death care business

Quinn Foley on Carriage Services

By Funeral Director Daily / August 14, 2018 /

Quinn Foley of Seeking Alpha offers his assessment of public funeral service company Carriage Services here.  This is a recent analysis following the company’s 2nd Quarter financial report. Funeral Director Daily note:  Canadian public funeral home and cemetery company Park Lawn Corporation reports earnings following the market close today.  Stay tuned for our report on…

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Are You Getting Your Wallet Share?

By Funeral Director Daily / July 26, 2018 /

One of the advantages of getting older, grayer, and more experienced in business is that you get a lot of time to reflect on the many things that have happened in the past and then can try to understand how you can put that knowledge into today’s society.  One of the terms I thought about…

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Building Business and Retaining Clients by Adding Services

By Funeral Director Daily / July 24, 2018 /

My wife’s 85 year old father died suddenly last February.  He and his wife had lived in the small – under 3000 person – community that they were both born in for all of his years.  Life in a community like that revolves around community activities that many times are centered around families – not…

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Is Your Funeral Home a Growth Industry?

By Funeral Director Daily / July 20, 2018 /

In my opinion, when I look for something to invest in, I gauge the safety of the investment as well as the possible return and then make a decision if the balance is there between the two.  I also look at two sides of an equity investment as the potential for growth (as defined by…

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Carriage Services adds two locations in Mid-Atlantic Area

By Funeral Director Daily / July 17, 2018 /

Last week Carriage Services, a funeral service public company based in Houston, Texas, announced that they had acquired two funeral homes in the State of Virginia.  You can read the press release here. The release announces the acquisition of the Covenant Funeral Homes in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia.  The release goes on to say that…

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Survive and Thrive

By Funeral Director Daily / July 13, 2018 /

Today we bring you an article from HartfordBusiness.com about a new funeral home business that just opened up in suburban Hartford, Connecticut.  The funeral home is a 5,000 square foot building in Plainville, CT and is owned and operated by a 20-year veteran funeral director Andrea Wasley, a lifelong resident of the community.  You can…

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This is a Strange Story

By Funeral Director Daily / July 10, 2018 /

I recently read an article that came to me from WZZM 13 News in Michigan.  The story surrounds the Michigan Strategic Fund and its June 26 decision to give preliminary approval of a $26.5 million bond issue to a non-profit group called Cathedral of St. Augustine’s to purchase 28 cemeteries in Michigan.  You can read…

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InvoCare adds two heritage funeral homes in New Zealand

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2018 /

InvoCare Limited, the market leading funeral home firm in Australia, announced Friday that it will be closing on two acquisitions from the South Island of New Zealand on June 22.  You can read a clip about this from Motley Fool Australia here. The company will acquire Hope and Sons Funeral Directors in Dunedin and  Whitestone…

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Legacy Funeral Group Announces Texas Acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / May 15, 2018 /

Last week the Legacy Funeral Group announced the acquisition of the Charlie Marshall Funeral Homes.  The Charlie Marshall Funeral Homes were founded in 1949 and have served the Texas communities of Aransas Pass and Rockport for over 65 years.  You can read a press release on the transaction here. According to the press release, the…

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Hillenbrand Reports 1st Quarter, Revises Adjusted EPS Upward

By Funeral Director Daily / February 2, 2018 /

Hillenbrand Industries reported 1st Quarter 2018 earnings on January 31.  You can read the company’s press release here. President Joe Raver made the following comment, “We are off to a strong start for 2018 with continued momentum in the Process Equipment Group.  We remain closely aligned with our customers by providing applications expertise and high…

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