Starmark Adds Three Caskets to Nature’s Way® Product Line All-Wood Construction Products Receive Environmental and Kosher Recognition RICHMOND, INDIANA – Starmark, a part of Vandor Group, Inc., proudly announces the introduction of three new products: the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos caskets. These new Nature’s Way products feature All-Wood Construction […] Read More
Yesterday Funeral Director Daily’s feature article was about Matthews International and its 1st Quarter 2025 Fiscal Year results press release. As we digested that report, which like many public company reports, is big on numbers and sometimes small on the underlying issues and causes, we were informed that […] Read More
The International Trade Association defines tariffs as such: “A tariff or duty (the words are used interchangeably) is a tax levied by governments on the value including freight and insurance of imported products. Different tariffs applied on different products by different countries.” I’m writing this on Saturday […] Read More
Toilet Paper Caskets & Horrific Eulogies | 4M #174 Welcome to the hundred-and-seventy-fourth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #174, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit! The what market? It’s the market research […] Read More
I’ve heard from people over the years that thought Matthews International was “too complicated” of a company. The company that started in 1850 and and produced its first-ever bronze memorial in 1927, according to this article on Matthews history, continued with ever-increasing products for Death Care but also […] Read More
Thacker Caskets Expands with Acquisition of Southern Legacy Casket and New Warehouse in Bowling Green, Kentucky MONROVIA, MD – Thacker Caskets, the leading family-owned funeral supply company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Southern Legacy Casket Company. This strategic acquisition reinforces Thacker’s commitment to delivering exceptional service and products […] Read More
Weird Ways That Cemeteries & Caskets Made News on Election Day As this election season seems to have been one of the oddest in American history, it might not be a surprise that last week, several cemeteries and a former president’s casket shared the news spotlight with pundits and polling […] Read More
Thacker Caskets Introduces “Impressions by Thacker” – Personalization Redefined Monrovia, MD – Thacker Caskets, Inc., the nation’s leading family-owned funeral supply company, is excited to announce the launch of the newest personalization program, Impressions by Thacker. The Impressions program is led by a brand-new innovation in funeral personalization, Thacker’s “Lid […] Read More
Thacker Caskets, Inc. Celebrates 85 Years of Excellence in the Funeral Service Industry Monrovia, MD – Thacker Caskets, Inc. is thrilled to commemorate 85 years of dedicated service in the funeral services and supply industry in 2024. Established in 1939 as a modest casket jobber in the heart of Washington, […] Read More
As I routinely check my inbox it has became apparent that the suppliers to the cremation industry have moved to a belief that “environmentally friendly” or “natural” products will be an ever-increasing choice of American consumers. In the last week I’ve received press releases from casket companies introducing […] Read More
Matthews International, the conglomerate company with their largest portion of sales in Death Care, or what they call their Memorialization Segment, reported gross sales for their First Fiscal Quarter (October thru December 2023) of 2024 coming in at $450 million as compared to $449.2 million for the same […] Read More
Caskets Aren’t Even Safe Today… | FFFW 166 DISCLAIMER: None of the F’s in FFFW stand for “facts.” Enjoy the satire. The next time we meet it’ll be Christmas Eve Eve Eve. Just as important, it’ll be Festivus Eve! So here’s the dilemma. Here at the FFFW, we celebrate both […] Read More
It’s Friday and going into the weekend it’s always nice to have something to think about. . . . How about this for today. . This article from Seeking Alpha looks at the past fiscal year for Matthews International and uses that information as well as […] Read More
On October 30, 2023, Batesville issued a press release introducing the “Generations by Batesville” — “a new line of sustainable caskets designed to address the increasing demand for more enviornmentally-friendly products“. You can see the press release here. Of the new line of caskets, Jenn Parvin, SVP […] Read More
Introducing Generations™ by Batesville, Sustainable Caskets for Environmentally-Conscious Consumers BATESVILLE, Ind., October 30, 2023 – Batesville announced the introduction of Generations™ by Batesville, a new line of sustainable caskets designed to address the increasing demand for more environmentally-friendly products. The initial launch includes three products, the Promise™, Sincerity™ and Haven™, […] Read More
