funerals
StoneMor Partners L.P. reported their 3rd Quarter and 9-month 2019 numbers last week and with it showed significant progress in their attempt at a transformational turnaround of the company. In brief, StoneMor reported that revenues are stabilizing, that they are cutting recurring expenses, and that they have made progress on a divestiture process that will,…
Read MoreAcquisitions continue to be announced in the death care business. It seems that there are a lot of businesses where the ownership is ready to transition out of the profession and there is an ever growing number of neighbor, regional, and national providers of funeral and cremation care that are intent on getting larger. In…
Read MoreLast week we provided a link to where you could go to read the 3rd Quarter report on Service Corporation International. We will provide that link again here. Here’s what SCI President and CEO, Tom Ryan, commented on in that report. “. . .This solid funeral performance driven by an increase in funeral services performed…
Read MoreMany of the nicest people I know work in the funeral profession. And, an interesting thing about some of those people is listening to the stories of how they got into the profession. I’ve talked to people who were medics in the army, drove ambulance, or worked as nurses who all saw the the compassion…
Read MoreThe article begins, “Cremation and ground burial both have carbon footprints that have some people looking for other options for the afterlife.” That sentence pulled me in but what I went on to watch and read in this video and news story from Chemical & Engineering News pertaining to the “new” death care economy that…
Read MoreWe recently learned thru a press release, that you can read here, of a Toronto based company, UrbanRIP, that has created a new urn called the Candlestick Egg Urn. From our point of view, it is an urn designed to fit in a home decor where it will have meaning and accessibility for the family…
Read MoreFor the 30+ years that I operated our family owned funeral home I had to deal with a maximum of about 17 employees or teammates at work at any given time. You got to know all of them real well and as the manager of a small firm you really understood what was happening under…
Read MoreI happened to drive by the Douglas County Fairgrounds earlier this week and notice that the fair was already upon us. That signaled to me that the end of summer was not too far off and gave me an idea for writing a post about the fall season being a great time to capitalize on…
Read MoreI wrote a story yesterday on the timing of advertising telling consumers about the benefits of pre-planning one’s own funeral or cremation services. When I did that article I did not envision a follow-up or series of pre-need articles, but a day later here is another angle I have thought about often concerning pre-need and…
Read MorePark Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Toronto based consolidator and operator of funeral homes and cemeteries reported their financial results for the 2nd Quarter of 2019, the period that ended June 30, 2019, yesterday. You can see a short synopsis of the results in this press release. Park Lawn’s CEO Andrew Clark is quoted in the…
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