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I’ve entitled this article “A Funeral Director’s Christmas“. But, I will tell you, I’m not so sure that I would know a funeral director’s Christmas if I saw one. For me, I’ve been licensed 42 years now as a funeral director. So, in a couple of days I’ll be going on my 42nd…
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Our friends at Clifton Larson Allen have sent out a short white paper entitled “2023 Economic Outlook: Ignore the Headlines”. You can access the paper here. The white paper lists three key insights for businesses to consider: Will there be a recession or not? There will be both Tailwind and Headwind economic indicators…
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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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Last week funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator Carriage Services announced the pending acquisition of Greenlawn Funeral Homes and Cemeteries of Bakersfield, California. In the same press release, that you can read here, the company took the time to outline what they call their “High Performance and Credit Profile Restoration Plan” (HPCPRP). …
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The first sentence from this article in The Star says all that needs to be said about what changes an investor group at Matthews International wants to take place, “Activist investor Barington Capital Group has built a stake in Matthews International Corp and argues the company needs to refresh its board, cut costs and…
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Editor’s Note: Today’s article comes from the blog at OneRoom. It comes on the heels of a recent Funeral Director Daily article by Jake Johnson entitled “A funeral home owner’s guide to prepping for 2023″. Here’s OneRoom’s article on “Adapting to Change in 2023“: As our environment continues to experience frequent change, safeguarding…
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Today marks the beginning of the Christmas week. For many of us that means that we will be joyously reunited with family members we don’t get to see very often. However, for almost three million American families it will be the first Christmas with a loved one missing from the celebration. For them, it will…
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As we head into the weekend I’ve got some reading material for you. As is our custom we present you with the Top Five most read articles on Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. It’s interesting to note that this month we have three articles that were originally published in the last…
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I live in flyover country so I don’t pretend to be an expert on the customs and traditions of New York’s funeral and cemetery business. However, I’ve been in the death care business my entire life and never had heard of the business set-up of New York’s Pinelawn Cemetery. I read a recent article…
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I happened to look at the cash sitting in my Money Market account the other day and noticed I was receiving more interest than I had been recently. I took out my calculator and realized that my John Hancock Money Market account was paying me 3% interest. For savers, that’s the upside of the Federal…
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