funeral home acquisitions
There’s always a risk when a funeral home firm acquires another location. There’s even more risk when a funeral home acquires a location that has had its license suspended by a state board of funeral directors. However, as you can read and view in this report from Pennsylvania’s WTAJ-TV News that’s exactly…
According to this article from the Beloit (WI) Daily News, funeral home owners Jarod and Tania Williams have acquired the two locations of the Brian Mark Funeral Home. According to the Brian Mark Funeral Home website, which you can access here, the company owned and operated funeral homes in Beloit and Clinton, Wisconsin.…
Auburn, Maine, based Death Care organization Milestone Funeral Partners is continuing their growth pattern by announcing last week that they made another funeral home acquisition. This article from WETM of Elmira, New York, makes note that Milestone has purchased a “long-time family operated funeral home in Elmira“. That funeral home was the McInerny Funeral…
About ten days ago this article appeared on investor site Seeking Alpha authored by Caffital Research. The article was about funeral home/crematory/cemetery operator Carriage Services. The title of the article was “Carriage Services: Further upside requires further M&A.” In that article the author(s) stated “Carriage Services, Inc. has still been quiet on the M&A…
In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed articles that truly point to Death Care as being at a nexus, or intersection, of technology and tradition. Today’s Funeral Director Daily article brings you information and links to articles that truly show that Death Care is changing. There is one article that shows…
The negotiations to sell and or purchase a funeral home generally involve “what one is buying and how are they paying for it”. It’s pretty common to hear the terms “asset sale”, “real estate”, “convenants not to compete”, “consulting agreement”, “equipment”, “inventory”, and “goodwill” among the nomenclature of the transaction that takes place between…
In this very brief press release issued out of Toronto, Ontario, last weekend funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation announced that they had acquired two free-standing funeral homes in Colorado’s Western Slope. The press release announced that they had purchased substantially all of the assets of Hood Mortuary located in Durango,…
Funny how 28 hours alone in a car gives you plenty of time to think about things you probably would not think about otherwise. . . . I arrived home in Minnesota on Monday after spending Saturday, Sunday, and part of Monday returning from our winter rental home in Southwest Florida. You might…
I like to stay in the know about all of the National and Regional funeral home and cemetery acquisition and operating companies. Sometimes though I’m surprised by the growth of these companies over time if I have not checked in regularly. I had that feeling the other day about Milestone Funeral Partners when I…
This article from North Country Now of New York announces the acquisition of the Green Funeral Home of Gouverneur, New York, by the Frary Funeral Home. From the company’s website which you can access here, it appears that the Gouverneur location will be the 6th location operated by Frary. The article from…
