subsidiary industry funeral services founded batesville indiana 1884 headquarters batesville indiana key people president & ceo products caskets cremation urns revenue 640 million usd 2004 number of employees 3 460 2007 parent hillenbrand inc. website www.batesville.com batesville casket company is a manufacturer of caskets and cremation urns . the company is a subsidiary of hillenbrand inc. 1 and is headquartered in batesville indiana . in addition to batesville indiana there are factories in batesville mississippi chihuahua mexico manchester tennessee mexico city mexico and vicksburg mississippi . a former outlet in campbellsville kentucky closed prior to 2000 . the company traces its roots to 1884 when john hillenbrand began producing handmade wooden caskets . citation needed these caskets had ornate carvings made by casket and furniture companies . citation needed in 1906 hillenbrand purchased the failing batesville coffin company and renamed it to batesville casket company . citation needed references edit casket makers dig in as sal . the wall street journal dana mattioli feb 24 2010 . february 24 2010 . external links edit batesville casket web site hillenbrand inc. web site v t e hill rom holdings subsidiaries hill rom liko welch allyn former subsidiaries hillenbrand inc. batesville casket company retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title batesville casket company & oldid 698988902 categories companies based in indianamanufacturing companies based in indianacoffinshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 january 2016 at 15 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view