prepaid funerals

Last wills, charitable giving, and preneed

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2024 /

      Central Co-op of Great Britain is an interesting company.  They are a company with a history of over 100 years and operate in the grocery, legal services, floral, and funeral business.  According to this Wikipedia page, the company operates over 1,000 funeral homes and is now the largest provider of Death Care…

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Carriage Services: Strategies driving improvements

By Funeral Director Daily / August 15, 2024 /

  I’m one that believes you can learn something from seeing what the public companies in funeral service are doing.  When I was active with my funeral home in the business I would read their quarterly reports and look at whatever comments were made during the companies quarterly earnings call transcripts. . . . .Even…

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It’s July 29. . . Will Park Lawn Corporation be going private? What does that mean for Homesteaders Life?

By Funeral Director Daily / July 29, 2024 /

    It suprised many in the Death Care community when this press release came out late on Monday, June 3, announcing that a new company, made up of preneed provider Homesteaders Life and private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners, would be seeking to acquire publicly-operated funeral home and cemetery business Park Lawn Corporation.…

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Moving preneed thoughts to the consumer mind

By Funeral Director Daily / July 23, 2024 /

    I think it is a pretty well established fact that if a funeral home can get families to talk about what they want to have done at their eventual death the funeral home has a much better chance to pre-arrange that family into some type of financial arrangements to be used at the…

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Global Atlantic, SCI form preneed partnership

By Funeral Director Daily / July 9, 2024 /

    It was announced in this press release yesterday from Global Atlantic Financial Group (Global Atlantic) that the company had formed a partnership with the largest provider of funeral, cemetery, and cremation services in North America, Service Corporation International (SCI).   Announced in the press release as a “10-year partnership, Global Atlantic says it…

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Take Ring Ring Marketing for a Test Drive

By Funeral Director Daily / April 24, 2024 /

    When it comes to technology I am a confessed “Novice”.  And personally, with Social Media I am pretty quiet too. . . . or maybe my life is dull enough that none of it deserves to be shouted from the rooftops on all the “sharing’ sites.   However, from having Funeral Director Daily…

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Will Prelude be the product?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 8, 2024 /

      I’m always searching the web for things that might be tied in to the funeral/cremation or greater Death Care business world.  Just the other day I came across a website for a company in the preneed arena which has a home page that states, “The Promise of Preneed“.   The company is…

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“Preneed” or “Funeral Contribution Funds”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 4, 2024 /

    There is an old saying that goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink”.  I think that the meaning of that phrase, in human terms is something like this, “You can tell a person the situation, but you cannot make them act on it”.   In my…

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Homesteaders offers Preneed Motivators Report

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2024 /

    According to a recent e-mail that I received, the Homesteaders “Preneed Motivators Report” is available to be downloaded free of charge.  This report is the 7th edition of data gathered from Homesteaders policyholders and will give you key information on what motivates consumers to purchase preneed funeral and cremation policies.   According to…

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Preneed Update: Wellabe goes to Michigan, Homesteaders raises growth rates, FDLIC podcast reflects on lessons learned

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2024 /

It was only a couple of short months ago that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a new bill into law which allowed for less regulation in the preneed insurance business in that state.  Proponents had argued that unless there was more freedom in how preneed companies controlled their growth rates more and more companies would…

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