MANILA, Philippines - Golden Haven Memorial Park Inc., one the Philippines’ fastest growing memorial park developers, has launched its first memorial chapel and crematorium complex in Las Piñas City, progressing with its vision to become the first complete, full-service deathcare company in the country.
The five segments of the deathcare industry, as defined in GHMPI’s prospectus from last year’s listing, are memorial parks, memorial chapels and services, columbariums, deathcare merchandising (caskets, urns and keepsakes), and pre-need planning.
The opening of the Chapels and Crematorium allows Golden Haven to offer products and services in four of the five.
“This newest development was done to satisfy both the current market requirements as well as in anticipation of a growing demand in the deathcare services, especially cremation,” said majority shareholder, Manuel Villar Jr.. “The chapel we opened is just the first of a chain of memorial chapels that we are looking to open in various locations around the country where we see a growing, yet underserved market for cremation.”
The Spanish-themed chapel and crematorium complex, designed by an award-winning architectural firm, with interiors done by one of the country’s top interior designers, features 12 chapel viewing rooms complete with linked family rooms and two state-of-the-art crematory machines with pollution-control systems installed to ensure minimized emissions.
With the completion of the Golden Haven Chapel and Crematorium, the Ezekiel Complex in Las Piñas now offers a full range of memorial services, including embalming, cleansing, dressing and cosmetic restoration, chapels for the traditional wake periods before burial or cremation, and limousine and hearse services for the transport of the casket to the interment site, and shops and stores for the sale of death care products including floral arrangements, caskets, urns, keepsakes and other products.
GHMPI has developed over 66 hectares of land in eight locations nationwide. The company was the first firm to be listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange in 2016 and is the first company from the deathcare industry to do so.