funeral home acquisitions
With one acquisition announced in December and another in January Newcomer Funeral Service, based in Topeka, Kansas, continues to grow. The Newcomer website states “Newcomer Funeral Service Group is an independent funeral home, crematory, and cemetery service provider based in Topeka, Kansas with operations in ten states.” According to this press releasefrom…
This article from the Tri-City Herald of Washington state lets us know that what will now be the largest funeral home operator in the Tri-Cities, Einan Funeral Homes, has grown by adding Hillcrest Funerals and Cremation to their group of funeral homes and cemeteries. Those funeral homes are located in Kennewick and Pasco,…
On Monday of this week Park Lawn Corporation announced that they had continued their Texas acquisition growth with the purchase of the Callaway-Jones businesses located in and around Bryan, Texas. According to the press release which you can read here, Park Lawn Corporation acquired “substantially all the assets of Callaway-Jones Funeral Home and…
In this press release from Tuesday, September 10, Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) CEO J. Bradley Green announced both that the PLC leadership team had some changes to it and also that the company had acquired operating locations in North Carolina and Texas. In probably the most noticeable move of the executives, it…
Next week we will be commenting on how the public companies in Death Care have done over the 2024 2nd Quarter, but it is always good to be reminded that the individual owners and operators are the ones that truly drive funeral and cremation care. . . . .And, it’s good to be reminded…
If you missed Tuesday morning’s article entitled “The ‘Roll-up” model. . .these analysts don’t think it is so great”, because of our technology issues, you can access that article here. It was no surprise that Park Lawn Corporation shareholders approved the sale and take-private movement of Park Lawn Corporation in…
It was recently announced in this article from the Fillmore County Journal that Hoff Funeral and Cremation Service recently acquired the former Riley Funeral Homes in both Lanesboro and Chatfield, bringing their number of locations in southeast Minnesota to eight. The 3rd generation funeral business has quietley grown itself into one of Minnesota’s…
Last year the largest death care service provider in Australia and New Zealand, InvoCare, was taken private in a buy-out by private equity company TPG Global. It appears that action has led to the 2nd largest provider of death care services of those nations, Propel Funeral Partners, to rapidly move forward with their…
A press release dated Tuesday, February 20, 2024, announced that the Park Lawn Corporation had acquired two stand-alone funeral homes and a stand-alone cemetery in the state of Colorado. You can read the press release here. Park Lawn Corporation announced that “it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets…
In a press release that we received this week, from the Newbridge Group, we learned that three funeral homes in the state of Maine had been acquired by Family First Funeral Homes & Cremation Care. The press release also stated, “three funeral homes previously under the ownership of Service Corporation International (SCI) have…
