funeral homes

Don’t be Narrow Minded. . . Open up your leadership style

By Funeral Director Daily / March 31, 2023 /

    The other day as I was reading some information on the current stock market I saw this quote, “Narrowing leadership is rarely a good thing for market health”.  The quote pertained to the current tech company stock market and pointed out that leadership, as referenced by value gains, in that segment had narrowed…

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InvoCare rejects takeover bid. . . . Dignity plc company credit downgraded

By Funeral Director Daily / March 30, 2023 /

    This article from Business News Australia, that came out on Monday, March 27, indicates that Australia’s largest provider of death care services, InvoCare has rejected a non-solicited offer of  $Aus 1.8 billion (United States $1.2 billion) from American private equity player TPG Global made earlier this month.   According to the article, TPG…

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The Funeral Director “facilitator”. . . . . .with less financial reward

By Funeral Director Daily / March 29, 2023 /

    Not so many years ago the role of the funeral director or mortician in a community was to prepare the deceased for burial and coordinate all services between the family that was requesting services and the church body that was delivering those services. . . .which most of the time consisted of a…

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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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Funeral directors and their wardrobe

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2023 /

    Have you noticed in the March Madness basketball games how every male coach is wearing a logo quarter-zip pullover, casual trousers, and athletic style shoes?  The days of college basketball coaches wearing a suit and tie seem to be over. . . . no longer will we get to see an irate coach…

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Funeral Directors can be the “Local Connector”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 23, 2023 /

    I’ve thought about this many times over the years, but the older I get the more I believe it is true.  That is that there is probably no one in your local community that knows the community better than the local funeral director.   It hit me yesterday as I was at the…

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Mapping Your Customer Journey: A Visual Tool for Deathcare Marketing

By Funeral Director Daily / March 22, 2023 /

    Editor’s Note:  Today Welton Hong, CEO and founder of RingRing Marketing takes over the pen and gives us some valuable advice on Deathcare marketing.  His article begins right here:   When was the last time you studied a map, planning out your route for a vacation or a trip to the ICCFA Convention?…

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News on the InvoCare / TPG Capital potential takeover

By Funeral Director Daily / March 20, 2023 /

    As of Friday, March 17 we scoured our sources for any news on if the takeover of leading Australian death care provider InvoCare by United States based private equity firm TPG Capital was moving forward.  It’s hard to say what is happening as it appears to look more and more like a “hostile”…

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Banking and Death Care

By Funeral Director Daily / March 20, 2023 /

    The last ten days or so most of America, and the rest of the civilized world, has wondered about the safety of the banking industry.  As this is being written on Friday, March 17, we’ve already seen American banks Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank closed by regulators and have seen some…

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Robert Waltrip, Acquisitions, and Excess Deaths make up the Top Stories of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / March 17, 2023 /

    It seems amazing to me how fast 30 days seems to go.  Once again we offer up our Top Read stories from Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. . . Here they are. . . Enjoy the weekend. . .   In Memoriam:  Robert Waltrip, SCI Founder. InvoCare receives over US…

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