funeral supplies

Matthews reports 1Q 2024 — Sales flat, EBITDA and Profit declines

By Funeral Director Daily / February 5, 2024 /

    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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Titan Casket names “Brand Ambassador”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 19, 2023 /

  Titan Casket isn’t your normal funeral supply company.  They are a little edgy and they take their case directly to the consumer, although they have a program for funeral homes to partner with them, too.  They aren’t afraid of stepping on a few historical funeral toes.   In one way, however, they are not…

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Messenger acquires Bass-Mollett Publishers

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2022 /

We expected 2022 to be a year of mergers and acquisitions in the funeral home business.  However, we are also quickly learning that the marriages of companies will not be confined to those in the funeral home business, but in death care suppliers as well.  Last month we reported on Wilbert’s acquisition of Memorial Monument…

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Do we have the supplies to continue moving forward

By Funeral Director Daily / February 3, 2021 /

Funeral homes and those that supply funeral homes have met virtually every need necessary to serve those in need this past year while we have been under the COVID-19 pandemic situation.  When we realized that this pandemic was upon us the situation for most of us was about masks, gloves, body bags, and in most…

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Funeral Director / Entrepreneur wins competition with funeral product

By Funeral Director Daily / December 12, 2019 /

David Murphy is not only a funeral director but he is well on his way to becoming the owner of a successful manufacturing business.  Murphy, a funeral director at the Newark, New York, family firm, Paul L. Murphy & Son Funeral Home recently was awarded $40,000 as the First Place recipient of the Wayne County…

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