NFDA?s Asia Funeral Expo & Conference Shows Continued Growth
Attendance at the National Funeral Directors Association?s (NFDA) third annual Asia Funeral Expo & Conference (AFE), held May 13-15 in Hong Kong, increased by 15%, to 2,300 funeral...
Army Finds Problems With Records System at Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery officials with limited expertise in federal contracting regulations and scant outside supervision improperly paid millions of dollars to companies that failed to create a digital...
Messenger Purchased By Chicago Investment Group
Prairie Capital has purchased Messenger from Bic APP. The sale closed June 18. Terms of the deal were not announced in a release. ?By divesting the funeral stationery...
ConnectingDirectors.com Wants to Send You To The NFDA Expo For FREE!
It is hard to believe that it is already time to start thinking about the NFDA Convention. I am so excited about this years convention because: it is...
High School Students Build, Donate Infant Caskets
The erratic buzz of saws reverberates through the Bonner Springs High School wood shop weeks after school let out. The smell and taste of fine pine dust lingers...
IKEA Offering Caskets Too, and a DIY Guide?
We can now add IKEA to the list of online casket retailers right along side online retail giants Walmart and Amazon. IKEA is taking it a step further...
NFDA Names Edward J. Defort Editor-in-chief of The Director Magazine
Edward J. Defort, veteran funeral service trade publication editor and writer, has been named the new editor-in-chief of The Director magazine, the official publication of the National Funeral...
What Your Banker Thinks of Your Real Estate
Tiffany Stewart is currently a graduate student at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas and expects to complete a Masters in Counseling in 2011. Her areas of...
Southwest Finds Shipment of Human Heads on a Plane
A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.
Stewart Enterprise, Funeral Consumers Alliance, Enter Agreement to End Lawsuit
Stewart Enterprises, Inc., Funeral Consumers Alliance, Inc. (FCA), and their respective counsel today jointly announced that Stewart and FCA have entered into a confidential Settlement Agreement ending a...