Doris Davis, Children’s book author, (Grandma Dee Dee) will arrive in New Orleans for the NFDA convention this fall with 3,500 copies of her frog books containing over 70,000 frogs. Doris plans to provide sample packets of her books to as many funeral directors as time will allow. Doris began her writing career in 2004 [...]
Des Moines, Iowa — Ward Group®, an independent firm specializing in insurance industry benchmarking and best practices, has included Homesteaders Life Company in its 2010 list of 50 top performing life and health insurers in the United States. More than 800 insurers were analyzed for this year’s benchmarking. Each company must pass certain safety and [...]
St. Louis, MO – ForeverLoved Charms brings new urns into the memorial market. Each jewelry urn is created in Sterling silver or 14kt yellow or white gold in two different sizes. “One of the most important advances with our urns is that they are sealed completely,” said Joel Ragan, President of BabyFaces.com, Inc., the parent [...]
Ranking Analyzes Five-Year Financial Performance of More Than 800 U.S. Based Life-Health Insurance Companies Indianapolis, IN — August 5, 2010 — Forethought Life Insurance Company (“Forethought”), a leading provider of insurance and financial products, today announced it has been named among the nation’s top 50 highest-performing life-health insurance companies in the prestigious 2010 Ward’s 50® [...]
Mishawaka, IN – To fill a void in the offerings of durable, reasonably priced crematory urns, EckCo Products is introducing the I Remember Urn line of personalized urns for families to celebrate their deceased family member’s life. “Our mission is to provide an attractive, low-cost urn for that portion of the market that is leaving [...]
Brownsburg, IN – Russell Cooper has been named Director of Business Development for Water Resolution®, the environmentally responsible alternative to cremation and burial. With a background in early-phase business organization and development, Cooper comes to the position with goals in place and a vision in mind. “I want to increase our interaction with death-care leaders [...]
Polyguard’s newest design in polymer burial vaults gives emphasis to structural strength, protection and personalization. These two new vaults (an airseal vault called the Hercules and a Topseal vault called the Atlas) have been very well accepted by the cemeteries and funeral homes that are currently using the products. The structural strength was achieved from [...]
Northbrook, IL –-FirstCall — Stericycle Inc.’s (Nasdaq: SRCL) Steri-Safe Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training has received national acclaim as a Telly Awards winner for online education. The Steri-Safe BBP Training is the cornerstone of Stericycle’s Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance Program. Serving tens of thousands of various healthcare providers in the U.S., members of the Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance [...]
Mason, OH – Memories That Last A Lifetime provides the most popular way to memorialize loved ones in their line of beautiful photo jewelry – from actual pictures! Whether it is in a necklace, a bracelet, a ring or a keychain, the bereaved will have a permanent, everlasting photograph to wear and look upon every [...]
Zanesville, OH – It’s official – social media is now the #1 activity on the Internet. In fact, popularity of social media sites is growing so fast, it’s almost impossible to have accurate statistics to share. But you’ve got to admit the available numbers are staggering: as of January, 2010, Facebook claims that at least [...]
