funeral homes

Carriage Services reports 2020 year. . . shows the trends

By Funeral Director Daily / February 23, 2021 /

In a press release that you can read here you can find out that Houston, Texas, based funeral home and cemetery consolidator Carriage Services recorded record results not only for the 4th Quarter of 2020 but for the full year of 2020 as well.  Not only did Carriage Services record these record financial results, they…

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Service Corporation services jump 14% in 2020

By Funeral Director Daily / February 22, 2021 /

Service Corporation International reported both their 4th Quarter 2020 and Full Year 2020 reports last week.  Among the interesting items that you can find in the report, that can be accessed here, is that their total number of services increased from 319,616 in 2019 to 364,312 in 2020. . . .that’s an increase of 13.98%.…

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Taking a stand and doing the right thing. . . InvoCare and domestic violence

By Funeral Director Daily / February 19, 2021 /

Sometimes it is difficult to take a public stand on an issue.  You might feel strong one way or another, but you know that taking a public stance could possibly hinder the amount of business that you do.  It is pretty evident in America right now that if you flew a Trump 2020 flag in…

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Changing the Paradigm

By Funeral Director Daily / February 18, 2021 /

Last week Foundation Partners Group issued a press release through Cision PR Newswire that you can read here.  The release dealt with some of the company’s ten year history in that it has grown into a company with nearly 160 locations serving over 75,000 families annually. Another thing that the release shouted was that Foundation…

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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: “Funeral expenses haunted and followed my family . . . for years”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 17, 2021 /

A couple of weeks ago we brought our readers this article where Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were hopeful that the COVID-19 relief bill passed in December would bring funeral re-imbursements to many who lost loved ones to the pandemic. At that time they were hopeful that some of…

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Netflix premiers “Buried by the Bernards”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 16, 2021 /

A television show about the goings on in a funeral home is nothing new.  I can remember the shows “Family Plot” and “Six Feet Under”.  Last Friday night, Netflix premiered the newest franchise in funeral television when they aired the first episode of “Buried by the Bernards“.  This article and video shows the family having…

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The Funeral Director to Presidents

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2021 /

Today we celebrate President’s Day 2021 in the United States.  We’ve just been through an election. . .and an impeachment hearing.  There is no doubt that the American president, whomever it is at the time, is the centerpiece of the most media attention of any  human being on the planet during his time in office.…

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Mark Cuban: “. . .the grief industry is very much old school”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 10, 2021 /

Back in October 2019 on an episode the television production of Shark Tank, serial investor and billionaire Mark Cuban became invested in a death care company.  It was at that time that Cuban invested $600,000 for a 9% share of the “cremation carbon to diamond” company Eterneva.  That $600,000 investment gave the company a valuation…

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Going to extremes to lower overhead

By Funeral Director Daily / February 9, 2021 /

Operating a funeral home and/or crematory operation as a business is an expensive proposition to start when you think of the fixed costs that it will take.  It’s not like starting a lawn care service where you need some basic equipment and wait for the phone to ring to put it to use.  In the…

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Manufacturing shortages/delays. . . social distance funeral home fines

By Funeral Director Daily / February 8, 2021 /

Over the weekend we came across a couple of articles that related to articles that we produced for our readers last week and just thought that we would link related articles for our readers in case they are interested in looking more into the situations. On pandemic manufacturing shortages and/or delays due to processes outside…

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