FedEx Corporation
Type	Public (NYSE: FDX (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=FDX))
Founded	Memphis, Tennessee (1971)
Location	Memphis, Tennessee
Key people	Frederick W. Smith, President/CEO Alan B. Graf Jr., EVP/CFO T. Michael Glenn, EVP/Marketing
Industry	Air Courier
Products	See complete products listing.
Revenue	$24.710 billion USD (2004)
Website	www.fedex.com

FedEx (NYSE: FDX (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=FDX)), properly FedEx Corporation, is a company that offers overnight courier, ground, heavy freight, document copying and logistics services. FedEx is a portmanteau of the company's original name, Federal Express Transparent FedEx logo, converted from eps This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Literally a public company is a company owned by the public. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Foundation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... City nickname: The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area  - Total  - Water 763. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... City nickname: The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area  - Total  - Water 763. ... Frederick W. Smith (1944 - ) is the founder of Federal Express, or FedEx, the largest overnight express delivery company in the United States. ... This article discusses delivery couriers; for the font see Courier (font). ... In business, revenue is the amount of money that a company actually receives from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Green up arrow for a positive change in revenue from last fiscal year. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the second largest stock exchange in the world. ... This article discusses delivery couriers; for the font see Courier (font). ... Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy and information. ... A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining two words. ...

History

The company was founded as Federal Express in 1971 by former U.S. Marine Frederick W. Smith in Memphis, Tennessee, and began operations in 1973. The name was chosen to symbolize a national marketplace, and help in obtaining government contracts. The company, the first cargo airline to use jet airplanes for its services, expanded greatly after the deregulation of the cargo airlines sector. Federal Express pioneered use of the spoke-hub distribution paradigm in air freight, which enabled it to become a world leader in its field. The company operates most of its US overnight freight through its Memphis hub; thus packages from one side of your town to another might find the fastest way via Memphis. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States armed forces. ... Frederick W. Smith (1944 - ) is the founder of Federal Express, or FedEx, the largest overnight express delivery company in the United States. ... City nickname: The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area  - Total  - Water 763. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... National is the Japanese brand under which Matsushita products are sold. ... A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. ... A contract is any legally-enforceable promise or set of promises made by one party to another. ... In UK law, a company is an artificial legal person with a separate identity from its members. ... FedEx Airbus A300 Cargo airlines are airlines dedicated to the transportation of cargo. ... Jet aircraft are aircraft with jet engines. ... Deregulation is the process by which governments remove selected regulations on business in order to (in theory) encourage the efficient operation of markets. ... FedEx Airbus A300 Cargo airlines are airlines dedicated to the transportation of cargo. ... The Spoke-hub distribution paradigm derives its name from a bicycle wheel, which consists of a number of spokes jutting outward from a central hub. ... Wikiquote quotations related to: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... Hub may refer to the following: Look up Hub in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The center of a wheel. ...

In 1989 the company acquired Flying Tigers, an international cargo airline. In January 1998 Federal Express acquired Caliber System, Inc, which owned RPS, Roberts Express, Viking Freight and Caliber Logistics. It later purchased American Freightways. When these companies combined, the new organization became known as FDX Corp. Old Federal Express logo Source: http://www. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flying Tiger Line, also known as Flying Tigers, was the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States and a major passenger charter operator during the Cold War era. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Roadway Package System was a small package shipping company started by Roadway Services and headquartered in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. ... American Freightways (AF; now known as FedEx Freight East) was founded in 1982 by the late Sheridan Garrison. ...

The name "FedEx" had been a popular, if unofficial, abbreviation for Federal Express for several years before the company chose it as its primary brand name in 1994. The "Federal Express" name was eliminated entirely in 2000, when FDX Corporation changed its name to FedEx Corporation. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In February 2004, FedEx bought Kinko's, an American chain that has some 1,200 stores that provide document copying and printing services, for $2.4 billion. Kinkos is a store that provides professional printing, copying, and binding services. ...

In its advertising, the company made famous the line "Absolutely, positively" for their overnight service; the original phrase was "When it absolutely, positively has to get there overnight." Another slogan, "Relax it's FedEx", is well recognized. For several years the company promoted the slogan "Don't panic", particularly on buttons, probably deliberately lifting it from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories. Dont Panic is the advice written across the front of the fictional book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in big, friendly letters, according to the narrator of the novel. ... For other uses of the word button, see Button (disambiguation). ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy originated as a 1978 radio comedy series written by Douglas Adams. ...

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Operating Units and its logos

FedEx Express Logo

FedEx Kinko's store

A FedEx mailbox

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• FedEx Express -- The original overnight courier services. Uses a large fleet of aircraft to move packages. Logo color: orange.
• FedEx Freight -- Less than truckload (LTL) and other freight services. Logo color: red.
  • FedEx Freight East -- Formerly American Freightways.
  • FedEx Freight West -- Formerly Viking Freight.
  • Caribbean Transport Services -- Up until 2003, a part of FedEx Trade Networks. Provides airfreight forwarding services between the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other Caribbean islands.
• FedEx Ground -- Slower delivery times at a cost savings as compared to FedEx Express. Delivers primarily to businesses. Uses a large fleet of trucks. Formerly Roadway Package System (RPS). Logo color: green.
  • FedEx Home Delivery -- A division of FedEx Ground. Delivers to residences, offering service to virtually every address in the US. The logo is that of FedEx Ground, but often includes a drawing of a dog carrying a package.
  • FedEx SmartPost -- Consolidates parcels, formerly the independent company Parcel Direct.
• FedEx Custom Critical -- Delivers urgent, valuable, or hazardous items using a large fleet of trucks and chartered aircraft. Formerly Roberts Cartage or Roberts Express. Logo color: blue.
  • Passport Transport -- Transports cars, especially those of high value.
• FedEx Trade Networks -- Provides services relating to customs, insurance, and transportation advice. Formerly C.J. Tower & Sons, then Tower Group International. Logo color: yellow.
• FedEx Supply Chain Services -- Provides logistics services. Formerly Roadway Logistics System, then Caliber Logistics. The logo color is grey, the same as the corporate logo.
• FedEx Services -- Provides marketing and information technology (IT) services for the other FedEx divisions. The logo color is grey, the same as the corporate logo. Headquartered in Collierville, TN.
• FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services -- Provides a range of media services, including printing, copying, and internet access. The logo color is blue, the same as that of FedEx Custom Critical, but it also includes the name Kinko's in purple after FedEx. Formerly an independent company, it was simply known as Kinko's.

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Other facts of interest

As of 2001 Fedex has 667 airplanes total. They also have the world's largest fleet of wide-body aircraft, such as the DC-10 shown here.

• The movie Cast Away, based on the story Robinson Crusoe, is about a FedEx employee who survives a plane crash and subsequently becomes stranded on an island. According to commentary on the DVD editon of the film, the use of the FedEx name was for authenticity, and not a result of product placement.
• Chief operating officer Jim Barksdale went on to lead Netscape.
• A common story is that Fred Smith got a C at Yale on the paper where he came up with the idea that became FedEx. In an article (http://www.fedex.com/us/about/news/ontherecord/speaker/fredsmith.pdf?link=4) he wrote for the October 2002 issue of Fortune Small Business he said that he doesn't actually know what grade he got. He said he probably didn't get a very good grade, though, because the paper was not very well thought out.
• The company's well-known logo has a right-pointing arrow located in the negative space between the E and x. While the arrow becomes quite obvious when pointed out, most people don't notice it otherwise. The arrow has been occasionally pointed to as a mild form of subliminal advertising, the arrow symbolizing forward movement and thinking.
• The company's planes are named after the children of employees.
• After Federal Express became known as FedEx and subsequently diversified its operations, it called the original service FedEx Express. Since "FedEx" derives from "Federal Express", this means that "FedEx Express" could be expanded to "Federal Express Express" - a pleonasm.
• Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings incorrectly asked "What is FedEx?" to the Final Jeopardy! answer: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." ending his 74-game winning streak. The correct response was "What is H&R Block?," which led to Nancy Zerg's surprise upset.

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Naming rights of sports stadiums and events

• FedEx Field (formerly Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) in suburban Landover, Maryland, home of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League.
• FedExForum in downtown Memphis, home of the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association and the men's basketball program of the University of Memphis.
• The FedEx St. Jude Classic is a PGA Tour event played annually in May in Memphis.

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External links

• FedEx website (http://www.fedex.com/)
• FedEx corporate history (http://www.fedex.com/us/about/today/history/)