COMMERCE 3MC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Blue-Collar Worker, Funeral Director, Embalming
3 Nov 2017
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Pritt andersen, general manager of thompson brothers funeral homes, was reviewing the. One hundred and forty-five years ago, brothers alexander and samuel thompson opened operations of the mount hamilton chapel location. In 2013, he had planned on the chapel performing 90 services for the year but with the june figures in front of him, that location would now be lucky to do 70. Something had to be done to improve the performance of that location. As funerals could be an expensive service, he wondered if emphasizing a different method of pricing would help. He was concerned, though, about how customers and the other funeral homes in the area would react. Company history one of hamilton"s first funeral homes. By 2013, in the greater hamilton area, five locations comprised the thompson brothers funeral homes company. The most recent change for the company was the 2007 sale of the firm to trillium funeral service of toronto, a subsidiary of.
