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Dignity plc accepts buy-out offer

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2023 /

According to this article from Yahoo, Great Britain’s largest public death care company, Dignity plc, has accepted a buyout offer from a consortium that includes its largest shareholder group and one of the country’s wealthiest and well-known entrepreneurs. The shareholder group is Phoenix Asset Management Partners (PAMP) which, in another interesting twist, is managed…

British funeral/cremation provider Dignity plc in takeover talks with private parties

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2023 /

Reuters reported last week that Dignity plc, Great Britain’s largest provider of death care services “(was) in advanced talks with a consortium compris(ed) of investment firms SPWOne V Ltd. and Castelnau Group Ltd. after it received unsolicited buyout proposals from the consortium in October and November last year.” The talks centered on the…

Dignity, PLC Engages Consultant

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2018 /

Dignity, PLC, the United Kingdom’s death care conglomerate announced on March 14 that they would be hiring L.E.K. Consulting to work them them in developing a plan for the funeral business going forward. This comes following their January 19 announcement that the company would be drastically reducing their funeral service prices to consumers in response…

Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 11, 2017 /

It’s Monday morning again and as usual we have been busy seeing what happened in the death care industry news over the weekend. Today we have four articles that we think are very interesting ranging from stolen human remains to a deadline coming up for a California Senate vote on legalizing alkaline hydrolysis to what…