New Zealand funeral homes

Propel Funeral Partners adds three more locations

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2024 /

    When funeral home, cremation, and cemetery company InvoCare was taken private last year by private equity firm TPG Global it pushed Propel Funeral Partners Limited to be what we believe is the largest publicly-owned death care provider in Australia and New Zealand.  And, Propel Funeral Partners is not standing still as this article…

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Propel Funeral Partners makes acquisition. . . . enters pet business

By Funeral Director Daily / August 9, 2022 /

Propel Funeral Partners, billed as the 2nd largest provider of death care services in Australia and New Zealand  announced last week its acquisition of Community Funerals and Cremations for Pets.  Community Funerals operates from four locations in and around Cairns, Queensland, and was founded in 2008.  Cremations for Pets was founded in 2017. The business…

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International acquisitions – Propel adds Kiwi firms, Ontario firm happy after one year

By Funeral Director Daily / November 16, 2020 /

We learned last week that Propel Funeral Partners that operates out of Australia and New Zealand had purchased the Dils Group which has locations in New Zealand and Australia.  The Dils Group is said to have performed about 800 services last year and brought in revenue of about US $ 4.96 million. You can see…

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What kind of funeral service education do we want?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2020 /

I came across this article from Scoop of New Zealand entitled, “Collaboration to benefit funeral services industry“.  The details of the article go on to tell how different educational institutes in New Zealand are collaborating to develop programs of study for the funeral services industry. For instance, Open Polytechnic “will develop the educational resources, deliver…

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Here’s Some Good News — Mortuary Student enrollment Up. . . In New Zealand

By Funeral Director Daily / September 17, 2018 /

It is no secret that many funeral homes in the United States are searching for additional staff.  It also appears that those institutions that instruct in Mortuary Science are having a hard time attracting students, probably somewhat due to the otherwise booming American economy. In an article and video that you can read and see…

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