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. He was 80.

Veteran Fred Smith, who founded FedEx in 1973 with just 389 team members and grew it into a global shipping giant with ...

Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx Corp and a minority owner of the Washington NFL franchise from 2003 to 2021, died at the age ...

Fred Smith, the founder of shipping giant Federal Express, has died at the age of 80, the company announced Saturday.

Commanders release statement following the death of former minority owner Fred Smith, the father of Steelers OC Arthur Smith ...

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

Founder of the FedEx Corporation Fred Smith has died Saturday at 80. Smith was born in 1944 in Marks, Mississippi before ...

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 ...