PLC Completes Acquisition of Family Legacy, LLC and WG-TN, LLC

Strategically expands U.S. footprint into Tennessee

TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2020 /CNW/ - Park Lawn Corporation (TSX: PLC) ("PLC" or "Park Lawn") is pleased to announce that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of all of the outstanding stock and membership interests of Family Legacy, LLC ("Family Legacy"), a business with 12 locations operating in the greater Nashville, Tennessee area, as well as all of the outstanding membership interests in WG-TN, LLC ("Harpeth Hills"), a large combination business located in Nashville, Tennessee.  The acquisition excludes one stand-alone funeral home that Park Lawn initially intended to acquire from Family Legacy.  As a result, the purchase price for Family Legacy has been proportionately reduced and, in the first full year of operations following closing, PLC management now expects Family Legacy and Harpeth Hills, on a combined basis, to generate approximately US$20.2 million of revenue and approximately US$5.5 million of EBITDA. 

"We are excited to welcome the Family Legacy and Harpeth Hills businesses into the Park Lawn family.  The completion of these acquisitions provides Park Lawn with the unique opportunity to enter the middle Tennessee market as the premier provider of funeral and cemetery services in the area," stated Andrew Clark, Chairman and CEO of PLC. 

About Park Lawn Corporation:

PLC provides goods and services associated with the disposition and memorialization of human remains.  Products and services are sold on a pre-planned basis (pre-need) or at the time of a death (at-need).  PLC and its subsidiaries own and operate businesses including cemeteries, crematoria, funeral homes, chapels, planning offices and a transfer service.  PLC has a North American wide platform with operations in five Canadian provinces and fifteen U.S. states.

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Non-IFRS Measures

EBITDA is not a measure recognized under IFRS and does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS. Such measure is presented in this news release because PLC management believes that such measure is relevant in interpreting the effect of the acquisitions on PLC. Such measure, as computed by PLC, may differ from similar computations as reported by other similar organizations and, accordingly, may not be comparable to similar measures reported by such other organizations. Please see PLC's most recent management discussion and analysis for how the Company reconciles such measure to the nearest IFRS measure.

SOURCE Park Lawn Corporation

Andrew Clark, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, [phone]; Joseph Leeder, Chief Financial Officer & Director, [phone]

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