United Kingdom funerals

Great Britain’s Dignity plc reports 2020 results. . .digital marketing important and growing

By Funeral Director Daily / March 24, 2021 /

Great Britain’s largest purveyor of death care services, Dignity plc, reported their results for 2020 last week in a very comprehensive report.  The results show increased revenues on more death calls, but because of choices made in taking financial impairments on goodwill and trade names it is difficult to get actual year over year comparables.…

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How direct cremation pioneer Pure Cremation has disrupted the UK’s funeral industry

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2020 /

*Re-printed with permission from Pure Cremation. Before 2015 the funeral industry in Great Britain still looked and felt very Victorian. Most ceremonies were still rooted in 200-year old traditions and any deviation from the norm was frowned upon by both funeral directors and mourners. However, this was set to change when veteran undertaker Bryan Powell…

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United Kingdom insurer, DeadHappy, plans move to death care ideas

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2019 /

DeadHappy, the United Kingdoms technical insurance startup that recently received about US $ 5 million in Series A funding, announced in this  article from Techcrunch, that they hope to get more involved in the wishes of their insured, including making sure that your funeral is the way you want it. The company was founded in…

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United Kingdom to regulate funeral plans

By Funeral Director Daily / June 3, 2019 /

In the United Kingdom, sales of pre-need funeral plans has soared nearly 200% in the last dozen years.  Driven by the increasing competition between the largest players in that country’s death care industry, Dignity Plc, and Co-op Funeralcare, the government has determined that it must “crack-down” on high-pressure and misleading tactics in the sale of…

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Dignity PLC continues transformation process

By Funeral Director Daily / November 14, 2018 /

Great Britain’s largest operator of funeral homes, Dignity PLC, who own and operate 540 funeral homes continues to move forward with their transformation process that they announced earlier this year. The public company filed their 3Q 2018 report on Monday and with it we can see some signs of what direction the company is moving. …

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Dignity, PLC Engages Consultant

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2018 /

Dignity, PLC, the United Kingdom’s death care conglomerate announced on March 14 that they would be hiring L.E.K. Consulting to work them them in developing a plan for the funeral business going forward.  This comes following their January 19 announcement that the company would be drastically reducing their funeral service prices to consumers in response…

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