“The goal has always been to connect with Verstraaten Staatsie Vervoer. We have taken the time to set up our family business with full services from our own ranks. Completely unburdening the customer – from the last care, transfer and laying out to state transport – is a condition that we had imposed on ourselves to be able to join the national formula.”
The former Verstraaten Staatsie Vervoer already relieved the funeral director with various services by working together with regular partners. According to Geert-Jan, the intention was to expand the service package in-house. When they wanted to open up the channels for recruiting their own care teams, they discussed their plans with Randy te Raaij of Het Postmortale Zorgteam. Various options were discussed, from continuing to hire services in the form of cooperation that existed to takeover. The latter option offered the best outcome for both parties. With the takeover of the care employees and the customer base of Het Postmortale Zorgteam and the name change of Verstraaten Staatsie Vervoer, Funeral Assist Zuidoost Nederland is a provider of all services from its own home.
Funeral Assist Netherlands is a partner network consisting of local companies active in logistics and funeral services. Together, the branches support hundreds of funeral directors every day in offering high-quality funerals. Meanwhile, with more than a hundred employees, an extensive fleet, (white label) funeral homes and farewell rooms. The organization tackles mobility issues on a structural basis and has the ambition to reduce the CO2025 emissions of its own vehicle fleet by 2% by 50. In addition, Funeral Assist has set itself the goal of guaranteeing and improving the quality, continuity, synergy and transparency surrounding funerals.
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