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55% of Americans expect to search for a new job in the next 12 months. That’s the headline from this Bankrate survey conducted recently. I find it interesting as to how the unemployment and employment situations in America has been since the pandemic. The linked article mentions that labor shortages, in general, have been heating…
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Seeking Alpha recently penned an article about death care public company Carriage Services entitled, “An Under Appreciated Performer in the Death Care Industry”. You can access that article here. Here’s a few quotes from the article: Carriage Services operates in the attractive death care industry, operating 171 funeral homes and 32 cemeteries in the United…
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Do you ever read obituaries of strangers? I do and I’ve learned a lot from them. You might find this strange, but I’ve learned many life lessons from reading obituaries of strangers. One thing I know is that I’ve learned to be a better father. For the past several years I’ve picked out a couple…
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Every once in a while I will come across a survey on some aspect of the death care world that doesn’t quite jive with what I’ve been led to believe. Normally when that happens I’ll find out the survey was constructed and completed by some one from outside the traditional death care world. When that…
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Online memorials seem to be one of the likeliest winners among potential start-ups in the Death Care space. . . . at least that is what it is looking like from the investment community. According to articles that we link below it appears that over the summer months the Australian based Memories has raised over…
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Acquisitions: what 2021 taught us and what we can forecast Editor’s Note: We’ve seen some movement in the acquisition market so Funeral Director Daily asked one of the experts in the industry, Jake Johnson, to comment on what he has seen so far in 2021 and what may lie ahead. His comments follow: Jake Johnson:…
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Park Lawn Corporation, the Toronto, Ontario based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator announced 2nd Quarter financial results earlier this month. For the company, revenue increased 8.5% to $88.4 million (US $68.9 m) from last year’s 2nd Quarter revenues of $81.5 million (US $63.59 m). Adjusted EBITDA increased for the same time period to…
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If you follow the news you know that employment staffing is difficult all over America right now. The death care profession is certainly no different. If you are looking for staff or you are an individual that wants to know what is available in the death care employment field, you need to give Global Recruiters…
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It is already past the 15th of the month when we highlight and replay for you our top read stories of the past 30 days. While we hope you read all of Funeral Director Daily’s blog posts we also realize you are busy and certainly will miss some days. Here are our most read posts…
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StoneMor, Inc. the Pennsylvania based operator of cemeteries and funeral homes last week announced a partnership with end-of-life technology support start-up Empathy. Empathy is, as they say, powered by technology and driven by purpose in helping grieving families handle countless tasks following the death of a loved one. The company describes itself as “a service…
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