Service International (NYSE: SCI) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Service Corporation International specializes in funeral and cremation services, providing compassionate end-of-life care to communities.
Service International
Service International is a provider of funeral, cremation, and cemetery services and products operating in North America. Founded in 1962, the company serves individual retail consumers and families with end-of-life planning and memorial services across the United States and Canada. Its core operations encompass funeral home management, cemetery property sales, cremation services, and advance pre-need contract sales. The company operates network facilities including funeral service locations, cemeteries, and crematoria, while retailing merchandise such as burial vaults, caskets, urns, markers, and monuments, supporting over 600,000 families annually across its operating markets.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Service International
- Funeral Services: Funeral home operations offering at-need and pre-need funeral and memorial services, including professional care, facilities for visitation, transportation equipment, event coordination, and administrative assistance for families across more than 1,500 funeral service locations in North America.
- Cemetery Property & Interments: Operations across roughly 500 cemeteries offering cemetery property sales, including ground burial sites, mausoleum crypts, lawn crypts, and cremation niches, as well as opening and closing interments and ongoing perpetual cemetery care and maintenance.
- Pre-Need Contract Sales: Direct sales of advance-funded pre-need funeral and cemetery contracts, allowing clients to pre-plan and prepay for future services, property, and merchandise, securing funds through insurance policies or trust arrangements administered for future performance.
- Cremation Services & Memorialization: Direct cremation and specialized cremation memorial services provided through dedicated cremation facilities and funeral locations, including urn selections, cremation niches, columbaria, cremation urn vaults, and dedicated cemetery scattering garden spaces for individual client preferences.
- Cemetery Merchandise & Memorials: Supply and installation of specialized cemetery merchandise, including outer burial containers, granite monuments, custom headstones, bronze markers, memorial plaques, and floral arrangements, alongside personalized inscription and ongoing monument maintenance services.
- Network & Customer Benefit Programs: Centralized customer service programs operating across the provider network, offering transferable pre-arranged funeral plans, child and grandchild coverage programs, national bereavement travel services, and ongoing grief support resources for client families.
Service International executive team
- Mr. Thomas Luke Ryan CPACEO & Chairman
- Mr. Sumner J. Waring IIIPresident
- Mr. Eric D. Tanzberger CPAExecutive VP & CFO
- Mr. John H. FaulkSenior VP & COO
- Ms. Elisabeth G. NashSenior Vice President of Operations Services
- Ms. Tammy R. MooreVP & Chief Accounting Officer
- Alanna O'ConnorAssistant Vice President of Investor Relations
- Ms. Lori E. SpildeSenior VP, General Counsel & Secretary
- Jay AndrewManaging Director of Corporate Communications
- Mr. Gerry D. HeardVP & Chief Sales Officer