Article: NEW PRESSURES ERODE PEACE OF CEMETERIES.(FRONT)

Article: Durham, N.C., Funeral Homes Resist International ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... care" corporations that are buying up funeral homes around the nation have yet to get a ... trying to buy one of Durham's 11 funeral homes, which are all still privately owned ... based in Houston, Texas, owns 3,000 funeral homes -- including homes in Cary and Zebulon ...

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

Article: Black-owned funeral homes feel threat.
Crain's Detroit Business;  September 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... home industry. Along with churches, funeral homes have been long-established institutions ... questions about joint ownership of funeral homes and cemeteries - arrangements outlawed ... cemetery goods, owns about 1,000 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in the United States ...

Article: Canadian owner to sell funeral homes in state ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 31, 1997 ;     657 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 cemetery ... law restricts ownership of both funeral homes and cemeteries. Loewen Group ...

Article: New Trend Proves Tough on Black Funeral Homes in ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... decade, there will be no black funeral homes left in this city." It ... that several black-owned funeral homes won't discount. At the very ... affected by the magnificent new funeral homes built on cemetery grounds ...

Article: LOCAL FUNERAL HOMES SPEAK OUT AGAINST SCI; SCI OWNS ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  April 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Charley Hannagan Staff writer Independent funeral homes this week began running newspaper advertisements ... Corporation International's Syracuse area funeral homes. The advertisements play off community ... Hollis Funeral Home. SCI bought those funeral homes in the mid 1990s. It is the ...

Article: Bradshaw-Carter Memorial & Funeral Services Joins Selected ...
Business Wire;  October 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... today that they have joined Selected Independent Funeral Homes, a professional association of more than 1,500 independently owned funeral homes worldwide. Selected Independent Funeral Homes is the industry leader in funeral care standards ...