Frederick Wallace Smith passed away. After serving as a Marine in the Vietnam War, he founded FedEx in 1971, growing it into ...

Smith, who led FedEx as its chairman and CEO for the vast majority of his tenure, took the rough idea detailed in his rushed college term paper and molded it into a global shipping juggernaut now ...

Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was 80.

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

FedEx started operating in 1973, delivering small parcels and documents more quickly than the postal service. Over the next half-century, Smith, a Marine Corps veteran, oversaw the growth of a company ...

On June 30, the names of businesses that received over $1.5 billion in tax refunds -- like FedEx -- will disappear from ...

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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: ...

The University of Memphis, the Grizzlies and the city of Memphis found themselves in a difficult spot.

Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was 80. FedEx started operating in 1973, delivering small parcels and documents ...

Frederick Wallace Smith, founder of FedEx, passed away this weekend at 80 years old. Smith is a former minority owner of the ...