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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Frederick W. Smith and his revolutionary overnight delivery company, FedEx, is familiar to many people, especially ...

Fred Smith, the late visionary who founded FedEx — and who was ultimately responsible for making the company the best corporate partner the PGA Tour has ever had — was not a golf guy. At all. Smith, a ...

FedEx has announced that Fred Smith, the company's founder, is stepping down as CEO on June 1. Smith will be replaced by President and Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam. The company said Smith ...

The FedEx St. Jude Championship stopped at 2:59 p.m. on Aug. 9. The third round of the tournament was briefly paused as organizers held a moment of silence for FedEx founder Fred Smith, who died in ...

FedEx founder Fred Smith, who died June 21, was a staunch University of Memphis supporter and a longtime champion for Tigers athletics. The Tigers will honor Smith throughout the 2025-26 athletic ...

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 College ...

The morning of Aug. 11, for more than two hours inside FedExForum, family members, business executives, members of Congress, a Marine Corps four-star general, musicians, celebrities (Tom Hanks and ...

The last time I saw Fred Smith was just a few weeks ago, at a meeting in Nashville. We were taking a quick break from an intense dialogue with leaders across the political spectrum. Fred had been ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Hundreds packed out the FedEx Forum Monday to honor the life and legacy of FedEx founder Fred Smith. Smith died June 21 and on what would have been his 81st birthday, the shipping ...