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.

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

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

FedEx founder Fred Smith, who turned a small delivery company into a global shipping giant, died on Saturday, the company ...

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

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 ...

Frederick W. Smith, who founded FedEx Express Corp. fifty-four years ago and revolutionized the parcel delivery business by ...

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: ...

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 ...

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