Park Lawn Corporation
In a press release out of Park Lawn Corporation headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, today, the company announced that it had acquired the assets of two-location funeral business John L. Ziegenhein & Sons Undertaking, Inc. According to the press release that you can read here, the Ziegenhein Funeral Homes were acquired for a purchase price of…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: I am out of the office this week. Because of that FDD will not be publishing an article on Tuesday or Thursday. I hope you enjoy the articles for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have scheduled. # # …
Read MoreToronto based funeral industry company Park Lawn Corporation released a press release that you can read here about its 2018 year end performance earlier this week. As you may know Park Lawn Corporation has grown greatly this year by acquisitions including The Signature Group, CMS Mid-Atlantic, and Citadel Management in the United States as well…
Read MorePark Lawn Corporation, the Toronto based cemetery and funeral home consolidator announced last week that they had reached an agreement to purchase Madison, Wisconsin based Cress Funeral Service for US$ 20.3 million. You can read a press release from Park Lawn here. Park Lawn, in their press release, makes these statements: The price to be…
Read MoreAfter Friday’s market close I thought it might be a good time to check up with what has happened in the Death Care industry since the beginning of the year. As you know the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) is made up of the value of one share of stock for eight…
Read MorePark Lawn Corporation, the Canadian funeral home and cemetery acquisition firm, released its results for their 3rd Quarter of 2018 earlier this week. You can see their Press Release here. The fast-growing death care public company announced that their revenues increased on a year over year basis for the quarter by 92.9%. They reported revenue…
Read MoreLast week public market funeral home and cemetery operators Park Lawn Corporation and Carriage Services made announcements about their dividends to stockholders going forward. In an article that you can read here Park Lawn Corporation announced that they will be paying a monthly dividend in November of $C 0.038 per share – which on an…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily has established the DCI or Death Care Index for eight publicly traded companies that operate in the death care industry. The companies, all headquartered in North America, operate in the financial (preneed) sector, the manufacturing (caskets and monuments) sector, or the retail (funeral home and cemetery) sector. The companies include Security National…
Read MoreToday’s earlier post was on the Park Lawn Corporation acquiring a funeral home in North Carolina. It sometimes amazes me that these acquisitions seem to happen in bunches and today we received an announcement out of Toronto that goes to that point. I woke up this morning to find a press release that you can…
Read MoreAccording to this article from the Haywood County Mountaineer, the Wells Funeral Homes and Cremation Services of Canton and Waynesville, North Carolina, have been acquired by Park Lawn Corporation. The article states that Wells Greeley, President and owner of the funeral business, has announced a succession plan that includes partnering with Toronto based Park Lawn…
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