetery with walking paths and gardens and would not allow standard headstones as seen in most cemeteries.  The idea has been proposed by the city…

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Park Lawn Corporation completes acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / February 3, 2020 /

Last Friday the Park Lawn Corporation, headquartered in Toronto, issued this press release which confirms that they have completed an  acquisition announced earlier in the year.  The press release tells of the completion of the Nashville, Tennessee area acquisition which includes Family Legacy, LLC, a business with 12 locations.  The acquisition also includes the membership…

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Outside the box. . or Vertical/Horizontal?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 28, 2020 /

Many people talk of taking their business “Outside the Box” to find new creative ways to generate more revenue and build their business enterprise.  I’m certainly no MBA guy in Business or Finance. . .  but, more or less I’ve been involved in business for about 50 years since I had my first paper route. …

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Throwback Thursday — Cold weather and the burial business

By Funeral Director Daily / January 23, 2020 /

Editor’s Note:  I happen to be on vacation this week.  And, when you are from Minnesota, you take vacation in a warm weather climate.  Just for a little throwback to last year at this time, I happened to be on my vacation from Minnesota when the Polar Vortex got stuck over the state.  And, I…

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Funeral Director Daily hits milestones!!!

By Funeral Director Daily / January 9, 2020 /

A couple of days ago the world not only broke into a new decade, but the turning over of the calendar into 2020 also signified a milestone for our little newsletter, Funeral Director Daily.  Last week we passed into the realm of going over 1,000 daily subscribers to the blog I created just to stay…

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Park Lawn rings in the new year with acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2020 /

Toronto based funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) announced in a press release on January 2, 2020, that they had acquired two businesses under common control in Tennessee.  In this release PLC announced that they had purchased the stock and membership interests of Family Legacy, LLC and WG-TN, LLC (Harpeth Hills Funeral…

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Cemeteries and their problems

By Funeral Director Daily / January 2, 2020 /

Over the last couple of years of writing the daily article for Funeral Director Daily one of my routines is to continuously search for information that might be of interest to those in the funeral, memorial, or what is now being called the “Death Care” space.  In doing so, I have came across many articles,…

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Musgrove Family Mortuaries joins Foundation Partners Group

By Funeral Director Daily / December 26, 2019 /

We learned last week that one of the northwest United States premier funeral home families has decided to cast their lot with Foundation Partners Group (FPG).  Musgrove Family Mortuaries and Cemeteries, based in Eugene, Oregon, announced last week that they had been acquired by FPG.  You can see the press release from Foundation Partners Group…

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