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Recompose, the private company that has been established to become the first company to use “human composting” as a method of final disposition is continuing to move ahead with their plans. There is a very good article that we found in the Seattle Times, that you can read here, that makes note of the fact…
Read MoreI received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 — in a class of about 40 males and one female. That is just the way it was. . .there were no young women going into the business at that time. Today, the mortuary science classes at my alma mater are about 70%…
Read MoreYou have seen me write many times that I look for trends in the business world and then try to stay ahead of those to be in on the upswing with what is happening and have the ability to capture new business before many competitors have even seen the trend emerging. It’s that way not…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily tracks its proprietary Death Care Index or DCI periodically. The DCI is a group of eight publicly traded company stocks that each have some skin in the death care industry or profession. They range from companies involved in death care services to companies who manufacture things like crematories, to companies involved in…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago I wrote a column for Funeral Director Daily entitled, “How will we transform”? The article was based on the fact that Hillenbrand Industries, parent company of Batesville Casket Company, knows that its casket business will not be its bread and butter forever, and is transforming itself over time to a…
Read MoreIn this press release issued by Victoriaville & Co. of Edmunston, New Brunswick, Canada, last week you can read about their acquisition of Alliance St-Laurent Casket, previously a subsidiary of Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions. According to a quote from Steve Gackenbach, Group President of Matthews Memorialization, “This divestiture represents a manufacturing consolidation as part of…
Read MoreAs we move into the Fall season in Minnesota the weather turns a little cooler and I’m forced to do my daily running and exercise routine inside on the treadmill instead of outside on the streets. One of the advantages of this, however, is that I can tune in the television and learn something while…
Read MoreI heard about this process almost a year ago but did not really know enough to write on the subject until I came across this article from The Telegraph, a publication of Hearst Media. The process that I refer to is that of tattoo removal from a deceased body. As it turns out there are…
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