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Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Toronto based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator, reported their 2019 financial results on Monday after trading hours. The company showed mixed results by increasing their revenue by 51% to $244 million (all dollar numbers are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated) but only generating an additional 2.3% in…
Read MoreYesterday while I was sheltering in place I was able to watch and be informed from two webcasts in the funeral industry. We know at Funeral Director Daily that we can use our subscription power – and your help in passing along the information – to get the word out on best practices in the…
Read MoreThe state of Massachusetts has made some changes in practice that affect the work of funeral directors in the state. The state mentions that these changes are for public health sake and will be effective until rescinded or until Gov. Charlie Baker terminates the state of emergency he declared on March 10. You can read…
Read MoreWe’ve learned that we can use our subscription platform of over 1100 death care industry professionals to get valuable information disseminated throughout the profession. We’ve learned of webinars and/or panel discussions from experts in various fields throughout the profession that you can hear from free of charge. Here are a couple of these type of…
Read MoreOn Friday, or maybe it was Saturday, I was watching President’s Trump daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic and my ears picked up when I heard him him mention some of the companies that were leading the charge against the virus. One of the companies he mentioned was Hillrom. If you have been around funeral…
Read MoreAs we move into the weekend of this strange world we seem to be living in now, I could find any of 50 articles that tell how funeral directors need to be up to the challenge or how funeral homes may suffer financial hits because of the lack of “gatherings” that are allowed to take…
Read MoreReuters published an article yesterday that was picked up by the New York Times today. It is headlined, “As coronavirus hits memorial services, U.S. funeral homes struggle to adapt”. You can read the article here. The article picks up on the Seeking Alpha article that we made available to our readers yesterday bearing somewhat on…
Read MoreEarlier today Seeking Alpha News Editor Yoel Minkoff put out a short piece entitled, “Tough times for U.S. funeral homes“. Oppenheimer securities analyst Scott Schneeberger is quoted in the article. You can access the short article here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
Read MoreUnlike many of you who are a lot younger than I am, I no longer am responsible for working day after day and am no longer responsible for making the everyday decisions of businesses that I was in charge of in the past. What that really means right now is that while I salute you…
Read MoreAccording to this article from ARY News, the Great Britain drafted emergency Coronavirus Bill 2019-21, it is said to allow designated local authorities to disregard section 46(3) of the Public Health Act of 1984. That section is designed to prevent a public authority to be able to cremate a body against the wishes of the…
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