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 ...

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 ...

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FedEx founder Fred Smith, known by many as Memphis, Tennessee’s "most important citizen," has died. He was 80 years old. Smith started FedEx in 1973 with 14 small planes flying packages to 25 U.S.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was 80. FedEx started operating in 1973, delivering small ...