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A look Inside SCI Houston #1-YourFuneralGuy

15 Oct
Comment on theWorld's Largest Funeral's Corporation Employee Culture

Comment on theWorld's Largest Funeral's Corporation Employee Culture

Here is a recent comment from a post on this blog. Interesting enough it gives a practical list of things the consumer can do to avoid the deceptions coming from Service Corporation International. Please note the commentator is calling the Corporate Culture at SCI Evil-not your funeral guy. Currently I have no direct knowledge of what goes on at SCI CORPORATE Headquarters In Houston. To be fair the person commenting here lost their job.

Funeral Industry|Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy.

New comment on your post #1741 “Five Grave Scandals in 2009|SCI-yourfuneralguy”

Comment:
I recently lost my job with the corporate office of SCI in Houston, and I will testify that the corporate culture there is evil. If you are going to warn people to avoid SCI funeral homes, they need to know that these funeral homes have different names like “Smith and Sons Mortuary” because SCI buys up mom and pop businesses but leaves them with the orginal name.

People looking to avoid SCI locations should avoid their brand names: Dignity Memorial (as in “Smith and Sons Mortuary, a Dignity Memorial provider”), Advantage (for the low-cost side of the funeral business) and Del Angel (which is exists in markets with large Hispanic populations, to get the corner on them).  If you aren’t sure which locations in your area are owned by SCI, go to DignityMemorial.com and enter your zip code.  They will conveniently provide you with a list of funeral homes to avoid.

SCI(Big Death) to Buy Canadian Funeral Company

15 Oct

The World’s Largest Funeral Corporation Service Corporation International -is trying to expand it’s power base in North America. This time it is Canada.
NYSE:SCI has been plagued with Financial problems(Quarterly Reports), scandal,(3017751065_3596eafc03Eden Memorial Park)and incompetence (Ted Kennedy Funeral) in 2009.

SCI has proposed to buy Keystone North America for 208 Million dollars.

The Toronto-based company, which operates 199 funeral homes and 15 cemeteries across the United States and Ontario, said Thursday the $8 per share offer represents a 34 per cent premium over its 20-day volume-weighted average share price.

via www.google.com

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