funeral directors

Mexican funeral firm alleges fraud against U.S. company in purchase

By Funeral Director Daily / April 11, 2023 /

    Disagreements can be a part of any transaction.  Today I’ll touch on a lawsuit that was filed last week that once again shows the importance of due diligence being necessary in any transaction.   Last week we learned through this Wall Street Journal article that Mexican funeral service provider Servicios Funerarios had filed…

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It’s Good Friday. . . but Easter is coming

By Funeral Director Daily / April 7, 2023 /

    We are blessed to live in a country which allows for religious freedom.  And, when you work as a funeral director helping those who have lost loved ones to death, it’s a privilege to help even when those client families don’t believe as you do.   However, have you ever thought about those…

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InvoCare rejects takeover bid. . . . Dignity plc company credit downgraded

By Funeral Director Daily / March 30, 2023 /

    This article from Business News Australia, that came out on Monday, March 27, indicates that Australia’s largest provider of death care services, InvoCare has rejected a non-solicited offer of  $Aus 1.8 billion (United States $1.2 billion) from American private equity player TPG Global made earlier this month.   According to the article, TPG…

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Funeral Directors can be the “Local Connector”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 23, 2023 /

    I’ve thought about this many times over the years, but the older I get the more I believe it is true.  That is that there is probably no one in your local community that knows the community better than the local funeral director.   It hit me yesterday as I was at the…

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Care for the Dead. . .Comfort for the Grieving

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2023 /
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    It’s not every day that you turn to the magazine Popular Mechanics to find an article about the Death Care profession.  However, that is exactly where I found this article about “Have trocar will travel” embalming and body preparation specialist Monica Torres.   I was unaware of Torres and her company NXT Generation…

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Can the 4-day work week succeed in funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2023 /
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    If you own, operate, or manage a Death Care business you have massaged your business through the pandemic, supply chain breakdowns, inflated related cost issues, and more in the past two to three years.  Are you ready for what many people are advocating in the near future — the “4-Day Work Week”?  …

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Will rural funeral directors be able to replenish themselves

By Funeral Director Daily / March 1, 2023 /

    Funeral director Collin Bourgeois made this comment in this article from CBC, “I certainly tried to retire.  It lasted three weeks.”   Bourgeois is a funeral director and owner of and operator of a funeral business with three locations in northeastern Ontario.  After 45 years in the business he’s staying on the job…

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Acquisitions, buy-outs, creative ideas. . . here’s a recap of our month’s top stories

By Funeral Director Daily / February 27, 2023 /

    We are a little bit late this month but here are the stories that our readers found most interesting over the last 30 days. . .well, actually the 30 days from January 15, 2023, to February 15, 2023.  There’s something for everybody in these articles — acquisitions, buy-outs, local promotion, corporate thoughts, and…

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Children survivors: 12 year-old leads rally for “Bereavement classes” to be taught in public schools

By Funeral Director Daily / January 17, 2023 /

  My younger brother, Jim, and I learned about the death of a parent the hard way.  I was a 19 year-old Freshman in college and he was a 15 year-old Sophomore in high school when our father died of a sudden heart attack while servicing a funeral.   Immy Leith learned the hard way,…

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The Essence of Gratefulness

By Funeral Director Daily / January 6, 2023 /

It’s probably appropriate that this article will appear in Funeral Director Daily on a Friday.  It’s on weekends, at least it was for me, that many funeral directors feel overworked and neglected.  It’s probably because most funeral homes are short-staffed on weekends and those on duty miss many family activities that take place on weekends…

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