National Funeral Directors Association
We recently came across a couple of brief articles pertaining to existing funeral homes making additions to their operation in order to add new revenue. The first of these articles is from the Hastings (Minnesota) Star Gazette and you can find it here. It pertains to the Ellis Funeral Home of Hastings breaking ground for…
Read MoreI was driving into a board meeting on Monday and listening to one of the business channels on Sirius Radio. The topic that came up and was being discussed was the potential acquisition of Fox by either Disney or Comcast. As you may know, Fox was given an acquisition offer by Disney last December at…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that staffing at funeral homes across North America is an issue and up for much debate on how it is done. I recently ran into an article from Great Britain that was published in Wales Online, and which you can read here. The article is very interesting and concerns the company…
Read MoreOver the weekend I read a couple of articles on different subjects that brought me to the question, “Can a funeral/memorial celebrant on staff increase revenues?” You might be wondering how I got to that question or even why I might ask it. Let me explain. I first came across an article on church attendance…
Read MoreCarriage Services, a publicly owned death care provider that according to its web-site owns and operates 178 funeral homes in 29 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states, announced last week that they have closed a Senior Notes Offering and entered into a new Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. You can read the company’s…
Read MoreYou can read a recent article from the Miami Sun Sentinel here that catches up with former Montreal Expo, Chicago Cub, Boston Red Sox, and Miami Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson. The article explains that when the new ownership group of the Marlins, which includes Derek Jeter, took over the Marlins they jettisoned Dawson from the…
Read MoreAt the close of business Monday, May 7, Park Lawn Corporation announced that it had completed its announced purchase of Signature Funeral and Cemetery Investments, LLC (the Signature Group) for approximately US$123 million. You can read the press release from Stockhouse here. According to Park Lawn CEO Andrew Clark, “With the acquisition of Signature Group,…
Read MoreI noticed a press release come out from Foundation Partners Group last week that announced the private funeral, cemetery and cremation operating company had made a purchase of the Healey Mortuary and Crematory in Salinas, California. Checking more into that press release on the company’s web-site I came across two other stories about Foundation Partners…
Read MoreIn a major metropolitan city I’m guessing that funeral directors don’t get called to accident scenes very often to clear the scene. By “clearing the scene” I mean removing deceased victims from the scene so that eventually the roadway or other location can get back to normal. In major cities they have “coroner” personal to…
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