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Finance

Park Lawn Corporation announces three acquisitions

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Toronto-based Park Lawn Corporation, a funeral home and cemetery owner and operator, announced in this press release last week that it had acquired three businesses which constitute an addition of six stand-alone funeral homes, one stand-alone cemetery, three combination funeral home/cemetery properties, and five event centers.  All businesses are located in their growing North Carolina and Tennessee market areas. The companies acquired include Pugh Funeral Homes and New Hope Memorial Gardens in North Carolina, Smith Funeral & Cremation Service and […]

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Business Cremation

Foundation Partners Group fuels growth through cremation

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Recently Foundation Partners Group (FGP) issued this press release pertaining to an article which focused on their business and their business growth.  It was pointed out that Orlando-based FGP, companywide, is approaching a 90% cremation rate in a death care world where the overall cremation rate (in the United States) is close to approaching 60%.  In essence, Foundation Partners Group locations have a heavy cremation mix in their business. According to Chief Financial Officer Thomas Kominsky, quoted in the press […]

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Business

Johnson Consulting’s Jake Johnson on the acquisition market

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Acquisitions: what 2021 taught us and what we can forecast Editor’s Note:  We’ve seen some movement in the acquisition market so Funeral Director Daily asked one of the experts in the industry, Jake Johnson, to comment on what he has seen so far in 2021 and what may lie ahead.  His comments follow: Jake Johnson: The demand for buyers was on the rise in 2021. More businesses considered selling due to the tax implications and high valuations. Business owners started […]

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Finance

Foundation Partners enters Las Vegas market

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It was announced in this press release that Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando, Florida, based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator, has acquired Kraft Sussman Funeral & Cremation Services of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The press release notes that this is Foundation Partners Group’s (FPG) first acquisition in Nevada. . . .the state with America’s highest cremation percentage rate. Tom Kominsky, CFO of Foundation Partners Group, said this of the acquisition, “Kraft Sussman is ahead of the curve in a […]

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Finance

Foundation Partners Group adds Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory

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It was announced last week in this press release that Foundation Partners Group (FPG), based in Orlando, Florida, added another Florida location to its footprint in that state.  It was announced that the Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory would be acquired by Foundation Partners Group giving the cremation heavy consolidator 35 locations in the state of Florida and 166 locations nationwide. Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory operate in Venice and North Port, Florida. According to the press release “The Farley […]

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Cemetery Products

Wilbert adds precast concrete company

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It’s not only funeral homes and cemeteries that are in the business of growing their businesses to better serve clientele. Last week we received word that Wilbert, Inc., the nation’s preeminent burial vault company, made an acquisition to bolster their presence in the Northeast corridor of the United States.  Here is the information that we received in that press release: Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. (“WFSI”) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Maki Family Precast Concrete Businesses of West […]

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Afternoon Edition

The month’s top stories and more

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It is the middle of April and time for us to bring you a list of the top read stories on Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days.  We know many of you are too busy to check in every day and this new feature lets you take a binge look at what you may have missed on those busy days.  Here are our Top Read stories from March 15 to April 15. It will give you some good […]

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Finance

On looking back. . . and moving forward (Part 2)

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We told you yesterday that Carriage Services CEO and Chairman Mel Payne had published a lengthy Letter to Shareholders in early April.   In that letter, that you can access here, he painted what we call a somewhat aspirational future for Carriage Services, after first pointing out how they got to where they are today. Today, we plan to offer our interpretation of how the company is being transformed from one that has about 174 funeral homes doing about 200 calls […]

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Finance

Foundation Partners adds Washington state acquisition

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Foundation Partners Group (FPG), the privately held death care consolidator with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, announced earlier this week an acquisition to add to their 160 plus facilities. In this press release you can read that FPG acquired the Klontz Funeral Home and Cremation Services company based in Auburn, Washington.  According to the press release, this will give FPG 11 locations in the state of Washington.  Here is a United States map showing Foundation Partners locations. According to the press […]

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Finance

Access Holdings raises $630 million for investment expansions

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We learned last week, and you can read more in in an article found on this page from Access Holdings, that the Baltimore based investment firm had secured $630 million in credit facilities to assist it as it goes forward in building out its platform of companies. As you may know, Access Holdings is the mid-market investment firm that is supporting the “buy and build” approach of Orlando based death care company Foundation Partners Group (FGP). According to the press […]

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