Park Lawn Corporation

Park Lawn rings in the new year with acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2020 /

Toronto based funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) announced in a press release on January 2, 2020, that they had acquired two businesses under common control in Tennessee.  In this release PLC announced that they had purchased the stock and membership interests of Family Legacy, LLC and WG-TN, LLC (Harpeth Hills Funeral…

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It’s about demographics

By Funeral Director Daily / December 11, 2019 /

In the last couple of years it seems that we have seen no slow down in the marketplace for the acquisition of large family owned metropolitan death care businesses by the public company, venture backed, or equity partner backed large scale operators in the business.  You need think no farther back then last weeks announcement…

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Carriage makes big acquisition, announces new President/COO

By Funeral Director Daily / December 4, 2019 /

Carriage Services, the Houston based funeral home and cemetery operator made a big announcement after business hours on Monday.  The company issued a press release which highlighted not only the acquisition of, what they say in the release is the largest by a combined revenue definition, acquisition in their 28-year history, but also announced personnel…

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Park Lawn executives comment on 3rd Quarter

By Funeral Director Daily / November 22, 2019 /

Last week Park Lawn Corporation CEO Andrew Clark and CFO James Leeder commented on the company’s 3rd quarter results and also took questions from analysts about the company’s performance.  You can read the transcript here.  I have, however, taken the liberty to pull out some of the comments that we thought would be of the…

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Corporate News

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2019 /

This afternoon we will bring you a couple of items that recently appeared in print publications about public companies in the death care business. From the Philadelphia Business Journal we bring you this article on StoneMor Partners.  It is entitled, “StoneMor slims down executive ranks, plans divestitures for bid for profitability”.  We believe it is a…

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Park Lawn Corporation reports 3Q 2019

By Funeral Director Daily / November 18, 2019 /

Last week Canadian based public company funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation released its 3rd Quarter and 9-month results for 2019.  You can see them here. The fast growing company reported 2019 3Q revenues of $66.5 million as compared to 2018 3rd Quarter revenues of $43.2 million. . .an increase of 54%.  They…

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Acquisitions keep on rolling around the world

By Funeral Director Daily / November 15, 2019 /

There are a lot of reasons that businesses, including funeral homes, change operational and ownership hands.  Sometimes a single proprietor gets a price that he just can’t turn down.  Sometimes a single proprietor just wants to retire and either has no family to go into the business or family that wants to pursue other goals…

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Death Care investments have been good in 2019

By Funeral Director Daily / October 28, 2019 /

Funeral Director Daily tracks its proprietary Death Care Index or DCI periodically.  The DCI is a group of eight publicly traded company stocks that each have some skin in the death care industry or profession.  They range from companies involved in death care services to companies who manufacture things like crematories, to companies involved in…

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Foundation Partners adds another Colorado location

By Funeral Director Daily / August 28, 2019 /

The state of Colorado has been a hotbed of funeral home and crematory acquisitions in the last couple of years.  Many of  the larger players in the death care space, Service Corporation International, Park Lawn Corporation, and Foundation Partners Group, have all made acquisitions in the state during that time frame. It was announced on…

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Public company notes. . .StoneMor, Park Lawn

By Funeral Director Daily / August 14, 2019 /

We noticed a couple of articles in the news or opinion sections today about death care public companies StoneMor Partners and Park Lawn Corporation and just thought we would pass them on. StoneMor Partners to eliminate 340 positions.  This article points out that StoneMor Partners will be targeting 340 positions as it attempts to eliminate…

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