cremation
Mergers and acquisitions in the death care space are nothing new and actually seem to be accelerating in not only the retail funeral home and cremation space but among suppliers as well. Earlier this week we learned of Foundation Partners Group acquiring the Loyless Funeral Homes of Florida and we learned of Wilbert Funeral Services,…
Read MoreAn article from the Seattle Times that you can read here mentions that the State of Washington currently has only two lawful means of disposition of human remains — burial and cremation. State Senator Jamie Pedersen intends to ask the legislature to double the number of ways by introducing a bill in the next session…
Read MoreAssurant Preneed, a component of Assurant, posted higher revenue and higher profits in their 3Q 2018 results that were made public after the market on Tuesday. You can read the company’s press release on its earnings report here. Assurant, a member of the Death Care Index (DCI), operates a world-wide conglomerate composed of three segments…
Read MoreWhile I did not attend the recent National Funeral Director’s Association gathering in Salt Lake City, I recently visited with an attendee about the gathering. One of the things that this veteran funeral director told me was that he cannot remember a time when so many traditional funeral home owners talked about revenue declines and…
Read MoreWith cremation as a choice of disposition gaining acceptance and practice across the United States it stands to reason that funeral homes and crematory operators don’t just get into “a routine” without checking all of the boxes prior to the actual cremation. Since cremation is irreversible, it behooves us as a profession to get it…
Read MoreLast week Funeral Director Daily passed the 500 subscriber mark for e-mails sent daily to regular readers. Thanks for signing up. All growth has been organic and now, since I’ve learned how to use Google and other search engines we are growing by about 1% per week. When you consider we had about 8 readers…
Read MoreOver thirty-five years as an owner operator of a community funeral home I made hundreds of business decisions. Some were easy, some were hard, some worked out, some didn’t. The one common denominator is that I did my research and thought that I was doing the right thing to either help the community or gain…
Read MoreThe Cremation Association of North America just wrapped up its weeklong gathering of cremation professionals at CANA2018. While I did not attend, I have kept up with some of the issues that were discussed and saw a quote come out of the convention that I wanted to discuss further. The quote I am referring to…
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