cemetery
At Funeral Director Daily we hear about a lot of funeral homes that change hands. We can’t report on all of them, but some family funeral homes have such unique historical characteristics that we like to pass on the knowledge of those transactions just to keep the historical perspective of funeral homes in America…
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InvoCare, Australia’s largest Death Care provider, announced its First Half results for 2023 last week. That was a little over two weeks after they agreed to be purchased by private equity firm TPG Global for a price announced at about US$ 1.18 billion. InvoCare, which also has operations in New Zealand and…
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According to this article in the Sarnia Observer Harold Sonnenberg has been pretty busy as the superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery in Waterford, Ontario, Canada. What’s happened there happens all over North America in cemeteries and provides back-breaking work for those who “fix the problem” to satisfy families of those interred. The…
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Houston based funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services reported their 2nd Quarter 2023 financial report last week one day after Service Corporation International. What may become a common theme is that the companies have been able to increase revenue quarter over quarter during the past year but those gains run into…
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I had an incident in church on Sunday that both the party I was involved with and myself laughed about at the time. However, when I returned home I thought about the situation and wondered to myself, “Is it just me in this stage of life or is humanity, in general, losing…
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One of Funeral Director Daily’s sponsors, the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), will again be helping to host the Peer Support Network online meeting tomorrow night, July 18, at 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central time. Here’s what CANA says about this month’s meeting in a recent press release on…
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I like it when I read about good things happening in the Death Care business. Sometimes, like this story, the good news grows out of bad deeds. . . but, in the end, it’s how our profession can step up and help that makes me feel good about what we do. …
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The Bigelow Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a 2023 National AIA Interior Architecture Award according to this notice from the Journal of the American Institute of Architects. The notice (and link) from that publication also allows for the view of photos of the building. According to that article,…
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Funeral Director Daily is sharing our Wednesday Afternoon Edition to simply make you aware of the National Funeral Director’s (NFDA) “Brush with Death” podcast series and one of its latest editions. We want to make you aware of Podcast #56 entitled “In Loving Memory of Todd Van Beck“. Here’s what NFDA says…
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When a company commits marketing dollars to a specific purpose they want to make sure that those dollars move the needle as far as they can. So, a topic I’m interested in is at what age should a funeral home start putting preneed marketing in front of a potential client? I’m certain…
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