Death Care Products & Services Industry Overview

Companies that provide funeral services and memorial products.

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Consolidation Slows

Following a period of strong consolidation in the 1990s, large companies, like Service Corporation International and Stewart Enterprises, slowed the pace of acquisitions of family-owned funeral homes. In many cases, consolidators paid high prices and accumulated high levels of debt without achieving the economies of scale expected. An exception is when Service Corporation International acquired its biggest competitor Alderwoods Group in late 2006, adding more than 600 funeral homes and cemeteries from the Alderwoods network.

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• Forever Enterprises, Inc.
• Matthews International Corporation
• Alcor Life Extension Foundation

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Death Care Products & Services maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

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• Federated Funeral Directors of America
  
• National Funeral Directors Association
  
• National Selected Morticians
  

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