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.

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

The FedEx Corp. board of directors has elected R. Brad Martin as chairman to replace founder and executive chairman Frederick ...

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

Frederick W Smith, founder of FedEx, died on Saturday(X) Smith was born in Marks, Mississippi, in 1944. He earned his degree from Yale before joining the United States Marine Corps.

Founder of the FedEx Corporation Fred Smith has died Saturday at 80. Smith was born in 1944 in Marks, Mississippi before going on to earn his undergraduate degree at Yale College where he ultimately ...