death care
If you have followed Funeral Director Daily for any length of time you know that I like to write articles about business. Sometimes I know that I get a little “heavy” on the business articles. However, I also try to put information on other subjects out there to keep a variety of topics at the…
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Labor Day means a lot of different things to many people. It might mean the end of the Summer, Back-to-School time, the start of football season, or the start of the political campaign season. For me, however, when I ran my funeral business, it was always the funeral home yearly check-up time. You see, after…
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Seeking Alpha author Austin Rogers makes a case for the upside future of conglomerate Matthews International. . .a company which receives about 46% of its revenue from the death care space. The article is really detailed about a little history of Matthews and where the company seems to be going in the future. Here’s a…
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Collecting of accounts receivables has came a long way from the 1930’s when a funeral home just asked the client family to “settle up” when ready. Today’s use of cash-flow makes it imperative that funeral homes reduce the amounts of money they have “on the books”. In addition, helping families receive money due them from…
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At Funeral Director Daily we are very fortunate that we have so many Death Care profession industry experts that read our material. And, we are also very thankful that many of them will offer their expertise to our readers if asked. Learning what they know can help progressive funeral homes increase their own business. Today,…
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The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) recently wrapped up its 104th Cremation Innovation Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 60 exhibitors offered solutions for business to all kinds of convention attendees. Barbara Kemmis, Executive Director of CANA made these comments, “After two years of pivoting, it was wonderful to be surrounded again by the…
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Over the years I’ve heard from many consumers that their choice for a cremation disposition had nothing to do with price. Even though I heard that often, and believed the people that told me that, as a funeral professional it was always hard to fathom when it seemed that everywhere you turned you saw cremations…
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Funeral directors come with all kinds of interests and backgrounds. What makes them so interesting is the diverse backgrounds, cultures, and interests that are found among them. But the good ones all have the commonality of becoming ambassadors for the profession simply by plying their trade to humanity. Today, Funeral Director Daily tells you about…
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This recent article was published by Financial Content in Australia about the low-cost preneed market and made the comment, “This rise and popularity of ‘low cost’ prepaid funerals have taken the death care industry by surprise. With household budgets increasingly coming under strain from rising inflation, cost considerations are likely to come even more to…
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Earlier this summer we brought you this article which brought information that parent company Hillenbrand Industries was contemplating “strategic alternatives” for its Batesville division. Last week Forbes contributing writer Jim Osman expressed in this article his opinion that the Batesville division should be “spun-off” from Hillenbrand in order to unlock “shareholder value”. Osman contends that…
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