BATESVILLE, Ind. — Hillenbrand, Inc. announced Thursday it has agreed to sell its Batesville Casket business to a private equity firm for $761.5 million. The casket manufacturing operation will remain ...

BATESVILLE, Ind. – A private investment firm will buy an Indiana business that’s been making caskets in Indiana since the 19 th century. Founded in 1884, Batesville (commonly referred to as the ...

Batesville Casket Co.'s Manchester, Tenn., manufacturing plant has been named one of the Top 25 plants in North America for 2003 by IndustryWeek magazine. Batesville was the only funeral service ...

Achievements: named Plant of the Year in 2006 by its parent company G.C. Hillenbrand for overall performance; implemented a machine maintenance program that reduced lost production cycles by 84%; ...

Hillenbrand is well known as holding company of Batesville Casket Co. Over the past five years, Hillenbrand has strategically acquired three new businesses in deals worth $1.2 billion CEO says ...

One of the top-rated manufacturing plants in the country, at least judging by a recent string of awards, is a coffin factory in Manchester, Tennessee, about halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga.

Is Batesville Casket deviously fixing prices and gouging the bereaved? Or is it just a tough company protecting the channel? The Batesville Casket Co.'s cavernous coffinmaking plant in Batesville, Ind ...

Batesville Services employs 3,000 people, about 600 of whom work in Indiana. The plant in Batesville produces premium copper, bronze and stainless-steel caskets. (Photos courtesy of Batesville ...

BATESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — An Indiana business once known for its casket manufacturing announced Wednesday it has acquired a Kansas City, Missouri-maker of equipment to process food and materials.

In the spring of 2005, a glossy black trailer 53 ft. long began wending its way on a national tour. It contains a singular exhibit: the latest and coolest in casket designs from the country’s leading ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NASHUA, N.H. (AP) – A company that makes burial caskets is closing its ...

Achievements: 7.2% drop in hours per unit since 2006; 45% improvement in recordable incidence rates from 2007 to 2008; 2004 IW Best Plants winner When Batesville Casket Co.'s Manchester, Tenn., plant ...