Supplier News News from OGR’s Supplier Network Green Burial Council certifies Starmark Cremation Products' 'Artisan Vista' product line - The council's certification is awarded to funeral providers that demonstrate compliance with established Council standards, designed to create sustainable practices in the funeral industry and to preserve and steward land through burial. The Artisan Series is available through nationwide Starmark distributors or directly from the Starmark factory. StarmarkCP.com | Robert 'Bob' Hoaglund inducted into Messenger's Sales Hall of Fame - Inaugurated in 2006, Messenger's Sales Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who make outstanding strides in sales achievements and leadership throughout their tenure at the company. Hoaglund's 31-year career included 17 years as Messenger's VP of Sales & Marketing. He retired in 2020. "A great leader surrounds themselves with great people and hard workers. I’ve been fortunate over the years to develop that kind of team. It’s been the best years of my life and I’ll never forget the success and the great times we’ve had,” Hoaglund said when accepting the award. MessengerStationery.com | Funeral Home Gifts offering new free benefit when working with line-of-duty deaths - Want to step up your packages when working with first responders and active duty veterans? Funeral Home Gifts will give a free Tribute Blanket you can present to the family of any first responder or active-duty veteran who dies in the line of duty. FuneralHomeGifts.com OGR welcomes 2 new supply partners LiveControl LiveControl gives funeral homes everything you need to enhance your live stream offering, affordably and easily. Start the multi-camera stream indoors, and transition outside for the graveside burial with our mobile streaming kit. Provide your funeral clients with a dedicated web-player and downloadable recordings of the service. Our clients install our 4k cameras in their funeral home, and our team of remote camera operators pan, tilt, zoom and mix the cameras to produce amazing live streaming videos... entirely remote and in the cloud. Get started with enhanced funeral live streaming for only $99/month. • equipment security deposit waived for two PTZ cameras and a digital recorder ($1,000 value) Gavin Kerr Gavin@LiveControl.io Sales@LiveControl.io 424.535.0079 (direct) 310.361.4169 (general) LiveControl.io/Funeral-Home 38 www.ogr.org | Winter 2022 Reliable Funeral Supply a division of Saint Francis Cromo A family-owned and -operated business since 1973, we are the exclusive direct partner with Cromo NB studios in Milan, Italy, featuring one of the largest private and proprietary owned collection of artwork available anywhere. With the capacity of a manufacturer supplier, our designs are featured in prayer cards that have been comforting families for over 40 years and offered by many funeral homes across the country. Our designs are also featured in acknowledgement cards, urns, caskets, vaults, mosaics and many other products in the funeral industry. We pride ourselves on same-day shipping for all items we stock when ordered before noon. • 15% off regular retail pricing • special OGR promotions throughout the year Mynor Alvarez We Care Customer 818.547.1390, ext. 103 OGR@ReliableFuneralSupply.com ReliableFuneralSupply.com
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