funeral home finance

Can your funeral home afford to increase prices amid rising costs?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 17, 2025 /

    I operated my funeral home from 1980 to 2013 and in that time period we increased prices every year.  I always looked for an average of about 3% but was able to increase my cremation prices more than that as cremation was growing in popularity.  And, it seemed that our price increases also…

Top read articles for the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily

By Funeral Director Daily / October 18, 2022 /

It’s hard to believe that another 30-day period has passed and has become our custom, we recap our Top 5 read articles over the past 30 days.  So, if you are a new subscriber or if you missed a couple of articles, or if you just want to read them a 2nd time, here are…

Carriage Services closes Senior Notes Offering

By Funeral Director Daily / June 5, 2018 /

  Carriage Services, a publicly owned death care provider that according to its web-site owns and operates 178 funeral homes in 29 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states, announced last week that they have closed a Senior Notes Offering and entered into a new Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility.  You can read the company’s…

Some History and Investment Perspective on Service Corporation International

By Funeral Director Daily / September 15, 2017 /

I’m a buy and hold investor and enjoy learning about companies that over time will bring a nice positive return to my portfolio. I also like to learn as much as I can about companies and those in the death care industry give me added perspective — I always try to learn what they are…