Quiring Monuments

What Quiring Monuments does

Quiring Monuments is a family-owned memorial products manufacturer and retailer founded in 1951 and headquartered in Washington State. The company designs, fabricates, and distributes custom granite memorials including upright monuments, benches, columbariums, cremation products, garden stones, and pet memorials. Production is anchored by a Kent, WA warehouse where the company processes more than 2 million pounds of granite annually using in-house sandblasting, laser etching, and hand-tooling capabilities. A proprietary product line, Living Headstones®, embeds QR codes linking physical monuments to digital memorial archives, representing the company's primary technology differentiation.

The company operates three go-to-market channels: a Bellevue retail showroom serving individual families, a wholesale dealer network supplying cemeteries and funeral homes, and direct worldwide shipping for both domestic and international customers. A 69-item product catalog spans low-ticket cremation and pet memorials through high-value civic and institutional monuments. The business model is project-based, one-off memorial sales rather than recurring contracts, with revenue tied to consumer memorialization cycles and institutional procurement.

Name

Quiring Monuments

Legal name

Quiring Monuments, Inc.

Website

https://monuments.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1951

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Quiring Monuments is a family-owned Washington State manufacturer and retailer of custom granite memorials, processing 2 million+ pounds of granite annually to serve families, cemeteries, funeral homes, and civic institutions via showroom, wholesale, and worldwide shipping channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Memorial Products Manufacturing

NAICS

Burial Casket Manufacturing (339995)

SIC

Cut Stone & Stone Products (3281), Coating, Engraving & Allied Services (3470)

akta.pro primary industry

Granite Quarrying & Dimension Stone Fabrication (IMAKAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Marble Quarrying & Dimension Stone Fabrication (IMAKAHAE)

Keywords

• Granite memorial manufacturing
• Custom monument design
• Cemetery monuments
• Cremation memorials
• Headstone engraving

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Memorial Products: Sale of granite memorials including upright monuments, benches, columbariums, cremation products, and garden memorials. Prices quoted upon consultation; shipping within US included in price.
2. Custom Design Services: Design consultation and custom memorial creation services. Pricing not publicly disclosed; handled through quote requests and consultations.
3. Wholesale to Cemeteries and Funeral Homes: Memorial consultant team coordinates with cemeteries and funeral homes to assist families in creating memorials. Dedicated wholesale customer service team.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Quiring Monuments designs, manufactures, and ships custom granite memorial products including upright monuments, granite benches, columbariums, cremation urns, and garden/pet memorials. The company offers personalized design consultation, sandblasting, laser etching, and hand-tooling services, with worldwide shipping and dedicated wholesale support to cemeteries and funeral homes.

Product overview

Quiring Monuments is a memorial products company offering a comprehensive portfolio of granite memorial products organized into four main categories: Upright Memorials (including Quiring Custom Uprights QCU series and Designer Series Monuments DSM series), Cremation Products (columbariums, cremation urns in granite and stainless steel, cored posts, urn vaults, pedestals, and cremation benches), Granite Benches (including Monubenches combining bench and monument features), and Garden/Home Memorials (heart, oval markers, and tribute plaques). The company also offers Living Headstones® featuring QR code technology that links physical monuments to digital archives. With 75 years of experience, the company manufactures memorials from granite with various customization options including granite colors, letter styles, graphics, and panel styles. The product portfolio spans 69 total products across upright monuments, benches, cremation items, and garden memorials, with offerings for both human and pet memorials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Living Headstones® A digital archive system linked to a granite headstone via an engraved QR code, providing space for an obituary, family heritage and historical information, photos, a comments section, and external links. Targeted at families who want a digital companion to a traditional memorial.
• Quiring Custom Uprights (QCU Series) Custom upright granite memorial monuments featuring tablets, bases, seats, pedestals, and planters, available in multiple granite colors and configurations. Designed for families and cemeteries seeking personalized upright headstones.
• Designer Series Monuments (DSM Series) Pre-designed upright granite headstone monuments offered in various top styles including oval, flat, and serpentine, available in multiple granite colors. Targeted at families looking for a ready-to-customize upright memorial.
• Granite Columbariums 100% granite cremation storage units with no concrete used, available in 2-niche and 4-niche configurations with alcove caps, vase options, and niche shutters with rosettes or slip-slide closures. Sold to families, cemeteries, and institutions for private or community installations.
• Columbarium Bench 40 x 16 x 21 inch granite bench with shutter inserts for cremation memorial purposes, combining seating and niche storage. Designed for families and cemeteries wanting combined functional seating and cremation storage.
• Cremation Urns All-polished granite and stainless steel cremation urns in rectangular and cylinder shapes, sized to fit granite niches and cremation benches. Targeted at families selecting cremation memorialization.
• Cored Posts and Urn Vaults Granite cored posts (individual and companion) and cored urn vaults that hold cremation remains in cemetery settings. Targeted at families and cemeteries needing above-ground cremation memorial markers.
• Cremation Pedestal 18 x 18 x 30 inch granite pedestal with a 14 x 14 x 23 inch urn area and multiple decorative top style options. Designed to display cremation urns in garden or cemetery settings.
• Granite Memorial Benches Memorial benches made from granite offered in leg, park, pedestal, and curved seat styles with multiple lengths. Targeted at families, parks, and cemeteries seeking durable commemorative seating.
• Monubenches Combined memorial bench and upright monument products with integrated seating and inscription areas, available in pedestal, leg, and park styles. Designed for families wanting both a bench and an upright memorial in one piece.
• Garden and Pet Memorials Small granite garden markers and pet memorials in heart and oval shapes, designed for home gardens or pet cemetery plots. Targeted at families memorializing pets or loved ones in non-traditional settings.
• Tribute Plaque 8 x 10 inch laser-etched black marble plaque designed for home memorial use. Targeted at families wanting an indoor or home-based tribute option.

Quantifiable outcome

• Ships monuments anywhere in the world

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Matthews International: Public company with a major Memorialization segment offering granite and bronze memorial products, cremation equipment, and cemetery products. Most direct large-scale competitor to Quiring in the granite memorial manufacturing space.
• Rock of Ages (Polycor): Historic granite memorial company operating its own quarries and fabrication facilities, now part of Polycor. Direct competitor in granite memorial manufacturing with vertically integrated quarry-to-finished product operations.
• Cold Spring Granite: Long-established granite memorial and dimensional stone manufacturer (now under Polycor). Direct peer in granite memorial fabrication with comparable product categories and craftsmanship positioning.
• Dakota Granite: Granite memorial manufacturer based in Milbank, South Dakota, producing granite memorials, cremation products, and custom stone products. Comparable mid-sized family-owned granite fabrication peer.
• Aaron-Lite Memorials: Custom granite memorial manufacturer serving wholesale and retail customers, with comparable product lines including upright monuments, cremation products, and benches. Direct competitor in the custom granite memorial segment.
• Rome Monument Group: Custom granite monument manufacturer offering traditional upright monuments, cremation memorials, and personalized headstones. Similar mid-sized manufacturing operation serving wholesale and direct customer segments.
• Olympic Memorial Group: Memorial products manufacturer offering granite and bronze monuments, cremation products, and cemetery signage. Comparable mid-market competitor in the memorial product manufacturing space.

Broad incumbents

• Polycor: Canadian natural stone company and parent of Rock of Ages and Cold Spring Granite. Largest natural stone producer in North America, competing across all granite memorial and monument categories with broader industrial reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@quiringmonuments
• Facebookfacebook.com/quiring.monuments
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quiring-monument-co
• Xx.com/customheadstone

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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