Casket makers have for centuries made a living from human burials, and the fact that we are all going to die has provided a predictable source of recurring revenue. But today, people are choosing a ...

Is Batesville Casket deviously fixing prices and gouging the bereaved? Or is it just a tough company protecting the channel? The Batesville Casket Co.'s cavernous coffinmaking plant in Batesville, Ind ...

BATESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Hillenbrand Inc. said Thursday that it has reached an agreement to sell its Batesville Casket Co. subsidiary — the largest producer of caskets in the U.S. — to an affiliate of ...

One of southeast Indiana's largest employers will be laying off 100 employees. The city that surrounds Batesville Casket Company will likely feel the impact.The company's president, Kim Dennis, said ...

Hillenbrand Industries Inc. said today that its Batesville Casket Co. unit has aborted its planned acquisition of Yorktowne Caskets Inc. because it learned yesterday that Yorktowne sold some of its ...

Achievements: 73.1% reduction in returns as a percent of production since 2002. Excellence Achievement Award from National Safety Council for 1 million work hours without a lost work day in 2005. At ...

The Batesville Casket Co. maintains a huge presence in the southeastern Indiana city of Batesville. It’s built oblong boxes there since 1884, and today its state-of-the-art plant pumps out tens of ...

BATESVILLE, Ind. — Hillenbrand, Inc. announced Thursday it has agreed to sell its Batesville Casket business to a private equity firm for $761.5 million. The casket manufacturing operation will remain ...

BATESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — LongRange Capital, a private investment firm, has agreed to buy Batesville Casket Co. Batesville Casket Co. is a leading provider of death care products and services.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATESVILLE, Miss. — A casket company known ...

Achievements: 7.2% drop in hours per unit since 2006; 45% improvement in recordable incidence rates from 2007 to 2008; 2004 IW Best Plants winner When Batesville Casket Co.'s Manchester, Tenn., plant ...