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Zacks Research previews SCI earnings report

By Funeral Director Daily / October 26, 2021 /

We found this report, dated October 21, interesting from Zacks Equity Research.  Here’s an interesting couple of lines from the report. . .”SCI is likely to display year-over-year declines in the top and bottom lines, when it reports third-quarter 2021 numbers on Oct 27. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $800 million,…

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The labor market and your funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / October 26, 2021 /

Over the weekend I read some articles pertaining to the secular world of business that I have tried to boil down to how they will affect the death care profession/industry.  One article from Yahoo Money is entitled “Making sense of the Twisted Sister labor market“.  You can read it here. That article points to what…

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Zen Center, funeral home share space

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2021 /

I think there is a lot to be said about “businesses serving their community” in appropriate ways.  And, I think in funeral service as we move forward to more niche businesses that will become more and more evident. You can read in this article from the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, how a funeral home and the…

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NFL’s Steelers not amused by end zone cremation scattering

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2021 /

If you have been a funeral director for any length of time a family member of a cremation disposition has approached you about their idea of scattering the cremated remains at a certain location.  Most of the time the question has been asked in relation to a public park, a church yard, a lake, or…

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Park Lawn Corporation announces three acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / October 19, 2021 /

Toronto-based Park Lawn Corporation, a funeral home and cemetery owner and operator, announced in this press release last week that it had acquired three businesses which constitute an addition of six stand-alone funeral homes, one stand-alone cemetery, three combination funeral home/cemetery properties, and five event centers.  All businesses are located in their growing North Carolina…

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Foundation Partners Group fuels growth through cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2021 /

Recently Foundation Partners Group (FGP) issued this press release pertaining to an article which focused on their business and their business growth.  It was pointed out that Orlando-based FGP, companywide, is approaching a 90% cremation rate in a death care world where the overall cremation rate (in the United States) is close to approaching 60%. …

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Going to Great Britain? Make sure you stay here

By Funeral Director Daily / October 14, 2021 /

The City of Sheffield is located north of London and not too far from both Manchester and Nottingham in Great Britain.  Sheffield’s City Cemetery was built in 1836 in response to the overcrowding and poor conditions in Sheffield’s churches.  Today, 87,000 souls rest eternally in the cemetery, but you can also spend a night there.…

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Do you know your vendors?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 12, 2021 /

There is an incredible amount of trust in the death care business.  Families trust funeral directors to care for their most prized possessions — their loved ones who die.  And, good funeral directors know of that trust and do everything within their power to diligently carry out the requests of families who put that trust…

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The opportunity for the “Not so Big” funeral business across North America

By Funeral Director Daily / October 11, 2021 /

We commented on an article about what an author called “Big Funeral” in last Friday’s edition of Funeral Director Daily.  While I told you I didn’t agree with much of the article from Wired, I thought it was a pretty good read and, at least, one author’s not so great opinion of the death care…

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Will pet cremation be the next “Big Thing” in the funeral home business?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 7, 2021 /

Every once in a while I come across a couple of items that are sometimes related and it makes me think about potential business aspects of the items when combined together.  That recently happened to me once again — late in September I received a marketing e-mail from the Cremation Association of North America (CANA)…

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