Alderwoods Group, Inc.

Fate	Defunct, Bought out by Service Corporation International
Successor	Service Corporation International
Founded	2002
Defunct	2005
Industry	Funeral
Employees	8,300 (2005)

Alderwoods Group, formally The Alderwoods Group, Inc., was a provider of funeral, cremation, and cemetery services in North America with operations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its executive office is in Toronto, Ontario, and it has administrative offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Burnaby, British Columbia.

As of June 17, 2006, Alderwoods had 579 funeral homes, 72 cemeteries and 61 combination funeral homes and cemeteries in 36 states, seven Canadian provinces and Puerto Rico. The company's locations include Rose Hills Memorial Park, considered to be the largest memorial park in the world.^[1]

The Alderwoods Group formed after the Loewen Group emerged from bankruptcy on January 2, 2002. In November 2006, Alderwoods was acquired by Service Corporation International in a US$1.2 billion deal^[2] reached in April of the same year.^[3]

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