funeral business
Earlier this week Foundation Partners Group (FPG) announced that they have increased their location count to 12 in the state of Colorado by purchasing the entities affiliated with Seitz Funeral Services. In the press release which you can read here, Foundation Partners Group announced that the Seitz Funeral Services group includes Adamson Life Celebration Home,…
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Amazon’s Prime Day concluded Tuesday in what was the 7th annual event for the company. My understanding is that Prime Day was dreamed up as a 20th Anniversary celebration of the company in 2015. 2020 sales for the company in what is actually a two-day event (Monday/Tuesday) were reported as $10.4 billion and estimates are…
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In the summer of 2020, Great Britain’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) investigated the death care business sector and one statement that was made was this, “some funeral directors were providing unacceptable low levels of care of the deceased”. Couple that with the fact that, according to SunLife’s latest cost of dying report, funeral costs…
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Our funeral home will celebrate 150 years of service in 2022. However, we have really only helped families pre-arrange and pre-finance funerals since about 1964 — about 60 years. And, in those early years, it really wasn’t about pre-planning and pre-financing consumer funerals, but about setting up payment options or trusts for those helped through…
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In our continuing desire to keep funeral service professionals up to date on what is happening in the industry, we bring you these sources of information which may be of information to you. Have a great weekend. NFDA “A Brush with Death” podcast series — Podcast #25 brings you the “Class of 2021”. In this…
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One of the things you realize as you get older is that there is a whole new generation of Americans working in your profession and molding that profession in a way that you would have never thought of. Some of that “molding” you may see as good for the profession and some of it you…
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*Guest article written by Alexandra Jo, Culture and Content Manager at Parting Stone. Research shows that across all markets, what today’s consumers find valuable is vastly different than in previous generations. Just like in any other business, understanding consumer trends is an important aspect of planning for your funeral company’s future. Knowing what customers are…
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From time to time over the past couple of years Funeral Director Daily has written articles about the Amigone Funeral Home crematory in Tonawanda, New York. The crematory is part of a funeral home in a residential neighborhood where neighbors have complained for years. Legislation was recently passed in New York that would, when signed…
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Market forces eventually move ideas and products that become staples of our way of life. However, in almost all cases, private investment is needed to spur the product or service into general practice among the American public. Take the Tesla automobile, for instance. Founder Elon Musk didn’t just take the idea of an electric automobile,…
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“One flat price. $895. No Surprises.” That’s how direct cremation provider Solace describes themselves on their web-site. And now, according to this article in Geekwire, they have some cash behind them to spread that narrative about their company. Geekwire mentioned earlier this month that Solace has closed an oversubscribed funding round of $1.745 million with…
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