funerals
We received a couple of articles out of Springfield, Illinois, today concerning a southern Illinois funeral director who has been sentenced to prison for his role in failing to deposit payments for preneed funeral services. You can read about the case in these articles from WGN Web and from KFVS 12. According to the articles,…
Read MoreCarriage Services, the Houston based funeral home and cemetery operator made a big announcement after business hours on Monday. The company issued a press release which highlighted not only the acquisition of, what they say in the release is the largest by a combined revenue definition, acquisition in their 28-year history, but also announced personnel…
Read MoreAustralia’s largest purveyor of death care services, InvoCare, has been accused by some of irregularities in the way that it handles its invoicing. According to this article from Choice.com, InvoCare routinely includes a $320, plus taxes, “administration fee” on invoices. Again, according to the Choice.com article, the administration fee functions somewhat as a “late…
Read MoreAs we go into the weekend we just thought we would update our readers with some new construction going on in the death care business. The following articles pertain to individual or family owned businesses either being started or being expanded. As we have seen many times with the ideas of proposed crematories — there…
Read MoreRecompose, 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 MoreMonday morning I received a call from a lady I know who works tirelessly with the community’s Junior Achievement organization. She mentioned that they were looking for some new board members and she wondered if I would be interested in serving. My first thought was, “I don’t need more board positions”. I’ve served on a…
Read MoreThere are a lot of reasons that businesses, including funeral homes, change operational and ownership hands. Sometimes a single proprietor gets a price that he just can’t turn down. Sometimes a single proprietor just wants to retire and either has no family to go into the business or family that wants to pursue other goals…
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