Funeral Director Daily

The Revenue Drop

By Funeral Director Daily / October 30, 2018 /

While I did not attend the recent National Funeral Director’s Association gathering in Salt Lake City, I recently visited with an attendee about the gathering. One of the things that this veteran funeral director told me was that he cannot remember a time when so many traditional funeral home owners talked about revenue declines and…

Distance from major city forces cremation prices Higher

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2018 /

Over the weekend I read an interesting article from the British publication Moneywise, which you can read here. The article was titled, “Cremation monopoly force prices Up” and deals with, what I would call cremation prices outside of a major metro area. For the sake of this discussion, I believe that the definition of cremation…

Pure Cremation Secures $10 million in Venture Financing

By Funeral Director Daily / May 22, 2018 /

Pure Cremation, the company that was started in the United Kingdom in 2015 recently announced that it will have received a total of US $10 million in funding for its low cost model of simple cremations following death. According to this article from Evening Express which you can read here, Elliot Kaye, an investment director…