funeral home acquisitions
Every once in a while we like to just bring our readers news from around the world of Death Care. And, today, our news around the world of death care is truly from around the world. The following articles bring news from three continents — from North America we bring you news of funeral home…
Read MoreThe state of Colorado has been a hotbed of funeral home and crematory acquisitions in the last couple of years. Many of the larger players in the death care space, Service Corporation International, Park Lawn Corporation, and Foundation Partners Group, have all made acquisitions in the state during that time frame. It was announced on…
Read MoreIt will come as no secret to anybody that Canadian funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation increased their revenue in the First Quarter of 2019 over that of the same period in 2018. Due to the number, size, and scope of their acquisition activity it was not a matter of increasing revenue, it…
Read MoreStoneMor Partners, the Pennsylvania operator of funeral homes and cemeteries announced First Quarter 2019 results last week. The company, which is in what CEO Joe Redling says is an “operational reorganization” continues to see revenues lower and losses larger than the comparable quarter one year ago. For 1Q 2019 revenues amounted to $71.5 million as…
Read MoreToronto based funeral and cemetery services provider Park Lawn Corporation announced last week that they have entered into agreements to acquire the assets of Horan & McConaty Funeral Services and the assets of the Baue Funeral Home Company. The press release and more information that you can read from Yahoo Finance here, indicate that the…
Read MoreCarriage Services is a funeral home and cemetery acquisition company that, according to Reuters, operated 181 funeral homes in 29 states and operated 32 cemeteries in 11 states as of August 28,2018. According to their own history from their web-site they were founded in 1991 and had their initial public offering (IPO) to become a…
Read MoreA really nice article about Leo and Jeff Marshall, the father/son team that has owned and operated the Marshall Funeral Home in Greenville, Michigan since 1967 was published in the Daily News of Montcalm and Ionia Counties of Michigan the other day. You can read the article here. It is a really fine article that…
Read MoreIf everything goes as expected today, most people are looking for a 0.25% rise in the Federal Funds interest rate as set by the Federal Reserve Board. There has been a lot of talk that the rate, which if raised today for a 4th time this year, has had something to do with the volatility…
Read MoreThe second and third largest funeral home firms in Spain are considering a merger according to this article from Reuters. Santa Lucia’s subsidiary Albia and Mapfres’ subsidiary Funespana are the number two and three in funeral services in the country and are contemplating teaming up to become a company that would do about $229 million…
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