Connecting Directors
I’ve told readers many times that while I owned and operated a small funeral home – one that grew from 140 calls to about 325 calls – I always learned by reading and watching what the “Big Boys” in our industry were up to. That meant, over the years, buying some stock and reading annual…
Read MoreThe lead article in yesterday’s Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune was entitled, “As Churches Close, a Way of Life Fades”. It is an excellent article on the path our nation, and by the graph I’ve put with this article, other nations are heading with church membership. You can read the article here. Funeral Director Daily take: …
Read MoreOver the weekend I read an interesting article from the British publication Moneywise, which you can read here. The article was titled, “Cremation monopoly force prices Up” and deals with, what I would call cremation prices outside of a major metro area. For the sake of this discussion, I believe that the definition of cremation…
Read MoreWe recently came across a couple of brief articles pertaining to existing funeral homes making additions to their operation in order to add new revenue. The first of these articles is from the Hastings (Minnesota) Star Gazette and you can find it here. It pertains to the Ellis Funeral Home of Hastings breaking ground for…
Read MoreI was driving into a board meeting on Monday and listening to one of the business channels on Sirius Radio. The topic that came up and was being discussed was the potential acquisition of Fox by either Disney or Comcast. As you may know, Fox was given an acquisition offer by Disney last December at…
Read MoreThe Nova Scotia Board of Registration of Embalmers and Funeral Directors issued a report last week calling for their legislature to “ensure that there is a system in place” for the handling of human remains. The report was prompted by a mix-up at a Nova Scotia funeral home on December 27, 2017, that was…
Read MoreDeath care industry company Service Corporation International recently presented at the Raymond James 39th Annual Institutional Investors Conference. I’ve found a slide deck about their company on Seeking Alpha that you can see here. It was part of their power point presentation to institutional investors and is an interesting synopsis of the company as…
Read MoreI came across an article the other day on nextavenue.org that you can read here pertaining to the growing number of women who are entering the funeral director field. The article focused on funeral director Jan Smith of Indianapolis who attended mortuary school in the 1990s. Ms. Smith recalls that the number of females in…
Read MoreYesterday Park Lawn Corporation announced another acquisition of a funeral home. Fresh off the announced purchase of seven cemeteries in New York and New Jersey last week for a combined price of close to $50 million, the Toronto based company announced the purchase of the Billingsley Funeral Home in Huntsville, Ontario. In a press release…
Read MoreTwo funeral homes, one in Colorado and one in Utah, have been charged with unlawful acts according to articles about the funeral homes that were published recently. Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors of Montrose, Colorado has been issued a cease and desist order from the State of Colorado for “multiple and willful violations of the Mortuary…
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