Funeral Director Daily

StoneMor announces 1Q Results. . .Sales decline, losses widen

By Funeral Director Daily / May 14, 2019 /

StoneMor Partners, the Pennsylvania operator of funeral homes and cemeteries announced First Quarter 2019 results last week. The company, which is in what CEO Joe Redling says is an “operational reorganization” continues to see revenues lower and losses larger than the comparable quarter one year ago. For 1Q 2019 revenues amounted to $71.5 million as…

Will Tulip Cremation make a difference

By Funeral Director Daily / May 9, 2019 /

I mentioned earlier this week that I spent last week in Las Vegas with about 150 people in our profession. Lots of items get bantered about at this event and one that was visited about quite frequently last week was the opening of Tulip Cremations. While I have only anecdotal knowledge of Tulip Cremation, I…

Who drives the choices?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 7, 2019 /

I spent three days last week in Las Vegas with about 150 other people from the death care profession. The group is a wide mix of people, with all of us having the death care industry in common. Some are small funeral home owner/operators like me, some are CEOs of the largest public death care…

Facebook group challenges StoneMor on cemetery operations

By Funeral Director Daily / April 24, 2019 /

A television news report and story from WSET out of Lynchburg, West Virginia, can be seen here and tells of a Facebook group that has garnered more than 600 followers that says that there is a problem with the way StoneMor Partners operates their cemeteries. Melissa Cash, whose father is buried at the Fort Hill…

Community Heroes all around funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / February 26, 2019 /

While I was researching for articles for today’s post it just hit me as I looked at the articles and I realized that just about everyday some funeral director is written up in their local newspaper because what they have meant to their community. Most of us are happy to be in the background just…

Singapore sites Four new funeral parlours

By Funeral Director Daily / January 16, 2019 /

Funeral customs around the world are interesting to observe. But, just as the customs are interesting to observe so are the challenges of those in funeral service for profit in the differing countries with differing values in funeral service. I recently read an article in Channel News Asia that you can read here. Land is…

InvoCare moves forward despite headwinds Down Under

By Funeral Director Daily / August 21, 2018 /

Australian funeral service market share leader, InvoCare, is moving forward with capital expenses aimed at becoming more appealing to Baby Boomers in spite of several headwinds on funeral service down under. You can read an article from Australian Financial Review on the slowing of InvoCare’s business here. In the article InvoCare CEO, Martin Earp, mentions…

South Koreans Preferring Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / March 20, 2018 /

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare recently released a report that indicates that since the 1990’s South Koreans have been preferring cremation at a very high percentage. An article published in the Straits Times that you can read here indicates that over 80% of South Koreans now choose cremation. The article points…