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Joe Redling led cemetery and funeral home operator StoneMor through a time of transition. That transition culminated with the public company being taken private in a buy-out from Axar Capital Management in early November 2022. While the company is now a private enterprise concern and Funeral Director Daily has no access to its financial operations,…
Read MoreI was on my way to a local chapter board meeting of Junior Achievement on Friday morning and listening to business radio. It was at that time that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of November was announced as well as was the PPI for the service industry. Just for the record, the…
Read MoreIn my home state of Minnesota there is a sports writer who every Thanksgiving creates an article and makes a case for the worst person or thing that has happened on the Minnesota sports scene in the past year. I’ve taken some inspiration from that but have also taken into account something my mom drilled…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Today’s guest columnist is Jake Johnson, CEO of Johnson Consulting Group. His article begins here: It’s no secret to anyone right now that businesses everywhere are feeling the impacts of inflation. The funeral profession specifically has seen a rise in costs, and it’s resulted in increased stress and pressure on owners. These…
Read More“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven –“. That is the first verse in Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 and the 2nd verse goes on to say “A time to give birth, and a time to die“. Any funeral director who has ever spent time on a…
Read MoreIn a press release made public on the heels of the company’s 3rd Quarter report, Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), with headquarters in Houston, Texas, and Toronto, Ontario, announced that they had acquired the Schrader, Aragon & Jacoby Funeral Home, Mountain View Memorial Park, and Bustard & Jacoby Funerals, Cremation, Monuments and Receptions of Cheyenne and…
Read More2022 marked a point in the history of Great Britain’s largest death care provider, Dignity plc, where they planned to increase consumer market share for their services by lowering their prices. What they maybe didn’t anticipate was the highest inflationary pressures in the last 40 years on the costs of their services to happen at…
Read MoreWe’ve all talked about it and see it out in the profession — a lack of trained and licensed funeral directors to combat the coming years when America faces a wave of Baby Boomer deaths. Without the influx of new professionals, many funeral homes will be understaffed which can lead to a vicious cycle of…
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