It's hard to imagine a Memphis household that wasn't affected in some way, large (employment) or small (the Grizzlies), by ...

Overseeing a fleet of cargo planes from his headquarters in Memphis, he transformed package delivery by promising overnight ...

Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Founder of the FedEx Corporation, Fred Smith, has died Saturday at 80. Smith was born in 1944 in Marks, ...

Delivery giant FedEx has lost its founder. Frederick W. Smith, the founder of FedEx, has died at the age of 80 ...

By Alex Traub Frederick W. Smith, who bet everything he had ... He was honorably discharged from the Marines in 1969. Mr. Smith started Federal Express in 1973 with a fleet of 14 Dassault Falcon ...

After a last-ditch financing effort fell through, Frock said he learned Smith had taken an unorthodox approach to handling the cash problem. As Frock wrote in Changing How the World Does Business: ...

FedEx has named a new chairman after founder Fred Smith died over the weekend. The post FedEx names new chairman to replace ...

Federal Express founder and air cargo industry innovator Frederick Wallace Smith has died at the age of 80. Recognised as a ...

Fred Smith, the visionary behind FedEx and a pioneer of the global express logistics model, has died at the age of 80. FedEx ...

Before launching FedEx, Smith served two tours in Vietnam, where he was twice wounded and earned the Silver Star for combat ...

Smith has been a major supporter of free trade, in contrast to the push for tariffs and barriers pursued by the current U.S. administration. Yet, the New York Times reported that FedEx’s corporate tax ...