Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FedEx Corporation Chairman, President and CEO Frederick Smith has died. He was 80. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fred Smith, the ...

Fred Smith's innovative express shipping company revolutionized air cargo, establishing the overnight delivery standard. He built FedEx into a global shipping giant from a concept in a college term ...

Frederick Smith, who founded global delivery behemoth FedEx Corp. with little more than a dozen planes in the 1970s, has died at the age of 80, the company’s CEO Raj Subramaniam said in a memo to ...

Frederick W. Smith, who revolutionized express delivery as the founder and longtime chief executive of FedEx, a company that became so ubiquitous its name gained currency as a verb, died June 21 in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was 80. FedEx started ...

Frederick W. Smith, the founder and former executive chairman of FedEx, died on Saturday, the company announced. He was 80 years old. "Fred was more than just the pioneer of an industry and the ...