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InvoCare owns big national brands including White Lady Funerals and Simplicity Funerals, along with a string of state-based brands.

Funeral operator InvoCare agrees to $1.8b private equity takeover

The business behind Le Pine, White Lady Funerals and Simplicity Funerals says its board is backing the deal.

  • Harry Brumpton

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InvoCare owns big national brands including White Lady Funerals and Simplicity Funerals, along with a string of state-based brands.

InvoCare enters corporate purgatory as $1.8 billion bid fizzles out

The battle for the ownership of Australia’s biggest operator of funerals and private cemeteries has now become tactical.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Consider personal touches, like flowers.

$1.8b takeover bid to stop funeral business going six feet under

Global private equity firm TPG has raided the share register of the business behind Le Pine, White Lady Funerals and Simplicity Funerals.

  • Simon Johanson
Trainee mortician Makayla McQueen wearing the smart headset.

Out-of-body experience: The new tech that shaves 1500km off mortician training

Morticians have used a technological workaround to ensure trainees can still get guidance despite being on the other side of the state.

  • Stuart Layt
Sue Witten entered the funeral industry but her skillset remained the same.

Why going from being a hairdresser to a mortician is easier than you think

Sue Witten never really stopped being a hairdresser, her clients just went from living to deceased. Now she’s calling on more people to follow her into the funeral industry.

  • Stuart Layt
The funeral sector has been put on notice of more enforcement by the ACCC.

‘Unfair advantage’: ACCC cracks down on funeral industry

The ACCC has fined two funeral companies for misleading information, warning the sector that it is on notice.

  • Julie Power
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Emergency physician Ron Sultana at Epworth Richmond Emergency Department. 

Overall death rates are down - now the bad news

Fewer car crashes, workplace accidents and deadly flu infections has pushed down the number of deaths as lockdown limits our interactions.

  • Caitlin Cassidy
Priscilla Nelson Feaver is one of the fifth generation of her family in Nelson Brothers Funerals.

'They're distressed': Funeral sector deals with 10-mourner limit

Grieving families and the broader funeral sector are grappling with the new restrictions of funerals because of the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Cara Waters
Sudden shocks have become commonplace on the Australian sharemarket in the past fortnight.

US stimulus deal sends ASX into last-minute surge

The ASX received a shot in the arm at the end of the day, closing 5.5 per cent higher, as it looks likely $US2 trillion will be injected into the US economy.

  • David Scutt and Lucy Battersby
The first new cemetery in Sydney since 1960 will be at Varroville.

New cemetery with 136,000 burial spots under way

After eight years of delay, an enormous new cemetery will be built on a controversial site in Sydney's south.

  • Julie Power

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