White Funeral Homes

Name

White Funeral Homes

Legal name

Waite Funeral Homes

Website

https://waitefuneralhome.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1902

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Medina

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Funeral and Cremation Services: One-time service fees for funeral, burial, cremation, memorial services, and celebration of life gatherings. Services include professional care, arrangement conferences, ceremony direction, and coordination with cemeteries and other providers.
2. Merchandise: Caskets, urns, keepsakes, memorial items, and funeral merchandise sold alongside services.
3. Flower Arrangements: Flower delivery services through trusted local florists, with orders placed via website and delivered by local florists.
4. Pre-Planning Services: Pre-arranged funeral plans, potentially with pre-funding options including preneed insurance policies. Flexible funding options including life insurance policies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Waite Funeral Homes is a family-owned funeral home that provides funeral, burial, cremation, memorial, and celebration-of-life services, along with pre-planning and grief support programs, to families in Medina County, Ohio. It operates the only on-site crematory in Medina County at its Brunswick location, ensuring continuous custody of remains throughout the process. The company sells related merchandise including caskets, urns, and keepsakes, and supports advance planning through preneed insurance and online pre-planning forms.

Product overview

Waite Funeral Homes operates as a fifth-generation, family-owned funeral home serving Medina County, Ohio since 1902. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of funeral and cremation services centered around two core offerings: traditional Burial Services and the Waite Cremation Center (the only on-site crematory in Medina County). These core services are complemented by specialized offerings including Green Burial, Celebration of Life, Personalized Funeral Services, and Veterans Services. The company also provides supporting services including Merchandise (caskets, urns, keepsakes), Pre-Planning Services with an online pre-planning form, Grief Support Resources, Grief Kits for Children, Obituary Notifications, and Send Flowers functionality. The portfolio emphasizes family-owned continuity of care, with loved ones remaining in Waite's care from initial transfer through final disposition.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Waite Cremation Center: An on-site cremation center operated by Waite Funeral Homes, representing the only on-site crematory in Medina County. Located in Brunswick, Ohio, featuring a chapel that accommodates up to 50 guests.

Products and services

• Burial Services

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Selected Independent Funeral HomesminorOthersIndustry membership organization connecting independent funeral homes. Logo displayed on website footer as a professional affiliation, indicating participation in peer network for best practices and industry standards.
• Ohio Funeral Directors AssociationminorOthersState professional association for funeral directors in Ohio. Membership indicates compliance with state regulations and professional standards.
• National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA)minorOthersNational professional association for funeral directors. Membership demonstrates commitment to professional development and industry standards.
• Better Business Bureau (BBB)minorOthersBBB accreditation indicates commitment to transparent business practices and customer trust standards.
• Medina County District LibraryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity partnership to provide Grief Kits for children and caregivers. Kits include books about grief, activities for emotional expression, and guidance for parents. Available for checkout at local library branches.
• The Ohio Embalmers AssociationminorOthersState professional association for embalmers, indicating specialized professional expertise and continuing education.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• StoneMor Partners: Public funeral services and cemetery operator with a portfolio of owned and managed locations. Comparable core offering — funeral, cremation, merchandise — though at multi-state scale rather than a single community.
• Carriage Services: Public operator of funeral homes and cemeteries with a high-touch, locally-branded operating model. Comparable because it preserves local brand identity while providing centralized back-office — a model Waite could either emulate or be acquired into.
• Foundation Partners Group: PE-backed roll-up acquirer of independent funeral homes and cremation providers. Highly comparable business model (acquires and operates independent funeral homes with on-site cremation) and a likely counterparty in any future sale or roll-up of Waite.
• Park Lawn Corporation: Canadian-listed roll-up of funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries across North America. Direct strategic comparable as an acquirer of independent funeral operators with a focus on cremation.
• Service Corporation International (SCI): Largest North American funeral services and cemetery operator (parent of Dignity Memorial). Comparable because it offers the same core funeral, cremation, and pre-planning services at scale, though across thousands of locations rather than a local family footprint.
• Dignity Memorial (SCI brand): National funeral services brand under SCI offering burial, cremation, and pre-planning. Comparable end-customer offerings (memorialization, veterans benefits, pre-planning) though with national rather than community presence.

Others

• Foxfield Preserve (green burial): Natural burial ground that Waite explicitly partners with for green burial services. Adjacent ecosystem participant — comparable because it is part of Waite's service network and competes for the same green-burial customer in NE Ohio.
• Tukios, Inc. Third-party website and obituary platform provider used by Waite and many independent funeral homes. Comparable as an enabling technology partner — and indicates that the digital layer Waite relies on is commoditized across the industry.

Regional players

• Busch Funeral and Crematory Services: Independent, family-owned funeral and cremation provider serving the greater Cleveland/Northeast Ohio region. Direct regional comparable given overlapping service area, similar family-owned positioning, and offering of on-site cremation.
• A. R. Davis Funeral Home: Long-standing independent funeral home serving Medina and surrounding Ohio counties. Direct local competitor with overlapping service territory and similar family/independent operating model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/WaiteFuneralHome

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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