Dignity Group is a funeral-related service provider in the United Kingdom.

Dignity Group
IndustryFuneral services
Founded1994
HeadquartersSutton Coldfield, Birmingham, UK
Key people
Shirley Garrood, Non-Executive Chair
Zillah Byng-Thorne, CEO
RevenueDecrease £314.1 million (2021)
Decrease £15.9 million (2021)
Websitewww.dignityfunerals.co.uk
Footnotes / references
Dignity plc Annual Report & Accounts 2020

History

edit

The business was created in 1994 through the merger of Plantsbrook Group and Great Southern Group,[1] both of which companies had been acquired by Service Corporation International Inc earlier that year.[2] In 2002 the merged business was the subject of a management buyout from Service Corporation International Inc.[3] The merger brought together a number of funeral service businesses.[1]

There are currently 795 Dignity Funeral Directors across the UK. Several mergers and organic growth have brought together a number of historic funeral businesses, private cemeteries and crematoria over the years, including:

In January 2023, the board agreed to accept an offer for the company from a consortium of investors including SPWOne V Ltd, Castelnau Group and Phoenix Asset Management.[4]

Operations

edit

Dignity provides funeral services, cremations and pre-arranged funerals UK-wide through three separate brands:[5]

  • Dignity Funeral Services
  • The Crematorium and Memorial Group
  • Simplicity Cremations

References

edit
  1. ^ a b "Dignity Caring Funeral Services - About us - History". dignityfunerals.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. ^ Competition Commission Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Managers buy out UK funeral giant BBC, 11 February 2002
  4. ^ "UK funeral service provider Dignity agrees to $349 mln takeover". Reuters. 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Dignity plc Annual Report & Accounts 2020" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2021.
edit