Durham, N.C., Funeral Homes Resist International Firms' Overtures.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ......one of Durham's 11 funeral homes, which are all still...But don't count on death care corporations fading...Texas, owns 3,000 funeral homes -- including homes...Loewen operates 1,101 funeral homes and had $878 million...hostile takeovers of funeral homes, ...

The death care industry: a review of regulatory and consumer issues.

Journal of Consumer Affairs;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to compose the death care industry. In...regulation. Although funeral homes were not regulated...surrounding the death care industry, it...industry. The death care industry can...GAO] 2003): (1) funeral homes, (2) crematories...percent of these ...

Making a killing. (mortuary businesses in Hawaii)(includes related article...

Hawaii Business;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......up Hawaii funeral homes and cemeteries...franchises. Only funeral homes have resisted...country's 22,000 funeral homes were family-own...percent of funeral homes are owned...rapidly growing death care companies...has 1,000 funeral homes and ...

Canadian owner to sell funeral homes in state 18-home deal allows firm to...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 31, 1997 ;     439 words ......Canadian company that owns 18 funeral homes and two cemeteries in Wisconsin said Wednesday it would sell the funeral homes so that it can expand in the...law restricts ownership of both funeral homes and cemeteries. Loewen Group...

LARGE FIRMS ARE CHALLENGING INDEPENDENT FUNERAL HOMES.(BUSINESS)

The Virginian Pilot;  February 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......WRITER Across the nation independent funeral homes, increasingly attractive to acqisition-mind...They estimate that about 15 percent of funeral homes and cemeteries are now owned by five...Canada-based Loewen Group Inc. Corporate-owned funeral homes typically don't advertise their ...

OWNERSHIP DISCLOSURE IS NOW LAW< THE NEW LAW IS AIMED PRIMARILY AT...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  September 24, 1999 ;     457 words ......Maine) 09-24-1999 FRIDAY BUSINESS Funeral homes have become the first businesses in...into effect last week. Under the law, funeral homes must disclose the names and addresses...in Houston, owns more than two dozen funeral homes in Maine. SCI is the world's largest...

Fairfax Code Keeps Death at a Distance; Funeral Homes Few in County of 1...

The Washington Post;  December 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ......t stay there forever. There are no funeral homes or cemeteries. The dead have to commute...counts only a handful of full-fledged funeral homes, in part because officials, in their...county. "Clearly, we're underserved by funeral homes," said Supervisor Gerald E. Connolly...

OWNERSHIP DISCLOSURE IS NOW LAW< THE NEW LAW IS AIMED PRIMARILY AT...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  September 24, 1999 ;     457 words ......Maine) 09-24-1999 FRIDAY BUSINESS Funeral homes have become the first businesses in...into effect last week. Under the law, funeral homes must disclose the names and addresses...in Houston, owns more than two dozen funeral homes in Maine. SCI is the world's largest...

Search for Bodies Continues at Noble, Ga., Crematory; Funeral Homes Face...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  February 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Feb. 19--At least 20 funeral homes that contracted with Tri-State...Crematory continue, it's the numerous funeral homes that did business with the facility...under investigators' scrutiny. Funeral homes that sent bodies to Tri-State...

Funeral homes to be paid for coroner work: County agrees to $1,000 per...

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA);  December 26, 2006 ;     480 words ......years, Kootenai County's two major funeral homes removed bodies for free, only occasionally...commissioners have agreed to pay the funeral homes $1,000 a month for their services...having to do it more often. Though the funeral homes profit on any funerals or services...

Survey of State Regulators--Regulation of Funeral Homes, Cemeteries,...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......regulating the death care industry, primarily funeral homes, crematories...regulating the death care industry, as...regulators of the death care industry. To...each of the five death care industry components...within our scope--funeral homes, ...

Blacks Losing Funeral Homes

Sun Reporter, The;  January 17, 2002 ;     487 words ......The number of African-American owned funeral homes in the U.S. has fallen over the last...cremations and that means more money for the funeral homes. The typical Black-owned funeral home...through the 1970s, Blacks who operated funeral homes were viewed as leading civic leaders...

Georgia group buys Tobias Funeral Homes SMALL BUSINESS: Meridian Mortuary...

Dayton Daily News;  May 29, 2005 ;     577 words ......Tobias family, operators of six Dayton funeral homes, the want-ad would have read like this...corporation from Alpharetta acquired Tobias Funeral Homes on May 18. Meridian owns 44 funeral homes in nine states. Meridian purchased the...Dan Tobias, general manager for the ...

Some East Tennessee Funeral Homes Revert to Local Ownership.

The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Bill Brewer Jan. 16--Several chain funeral homes in East Tennessee are returning to...paying premium prices for hundreds of funeral homes and cemeteries across the country...operating Jones and Son and West-Merly funeral homes in Oneida but have resold Martin Oak...

San Diego-based firm buys 18 Wisconsin funeral homes Properties had been...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 24, 1998 ;     257 words ...A group of 18 Wisconsin funeral homes has been sold to a San Diego...operator. Hamilton Group bought the funeral homes from Skokie, Ill.-based Charon...gives the company more than 95 funeral homes and cemeteries in 12 states...