Batesville Casket, based in Batesville, Ind., has for years commanded about 40 percent market share of a $1.5 billion industry. Despite strong profitability, growth was flat as cremation gained ...

The Batesville Casket Co.'s cavernous coffinmaking plant in Batesville, Ind. is a macabre study in industrious efficiency. Running full throttle from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. five days a week, ...

The Batesville Casket Co. maintains a huge presence in the southeastern Indiana city of Batesville. It’s built oblong boxes there since 1884, and today its state-of-the-art plant pumps out tens ...

See the other winners of IW's 2006 Best Plants award and find out how they made the top ten. "Diversity is a competitive advantage," explains Doug Kunkel, vice president of operations, as Batesville ...

The Batesville Coffin Co. was founded in 1884. John A. Hillenbrand bought it in 1906, and it became the Batesville Casket Co. Hill-Rom, which made hospital beds and patient-monitoring devices, was ...

Batesville Casket is one of the largest companies in the small town of Batesville, Ind., about 70 miles southeast of Indianapolis. It sells caskets and related products through a direct sales ...

BATESVILLE, Miss. — A casket company known across the south is closing it’s doors. The decision will cost 200 people their jobs. “Just to snatch 200 jobs out of the equation, that is going ...

A southeast Indiana company is laying off about 100 workers later this year.WSCH-FM said that Batesville Casket Company is eliminating its second shift at its plant in Batesville, equating to ...

Batesville continues to make caskets using Marsellus designs, including a solid mahogany "Masterpiece" model. They are produced under the "Marsellus by Batesville" brand name in Batesville, Miss.

With $650 million in annual sales, Indiana-based Batesville Casket Co., a division of Hillenbrand Industries, Inc., is a leading U.S. casket manufacturer. The Batesville, IN, plant alone produces ...