FedEx nominated Richard Smith, son of the late founder Fred Smith, to its board of directors, representing the Smith family ...

Bravo Zulu is a naval term that means “well done,” and was a favorite phrase of Fred Smith. A jet flyover at the at the FedEx ...

Smith orchestrated FedEx’s initial three-year, multimillion dollar sponsorship commitment in June 1986 – a massive boost for ...

"This key represents our gratitude, our admiration and our enduring respect ...," Memphis Mayor Paul Young said during an ...

FedEx is honoring its late founder, Fred Smith, with a celebration of life event at FedExForum in Memphis on what would have ...

Thousands filed into the FedEx Forum Monday to honor the man many called the most influential person in Memphis, FedEx ...

Hundreds packed out the FedEx Forum Monday to honor the life and legacy of FedEx founder Fred Smith. Smith died June 21 and ...

FedEx CEO Fred Smith participates in a roundtable discussion with Vice President Mike Pence about Operation Warp Speed at the Air National Guard 164th Airlift Wing on Dec. 3, 2020, in Memphis.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — 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 ...

Frederick W. "Fred" Smith, whose Yale term paper sketching a coast-to-coast overnight-delivery network drew only a "C," used the same blueprint six years later to launch Federal Express FDX -3.49% ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — 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 ...