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There is a lot to be digested when you look at Park Lawn Corporation’s (PLC) 2nd Quarter Earnings Release and their Earnings Call transcript which were made public last week. Much like the quarterly reports from SCI and Carriage Services, Park Lawn was able to increase revenues, but like their counterparts, it…
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Today I want to use the Afternoon Edition to simply say “Thank You” to our readers and our sponsors. I’m a one-man band at Funeral Director Daily and when I started blogging I never knew what kind of reception that I would have. After an almost 35-year career as a funeral home…
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Most of the news out of the South Pacific dealing with Death Care has been about the prolonged potential takeover of Australia’s largest funeral and cremation provider, InvoCare, by the United States based private equity firm TPG Global. However, while that potential marriage is still under consideration, Propel Funeral Partners, the 2nd…
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It’s always surprising to me how fast the middle of the month rolls around and we shout out the stories that have been “Top-Read” on Funeral Director Daily for that past 30-day period. Today we once again bring those out and offer a few other tidbits that we picked up in the…
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It’s estimated that about 85% of North America’s funeral businesses are still family owned. However, that number seems to be headed downward as the large national and regional consolidators seemingly accelerate their purchases of these family funeral homes when they come to market. I think that increased rate of consolidation is…
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One of Funeral Director Daily’s sponsors, the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), will again be helping to host the Peer Support Network online meeting tomorrow night, July 18, at 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central time. Here’s what CANA says about this month’s meeting in a recent press release on…
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If you have been a funeral director for any length of time the odds are that you have served a family of a suicide death at some point. I served several over my years as a funeral director and those times were very difficult and stressful for me. And, I had somewhat…
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I like it when I read about good things happening in the Death Care business. Sometimes, like this story, the good news grows out of bad deeds. . . but, in the end, it’s how our profession can step up and help that makes me feel good about what we do. …
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According to this recent article from Yahoo Finance, businesses, including funeral homes, may find their employee health care costs rising by up to 7% in 2024. And, that is on top of increases of 5.5% in 2022 and 6% this year. According to the article, “. . .hospitals and providers will often…
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This afternoon we are bringing you a great conversation that our friends, Danny Jefferson and Alan Creedy, have at the “Two Guys and a Question” podcast. In this 10-minute podcast Creedy and Jefferson take on the question, “Embalming: Is it still relevant?” Turns out they think so. . . . listen…
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