Capital Senior Living Corporati (NYSE:CSU)

Carriage Services, Inc. provides death care services and merchandise in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Funeral Home Operations and Cemetery Operations. The Funeral Home Operations segment offers burial and cremation services, and related merchandise to meet a family’s death care needs, including consultation; removal and preparation of remains; sale of caskets and related funeral merchandise; use of funeral home facilities for visitation and services; and transportation services. The Cemetery Operations segment provides products and services, such as interment services; the rights to interment in cemetery sites comprising grave sites, mausoleum crypts, and niches; and related cemetery merchandise, including memorials and vaults. As of March 13, 2012, the company operated 161 funeral homes in 26 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states. It also markets funeral and cemetery services and products on a preneed basis. The company’s preneed funeral or cemetery contracts enable families to establish, in advance, the type of service to be performed, the products to be used, and the cost of such products and services. Carriage Services, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas