The pyramids in Egypt were built to give permanent memorialization to the rulers of that land. The tomb of the 13th Disciple to Christ, Matthias, can be seen to give credence to his life. George Washington, known by many as the Father of America has a burial site at his Mount Vernon home. However, there can be no doubt that we are on a trend line to make permanent memorialization an afterthought to human life. And, I think that is […]
Last week Foundation Partners Group issued a press release through Cision PR Newswire that you can read here. The release dealt with some of the company’s ten year history in that it has grown into a company with nearly 160 locations serving over 75,000 families annually. Another thing that the release shouted was that Foundation Partners Group (FPG) serves a clientele that chooses cremation for 86% of its dispositions. It’s noted that FPG believes that is an industry leading metric […]
Last week we received news that Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based funeral, cremation, and cemetery business operator made another acquisition that added eight death care locations to its portfolio as well as a pet death center. The company purchased Cascade Funeral Directors, Inc. (Cascade) which encompassed the aforementioned companies. The acquisition added locations in the Portland and Salem, Oregon locales. It included six Crown Memorial Centers, Canby and Molalla Funeral Chapel, Autumn Funeral Cremation & Burial, and Dignified Pet […]
It didn’t take long into 2021 to hear of news on the acquisition front. This press release will tell you of the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) acquisition of three funeral homes in New Mexico. According to the press release the company acquired the Riverside Funeral Homes located in Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. These three locations will be FPG’s first foray into the New Mexico market. The funeral homes were owned by Charlie Finnegan who had expanded […]
Earlier this week Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based funeral home, crematory, and cemetery operator announced that it had purchased a company that operated three locations in Southwest Florida. You can read the press release on the acquisition here. Foundation Partners Group announced that it had acquired the Akin-Davis Funeral Homes. They also announced that this addition will bring their total number of funeral homes in the state of Florida to 30 locations. Akin-Davis Funeral Homes have served their communities […]
It’s Friday and we are heading into the weekend preceding the Thanksgiving holiday. With all of the death care companies reporting earnings reports in the last couple of weeks and our coverage of those we have a few articles that we feel our readers should have access to, yet we are not able to feature them in individual articles. So, here are some links that you can check out on your own this weekend. . . . .and they bring […]
As we head into the weekend we thought we would catch you up with some information that is both of interest to our readers, but sometimes hard to catch as you are busy in your daily work and don’t have time to check out death care information as we do. . . . but that is our goal here — to bring you information in a click so that you don’t have to search for it. This article, with photos, […]
In a press release that we received last week, Foundation Partners Group announced that they had expanded and repositioned their leadership team. According to the release that you can read here, this will “position the company for continued growth and innovation.” The release explains that Bob Bukala, formerly the President and CEO, will remain CEO and also assume a role as Vice Chairman of the Foundation Partners Group Board of Directors. The release also explains that Kent Robertson, the company’s […]
Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based company that has grown by acquisition to over 140 locations of funeral homes, cremation centers, and cemeteries across the United States announced earlier this week that they had acquired the Clark Legacy Center of Kentucky. According to this press release from Foundation Partners, the acquisition will add three locations to the Foundation Partners network. Clark Legacy Center operates facilities in the Kentucky communities of Nicholasville, Frankfort, and Versailles. Again, according to the release, “The […]
Funeral Director Daily received word last week that Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based operator of funeral homes, cremation centers, and cemeteries, has acquired the Bermudez Family Cremations and Funerals operation in Monterey, California. That acquisition expands the Foundation partners network in California to eight locations. Here’s what Foundation Partners Group CEO Bob Bukala had to say about the acquisition, “Bermudez Family Cremations and Funerals makes a great addition to our growing portfolio of operations in Northern California. The business […]
