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

R. Brad Martin, the former vice chairman of the FedEx Board of Directors, was named to the position in a filing to the U.S.

Frederick W. Smith, founder and executive chairman of Memphis-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider FedEx, passed away on Saturday, June 21. Smith was 80.

Fred Smith died Saturday at age 80. Read Forbes’ 1977 profile of Smith, from bone cancer, to war, to the billionaires list.

Firefighters had to rescue a man who got stuck in the chimney of a Connecticut parks building while trying to retrieve his ...