Would you credit it?
Here’s an interesting insight from the US into the robustness of the business model of Services Corporation International, the clumping, predatory and often bungling funeral chain which begat our very own Dignity Caring Funeral Services. Dignity is not a notably bungling organisation, but the challenges they both face are related: Because of the lack of […]
Dig those stats
I received this interesting insight into Dignity’s profitability the other day from a good friend of the GFG, Andrew Plume. I was mulling over some Dignity stats the other day. Much is made of 65,000 funerals having been carried out for year ending December 2009. Given that they merrily declare having “546 funeral locations” in the […]
The wages of solicitude
We worry about our football clubs. Many are encumbered by stonking debts. Manchester United owes £716 million. What of our big undertaking businesses? Well, Dignity Caring Funeral Services has just published figures which provide the current answer to that question. And the answer is (sit down, please, and clutch your whisky) that Dignity are leveraged […]
Take it to them!
It’s widely known in the funeral business that the prices charged by Co-operative Funeralcare and Dignity are on the whole higher than those charged by their independent competitors – the family businesses and new start-ups – so many of them passionate ex-Funeralcare employees who tell me they learned everything about what not to do at […]
