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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Batesville Casket Company is cutting 100 jobs, its entire second shift, starting in March. FOX19 spoke with two employees facing pink slips who wanted to remain anonymous but say they were ...

Achievements: 73.1% reduction in returns as a percent of production since 2002. Excellence Achievement Award from National Safety Council for 1 million work hours without a lost work day in 2005. At ...