funeral homes
Last year the largest death care service provider in Australia and New Zealand, InvoCare, was taken private in a buy-out by private equity company TPG Global. It appears that action has led to the 2nd largest provider of death care services of those nations, Propel Funeral Partners, to rapidly move forward with their…
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It’s Super Bowl Weekend and you are probably going to hear a lot about what is happening in Las Vegas over the course of the next 72 hours. And, you would have had to be hiding under a rock to not know that superstar entertainer Taylor Swift is bringing her “influence” to the big…
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Every funeral director has had that call from a non-profit life donation organization that the recently deceased Mr. Doe will be unable for removal for 24 hours or so while his organs are harvested. Funeral directors are also keenly aware of of those families or individuals who have been in to the funeral…
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Matthews International, the conglomerate company with their largest portion of sales in Death Care, or what they call their Memorialization Segment, reported gross sales for their First Fiscal Quarter (October thru December 2023) of 2024 coming in at $450 million as compared to $449.2 million for the same period one year ago. …
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I’m a baseball fan and if you are a baseball player there is nothing so crowning to one’s career as what is termed as the “Call to The Hall”. That phrase is known in baseball circles as what happens when an incredible talented player, coach, or other baseball executive is notified by the Baseball…
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Over the past couple of years many in the Death Care profession have identified that there has been a labor issue in funeral service. Anecdotally, in my opinion, most of that labor issue has simply been in being “short-staffed” on the licensed funeral director/embalmer realm. There seems to be somewhat of a lull…
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This recent article in Florida’s Business Observer is titled “Funeral home finds success with new life celebration model”. The article goes on to discuss, among other business changes in the death care industry, the Robert Toale & Sons Celebration of Life Center in the Sarasota, Florida, area. The Robert Toale & Sons…
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Collins Dictionary, a British publisher, named “AI” as its “Word of the Year for 2023”. In doing so they added this explanation, “AI, short for artificial intelligence, is a term that describes “the modeling of human mental functions by computer programs.” Using that definition, “the modeling of human mental functions by computer…
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It’s difficult to know exactly this early into 2024 if 2023 was a year in which opioid deaths continued to climb or if the United States is starting to make progress in its fight to limit these number of deaths. However, every funeral director in the country has probably had to deal…
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We’ve said it many times before, “funeral home ownership has historically been local, family-owned, and generational”. And while there are a good many really good regional and national consolidators, many times “keeping it local” can be a defining part of what an owner wishes to do when he or she eventually decides to sell…
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