crematories
A recent article in Smart Business Pittsburgh magazine featured the Death Care conglomerate Matthews International. Matthews is known in Death Care from Matthews Memorialization which includes the ability to supply to funeral homes and cemeteries products such as caskets, cremation equipment, and cemetery markers among a host of products. The article, which you can…
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The 3rd Quarter of 2023 ended with the end of September and we thought it would be a good time to take a look at how the public companies in Death Care have held up over the course of the past quarter and past nine months. From our point of view it looks like…
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Part of our mission at Funeral Director Daily is to help the individual funeral home owner or operator understand all facets of their business better and in more depth so that they have the knowledge to make decisions moving forward. In my 35 years of owning and operating a funeral home I tried to…
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I grew up in a home that was pretty conservative and my parents voted that way but never talked about it to anybody. We operated a funeral home and we were open to helping people and doing business with people whether they had our viewpoints or not. I also grew up…
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Last week I spoke in front of a small audience of funeral directors and commented on what I see happening in the Death Care world. One of the things that I have noticed that is very similar to the funeral home world that I worked in is that death care clientele have three…
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We are a little bit late this month but here are the stories that our readers found most interesting over the last 30 days. . .well, actually the 30 days from January 15, 2023, to February 15, 2023. There’s something for everybody in these articles — acquisitions, buy-outs, local promotion, corporate thoughts, and…
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“Focus” is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “the center of interest or activity”. We hear the word a lot. For instance if you want to improve your golf game you might be told, depending on your present strengths, to “focus” on your weakness. . . and improve it, whether that is driving…
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Back in junior high school when I took aptitude tests for future employment ideas the results for my tests were always that I should go into “Marketing”. I pursued mortuary science but I do believe that my “marketing aptitude” was helpful in building our funeral home business. And, while “marketing” can be about…
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It was recently announced by Parting Stone, the company that pioneered solidified remains, and InvoCare, Australia’s leading death care provider, that InvoCare has invested $1 million in Parting Stone. In addition, the two companies will partner to launch Parting Stone Australia, which will be Parting Stone’s first international laboratory. Justin Crowe, founder and Chief Executive…
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According to this press release from Foundation Partners Group, the acquisition of Krause Funeral Homes & Cremation Services of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will allow Foundation Partners Group (FPG) to become the largest funeral service provider in Wisconsin. Mark Krause, president of Krause Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, Inc. has agreed to sell his firm to the…
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