death care
If you follow the trends in death care you will notice that not only increased cremation continues to happen, but so does interest in alkaline hydrolysis, recomposition, and other “green burial” practices. According to this article, in New Hampshire 18-year old Anya Nicoll and state legislator Jerry Knirk are working towards changing a 1971 state…
Read MoreMatthews International, the parent company of Aurora Caskets and Matthews Cremation products reported their 1st Quarter 2022 financial results last week. It should be noted that Matthews fiscal year begins in October so these results are for the October thru December 2021 period. Of interest to us at Funeral Director Daily are the results of…
Read MoreIt’s been called a “hipster” funeral home. That’s at least what one person labeled Brooklyn, New York’s new contemporary funeral home, Sparrow. Erica Hill, a co-owner of Sparrow says this of comments like that, “Yes, we look different than what you expect a funeral home to be, but that’s okay.” According to this article in…
Read MoreAmericans have been influenced by the Brits for centuries. In the pre-Revolutionary day the colonists enjoyed the tea imported from the East India Tea Company of England until John Hancock’s merchant shop found a way to circumvent the tax on such by buying tea from a Dutch company. Those purchases led to the Boston Tea…
Read MoreI came across this article entitled “Lending USA introduces FastScreen, a New Tool for Pre-Loan Qualification for Funeral Home Merchants” and it reminded me of the struggles I had over the years about implementation of tougher credit policies on client families. The age old “push-pull” credit decision is that you don’t want to make it…
Read MoreIf you had any money in the stock market during 2021 it would have been hard not to grow your investment cache. During the 2021 calendar year the three indices most commonly referred to as a bellwether of the markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq, and the S & P 500 were up…
Read MoreI enjoy learning. I know that there is an awful lot left to learn by me in my lifetime. And, it goes without saying that I love to learn more and more about the funeral profession because it was the profession that I earned my living in. I’ve also found out that sometimes I learn…
Read MoreWe’ve now entered the season where public companies will give their reports on their 4th Quarter and Year End results from 2021. As the death care companies report their results we will bring them to you. It’s also a season where financial and stock analysts like to give us their opinions on what has happened…
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