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Type of site | Funeral services website |
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| Founded | April 26, 1910 |
| Owner | Service Corporation International (SCI) |
| Founder(s) | Albert Stewart |
| Key people | Thomas J. Crawford (CEO) |
| Employees | around 5,400 |
Stewart Enterprises, Inc., a provider of funeral and cemetery services, was founded in 1910 and grew to be the second-largest company of its kind in the United States before it was acquired in 2013.[1]
As of 1991, the year it went public, the company was headquartered in Jefferson, Louisiana, and employed nearly 5,400 people in 218 funeral homes and 140 cemeteries in 24 states and Puerto Rico.[2] The company was publicly traded and listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol STEI.
In December 2013, Service Corporation International acquired Stewart Enterprises for US$1.4 billion.
- ^ "Stewart Enterprises, Inc. | Company profile from Hoover's". Hoovers.com. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
- ^ "Stewart Enterprises, Inc. - Investor Relations". Ir.stei.com. 1991-10-09. Retrieved 2010-03-16.