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 ...

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

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

By Alex Traub Frederick W. Smith, who bet everything he had on a plan to revolutionize freight transport, courting disaster early on but ultimately winning vindication in the form of power in ...

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

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 ...

When FedEx began in 1971, the idea of overnight delivery was a fantasy to most. The tech wasn’t there, the infrastructure wasn’t ready, and the skeptics were loud. Smith charged forward anyway. Smith ...

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

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

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: ...