Australian’s are getting older. Australia’s elderly population (officially defined as those over 65 - I hear you saying that’s not that old!) is expected to more than double by 2054-55. When the baby boom generation kicked off in 1946, their life expectancy at birth...

JetBlue's week-long operational breakdown (2007) The crisis: JetBlue's operations collapsed after an ice storm hit the East Coast of the US, leading to 1,000 cancelled flights in just five days. The company’s response: CEO David Neeleman never blamed the weather. He...

Ideally every funeral home should have a comprehensive public relations and communications plan that will be enacted in the event of a crisis. In developing these plans, it would be helpful to prepare scenarios of possible disastrous events to allow management and...

Each casket is produced by hand and takes one of our highly skilled tradesmen more than 20 hours to produce.

Beautiful day here at Ashton HQ on the sunny Gold Coast, Qld. Why not visit us when you're next up our way.  

Congratulations to Mr Alistair Gow OAM, of Alex Gow Funerals in Brisbane, who was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in Governor-General Peter Cosgrove's 2016 Australia Day honours list. Read the full article in the Brisbane Times here:...

Kate Browne of choice.com.au has written a helpful checklist of the necessary processes to follow when someone close passes away. This type of content can be useful for families and can be very helpful if available on funeral home websites. Download...