cremation
In my morning e-mail on investment opportunities this morning was an opinion on Service Corporation International. Michael Gayed of Seeking Alpha wrote a short piece on SCI as an investment opportunity that I thought I would pass on to my readers. You can read Gayed’s piece here. What I found interesting in the article was…
Read MoreWhen you are the owner of a funeral home you have to have a plan for marketing the business. Most funeral director proprietors think about their advertising, their on-line presence, and their pre-arrangement program as a way to market. What many don’t think about, however, is that the services they provide after the funeral to…
Read MoreWe received a couple of articles out of Springfield, Illinois, today concerning a southern Illinois funeral director who has been sentenced to prison for his role in failing to deposit payments for preneed funeral services. You can read about the case in these articles from WGN Web and from KFVS 12. According to the articles,…
Read MoreWe said almost two years ago that the best way for funeral home and cemetery operator StoneMor Partners L.P. to right their ship was to divest themselves of some properties and use the cash proceeds to pay down debt so that they can get to a position where they are operating in a financial positive…
Read MoreAlkaline hydrolysis as a means of final disposition keeps growing in legality in states across the United States. Recomposition, the act of human composting becomes legal in the State of Washington this year, and now it is probable that the State of Kansas will see a bill introduced into its legislature to legalize “promession” as…
Read MoreAccording to this article in the Kokomo (Indiana) Perspective, the Ellers Mortuary and Cremation Center was acquired by Service Corporation International in 2016. Some feared that the acquisition would cause the Kokomo business, that had been in business since 1924, to lose its personal touch. However, according to General Manager Jaime Handy, “the acquisition has…
Read MoreWe will start off our December writings going to the subject of cremation. Over the long holiday weekend we noticed a couple of articles that we found interesting. We will bring you some information from Greece and a couple of cremation products that have their origin in Japan. As you know, from this article that…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily continues its rise as what is probably the fastest growing readership medium in the death care profession. For the past six months, since April 2019, readership has grown 64% — or an average of 10.67% per month. And, we believe that when statistics are in for November, Funeral Director Daily will be…
Read MoreMatthews International reported their 4th Quarter and 2019 fiscal Year Sales last week. The Pittsburgh based public company includes in its portfolio, as one of three business segments, a Memorialization unit that includes Matthews Cremation, Aurora Casket, and Star Granite which are of interest to the death care industry. You can access the Matthews International…
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