cremation
Today’s feature in our popular “Get to Know Them” edition is centered on Peter J. Rose, CFSP, LFD, and General Manager of the Betz, Rossi, Bellinger and Stewart Family Funeral Homes in Amsterdam, New York. While the “Get to Know Them” feature is centered around getting to know the profession and what differing duties and…
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*Re-printed with permission from Pure Cremation. Before 2015 the funeral industry in Great Britain still looked and felt very Victorian. Most ceremonies were still rooted in 200-year old traditions and any deviation from the norm was frowned upon by both funeral directors and mourners. However, this was set to change when veteran undertaker Bryan Powell…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition we bring you opportunities to continue to learn with a webinar from Disrupt Media and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), a new podcast from the National Funeral Directors Association, and a useful article from Clifton Larson Allen on planning an exit from your business. We also have a couple…
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Last week Vrishali Bagree of Zacks presented an article that appeared on Nasdaq.com. It was entitled “Rising demand keeps funeral industry going: Four stocks to watch”. You can read that article here. In essence the article tells that the Zacks Funeral Services industry is housed within the broader Zacks Consumer Staples sector. According to the…
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In the last couple of weeks we have seen headlines and television news stories about black smoke rising from crematory exhaust stacks. This article and news video from WSVN of Miami, Florida, shows what appears to be a problem from a crematory near the community’s Little Havana neighborhood. Steven Bedoya, an environmental specialist supervisor of…
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We gave a little history on Arlington National Cemetery in yesterday’s edition of Funeral Director Daily. As a follow-up to that I promised a little more today. I had always heard that the eligibility requirements for interment in Arlington National Cemetery were more stringent than in the other Veteran’s National Cemeteries scattered across the country.…
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Today’s “Get to Know Them” article features Bob Heidlage of Global Recruiters of Cincinnati.. I know Bob only from his kind comments that he passed on to me about his daily reading of Funeral Director Daily. From those comments I wanted to know more about him and his link to the death care profession. From…
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Yesterday we published an article dealing with the potential $1 billion value of a consolidated group of companies that serve the death care space. Yet, to my knowledge, not one of these companies deals with the physical aspect of taking care of the deceased human being. I was, and still am, somewhat astonished at that…
Read MoreToday we bring you several news reports, articles, and video pertaining to a crematory in New York state that last week had black smoke billowing from its cremation stack. The funeral home, and its crematory, are located in Tonawanda, New York, and according to some of the articles, this is not the first time that…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition we bring you information from some of our colleagues in the death care industry. We have news from the National Funeral Directors Association about their upcoming national convention as well as three new podcasts from them that you might find interesting. We also have news from some of our business associates…
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