Boeing 777-200F FedEx brilliant Lift Off from Runway 27 DEL/VIDP Airport.

Smith has been a major supporter of free trade, in contrast to the push for tariffs and barriers pursued by the current U.S. administration. Yet, the New York Times reported that FedEx’s corporate tax ...

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

A Marine and Vietnam veteran, the business innovation founded FedEx in 1973 with 14 Falcon 20s. He died Saturday at the age ...

Fred Smith died Saturday at age 80. Read Forbes’ 1977 profile of Smith, from bone cancer, to war, to the billionaires list.