OGF

OGF (Groupe OGF) is a French funeral services operator. Its official website describes it as the leading funeral services operator in France and as a specialist in funerals for 200 years, with 6,000 employees dedicated to paying tribute to the deceased. Its stated areas of expertise include organizing funerals, transport and repatriation of the deceased, operation of crematoria and funeral homes, funeral insurance, funeral marble work, and coffin manufacturing.

OGF's official history page states that the group's brands have been inspiring the sector and driving transformations in response to families' expectations since the origin, and describes the group as a precursor for 200 years. The page presents a timeline beginning in the Ancien Régime, when religious administrations held the monopoly on burials in France and funeral supplies were provided by the corporation of 'crieurs-jurés'. In 1801, the Prefect of Seine decided to entrust the administration of Paris funeral services, by adjudication, to a single private entrepreneur, who in return had to take charge of people without resources ('indigents'); the prefecture also made individual, non-reusable coffins mandatory for all. In 1804, the law recognized religious administrations' right to make 'funeral supplies', transferring the rights of the crieurs-jurés to representatives of the faiths; in Paris, the law created a conflict between the clergy and the private concessionaire entrepreneur, and Emperor Napoleon confirmed the principle of a single entrepreneur but required him to remit more than half of his profits to religious administrations. In 1811, several 'classes' of burial were introduced for reasons of simplification.

Self-described as the leading funeral services operator in France and a specialist in funerals for 200 years.

• Organization of funerals

  Integrated skills and attentive teams for the design and organization of a personalized, quality funeral journey.

• Transport and repatriation of the deceased

  Trained drivers and adapted vehicles to transport the deceased with dignity and professionalism; recognized expertise in international repatriation.

• Crematoria

  Construction and operation, on behalf of local authorities, of the leading network of crematoria in France.

• Funeral homes

  Privileged places to gather around the deceased before the funeral, in an intimate, warm and customizable environment.

• Funeral insurance

  Provident contracts to finance one's own funeral, relieve loved ones and express essential wishes.

1. 1OGF, opérateur funéraire par excellenceogf.fr
2. 2OGF, spécialiste du funéraire depuis 200 ansogf.fr
3. 3OGF, l'expertise en organisation d'obsèquesogf.fr
4. 4Groupe OGF: référent des services funérairesogf.fr