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The company was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1971 as Federal Express Corporation by Frederick W. Smith, a graduate of Yale University.He drew up the company's concept in a term paper at Yale, in which he called for a system specifically designed for urgent deliveries.
FedEx supplied an MD-11 and a leased 747 for the flight test phase. FedEx Express became the first air carrier to deploy the Guardian on a commercial flight in September 2006, when it equipped an MD-11 freighter with the pod. [93] [94] By December 2007, the company had nine aircraft equipped with the system for further testing and evaluation. [95]
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FedEx acquired the company in 2015 and re-branded it as FedEx Supply Chain in 2017. [7] The company manages 130 Warehouse and Distribution Center operations in North America region with a total of 35 million square feet of warehouse space under its management. FedEx Supply Chain was recognized by Multichannel Merchant as a Top 3PL for 2018. [8]
American Freightways Corp. (AF) was an American regional less than truckload (LTL) carrier based in Harrison, Arkansas.It was acquired by FedEx in 2001, [2] renamed FedEx Freight East in 2002, [3] and its operations were merged with FedEx's other LTL subsidiaries in 2010 to form FedEx Freight Inc. [4]
In the early days of FedEx, Smith had to go to great lengths to keep the company afloat. In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he took the company's last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill. It kept FedEx alive for one more week. [17]
FedEx Office Print & Ship Services Inc. (doing business as FedEx Office; formerly FedEx Kinko's, and earlier simply Kinko's) is an American retail chain that provides an outlet for FedEx Express and FedEx Ground (including Home Delivery) shipping, as well as copying, printing, marketing, office services and shipping.
FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of the FedEx Corporation, is an American ground package delivery company headquartered in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.The company began as Roadway Package System (RPS), founded in 1985 by transportation company Roadway Services Inc., later renamed Caliber System.