Frederick W. Smith, founder of FedEx. Photo courtesy of Frederick W. Smith. Post-service, he followed the entrepreneurial family tradition and founded Federal Express on June 18, 1971.

Smith pointed to a slew of underlying global economic and political issues for the cloudier outlook, including a Brexit-led U.K. slowdown and waning demand from China thanks to the ongoing trade ...

Frederick W. Smith, chairman of FedEx, says his company’s humanitarian work pays dividends in many ways. By Ken Belson The FedEx Guy, and 2 Movie Producers ...

Frederick W. Smith, the founder, president, chairman and CEO of FedEx, built the first overnight express delivery company in the world, starting in 1971.

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% ...

Frederick W. Smith, founder of FedEx Corp. (FDX), has transportation in his blood. His grandfather was a steamboat captain, and his father built from scratch a regional bus line that became the ...

FedEx CEO and Chairman Frederick W. Smith wants a chance to debate federal tax policy with A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, after the paper published an "outrageous" story about ...

1stLt Frederick W. Smith, second from right, CO, “Kilo” Co, 3rd Bn, 5th Marines, with platoon leaders, left to right, Lts Jack Hewitt, Joe Campbell (KIA), Jack Ruggles (KIA), and SSgt Dave ...

Frederick W. Smith, chairman of FedEx, says his company’s humanitarian work pays dividends in many ways. By Ken Belson The FedEx Guy, and 2 Movie Producers ...