funeral home purchases

Park Lawn Corp adds to Colorado holdings through acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / February 22, 2024 /

    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…

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Park Lawn adds Toronto funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / June 16, 2023 /

      Earlier this week Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of he assets of Ward Funeral Home Limited.  Ward Funeral Home Limited operates three stand-alone funeral homes in the Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada area.   Here’s what Park Lawn Corporation CEO J. Bradley…

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Carriage Services keeps the acquisition train rolling along

By Funeral Director Daily / March 28, 2023 /

    Last week I had not even finished putting up Friday’s article which dealt with an acquisition when I was notified of another public company acquisition.  This time the announcement came from Carriage Services and announced its acquisition of a group of three funeral homes, two cemeteries, and a cremation center based in the…

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Here’s a look from one perspective on the mergers and acquisitions market for 2023

By Funeral Director Daily / December 22, 2022 /

  Editor’s Note:  In keeping with Funeral Director Daily’s recent trend at year-end we are bringing you more information on what to look for as we move into 2023.  The following is from (with permission) the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) website and is an interview with FPG’s Zach Mayer, the head of the company’s Nationwide…

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Carriage Services acquisitions, hiring. . and other news

By Funeral Director Daily / December 10, 2019 /

Last week public funeral home operating company Carriage Services was really in the news.  They not only announced the acquisitions of the Fairfax Memorial Park and Funeral Home in the Washington, DC area, but they announced the purchase from StoneMor Partners of the funeral home/cemetery combination facility Oakmont Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery in Northern…

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Interest Rates and the Seller’s Reality

By Funeral Director Daily / December 19, 2018 /

If 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…

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News from Foundation Partners Group

By Funeral Director Daily / April 9, 2018 /

I noticed a press release come out from Foundation Partners Group last week that announced the private funeral, cemetery and cremation operating company had made a purchase of the Healey Mortuary and Crematory in Salinas, California.  Checking more into that press release on the company’s web-site I came across two other stories about Foundation Partners…

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Newcomer Funeral Service Group purchases Dayton Property

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2018 /

A sale was recorded last Monday in the Dayton, Ohio area pertaining to the purchase of land at 820 Miamisburg-Centerville Road according to property records reported by the Dayton Daily News.  The property, with seven acres of land, was owned by Schlientz-Moore Funeral Home and purchased by Warren Family Funeral Homes, Inc. According to the…

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