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

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

After graduating from Yale in 1966, Fred Smith served four years in the United States Marine Corps, which included two tours ...

When FedEx began in 1971, the idea of overnight delivery was a fantasy to most. The tech wasn’t there, the infrastructure ...

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

A Marine and Vietnam veteran, the business innovation founded FedEx in 1973 with 14 Falcon 20s. He died Saturday at the age ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...