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How Private Equity Is Consolidating the Cremation Industry
In this episode of The Buyout Show, Lucas and Luna examine a sensitive corner of private equity: the consolidation of death care, specifically cremation services. As cremation rates rise past 60 percent in the US, PE firms like Service Corporation International and a wave of regional roll-ups are buying independent funeral homes and crematories at a pace of roughly 100 acquisitions per year. The hosts break down the economics — a cremation averages $2,500 versus $8,000 for a burial — and the tension between scale efficiencies and the intensely personal nature of end-of-life decisions. They…
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