funeral home acquisitions

Security National Financial makes two January acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / January 27, 2022 /

Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), parent company of Utah-based Memorial Mortuaries announced in two separate press releases the acquisition of two funeral service companies, one of which also operates a large cemetery in addition to their four funeral locations. In this press release you can read of the acquisition of Salt Lake City provider Holbrook…

Foundation Partners Group announces new acquisition, record growth

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2022 /

In this press release from last week, Foundation Partners Group (FPG) announced a new acquisition and also gave some indication of its growth over the past couple of years. Foundation Partners Group is the privately owned death care consolidator based in Orlando, Florida, that appears to set its acquisition sights on cremation heavy firms.  FPG…

Anthem Partners expands to Canada

By Funeral Director Daily / December 21, 2021 /

This press release from Frisco, Texas, based Anthem Partners will let you know that the privately-held operator of cemeteries and funeral homes has expanded into Canada with the addition of the Speers Group of Companies.  According to the press release, the Speers Group consists of funeral homes and memorial gardens located in the provinces of…

Park Lawn enters state of Georgia with acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2021 /

Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Canadian based funeral and cemetery operator announced in this press release yesterday that they had entered the state of Georgia with an agreement to purchase the Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory located in Cumming, Forsythe County.  The press release stated that the acquisition is scheduled to close in December of…

SCI CEO Tom Ryan on Covid deaths, preneed, and acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / November 10, 2021 /

Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest provider of funeral services in North America, recently released their 3rd Quarter 2021 results and following that company executives answered questions from stock analysts about the company and death care in general.  You can read a complete transcript of that commentary here. If you are not interested in reading…

Park Lawn Corporation announces three acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / October 19, 2021 /

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…

Foundation Partners Group fuels growth through cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2021 /

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%. …

Johnson Consulting’s Jake Johnson on the acquisition market

By Funeral Director Daily / August 24, 2021 /

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:…

Foundation Partners enters Las Vegas market

By Funeral Director Daily / August 10, 2021 /

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…

Foundation Partners Group adds Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory

By Funeral Director Daily / July 14, 2021 /

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…