Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An aerospace expert and Managing Director of The Lundquist Group. On June 21, Fred W. Smith, founder of Federal Express, passed ...

Created in 1971, the Federal Express Corporation, an overnight air freight delivery system was an innovative company known for its memorable advertising campaigns. The core of the Federal Express ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Fred Smith started his next-day delivery company Federal Express in 1973, flying packages to customers, it was not an ...

Fred Smith died Saturday at age 80. Read Forbes’ 1977 profile of Smith, from bone cancer, to war, to the billionaires list. Frederick Wallace Smith, the billionaire founder of FedEx, passed away at ...