cremation

Parting Stone’s Justin Crowe to appear on Shark Tank

By Funeral Director Daily / April 5, 2023 /

    Parting Stone, the company that has pioneered “solidified remains” for cremation remains, will be represented on ABC’s Shark Tank this Friday evening by founder and CEO Justin Crowe.  According to a press release from Parting Stone, “. . . Crowe will be pitching the service on the April 7th episode of Shark Tank”.…

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Matthews, Carriage Services lead Death Care Index to 1Q 2023 gain

By Funeral Director Daily / April 3, 2023 /

    It’s been an interesting first quarter if you are invested in the stock market.  We’ve seen interest rates continue to rise and we’ve seen popular opinion on what that might do to technology companies vary.  In addition, we’ve seen technology companies reduce their workforce even as some of their stock prices have increased.…

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Don’t be Narrow Minded. . . Open up your leadership style

By Funeral Director Daily / March 31, 2023 /

    The other day as I was reading some information on the current stock market I saw this quote, “Narrowing leadership is rarely a good thing for market health”.  The quote pertained to the current tech company stock market and pointed out that leadership, as referenced by value gains, in that segment had narrowed…

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The Funeral Director “facilitator”. . . . . .with less financial reward

By Funeral Director Daily / March 29, 2023 /

    Not so many years ago the role of the funeral director or mortician in a community was to prepare the deceased for burial and coordinate all services between the family that was requesting services and the church body that was delivering those services. . . .which most of the time consisted of a…

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Robert Waltrip, Acquisitions, and Excess Deaths make up the Top Stories of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / March 17, 2023 /

    It seems amazing to me how fast 30 days seems to go.  Once again we offer up our Top Read stories from Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. . . Here they are. . . Enjoy the weekend. . .   In Memoriam:  Robert Waltrip, SCI Founder. InvoCare receives over US…

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It’s not just the big guys making acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / March 17, 2023 /
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  As small town funeral home operators we many times look at the acquisitions of the big public companies or the regional consolidators with a little envy about being able to do that ourselves.  We look at how they get faster growth and more revenue and in many instances we know that we would like…

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Customer experiences, Women in funeral service, Peer Support, and the Economy. . . .interesting things to learn about

By Funeral Director Daily / March 15, 2023 /

    We thought we would use an Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily to pass on some upcoming webinars and podcasts that deal with recent happenings. . . . Customer experience is what it is about now in retaining client families, more and more women are entering the Death Care workforce, our friends at…

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Seeking Alpha opines on SCI, Carriage Services, and Park Lawn Corporation

By Funeral Director Daily / March 15, 2023 /
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  When it comes to the five remaining public company stocks that make up the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) we have heard from four of them as to their Quarter ending on December 31, 2022.  We are just waiting to hear from the management of Security National Financial Corporation to finish up…

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Influencers and events leading to modern Death Care

By Funeral Director Daily / March 9, 2023 /

    Last week we wrote of the death of Robert L. Waltrip, founder of funeral and cemetery business Service Corporation International (SCI).   In the article I wrote that Waltrip was arguably the biggest influence on the direction of the Death Care in the United States during the last half of the 20th century.  …

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InvoCare receives over US$ 1 billion dollar buy-out offer

By Funeral Director Daily / March 8, 2023 /

    Yesterday it hit the United States business markets that InvoCare, Australia’s largest death care provider was offered AUS$ 1.81 billion in a non-binding take-over offer.  According to this article on the subject from Reuters, that would equate to an offer in the amount of US$ 1.22 billion.   The offer has came from…

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