Federal Express Corporation

Kinko's Founder Paul Orfalea Fires Back

Paul Orfalea, who founded Kinko's in 1970, released a statement to the press on Friday about FedEx's decision earlier this month to drop Kinko's name from...  Read more

Gamers Take On Corporate Icons

A few years back, gamers complained about craven product placement in new titles. Now, as an article posted on Read more

How to Translate Your Brand into an Image

A brand starts with a message about why your company is valuable. The message should communicate this value clearly and consistently. The message s...  Read more

Inside Info on Outside Rivals

Be sure your employees are up-to-date on what your competitors are up to.  Read more

Employee Communications;

How much should your employees know about your competition? A lot, according to Federal Express. The company's monthly internal news-letter includes two...  Read more

Who's Counting?

Some evenings, it may seem to the agents and couriers that "half a billion items" are moving through the Federal Express system. But I am sure, for the s...  Read more

Federal Express's Fred Smith

The man who created overnight delivery says you absolutely, positively have to innovate -- if only to survive.  Read more

Fred Smith: The Entrepreneur Redux

As Frederick W. Smith, the youthful architect of Federal Express Corp., heads for his 40th birthday, he has placed himself on the verge of yet another amb...  Read more

Corrections

In "Prophets of the New Age" (April), the location of Federal Express's headquarters was incorrect. The company is in Memphis. "Someday Supplements"...  Read more

Delivery Services

The U.S. Postal Service was established by the Continental Congress in America on July 26, 1775—thus before the U.S. had had its official start. The...  Read more

FedEx Freight Hikes Rates

May 26, 2004 --While already being hit with soaring gas prices at the pump, businesses took another lump on Monday when FedEx Freight anno...  Read more

Shape Up Your Shipping

"Free Shipping!" As customers, we all like to get free shipping when we place an order. But as business owners, we know shipping costs can quickly eat up ...  Read more

How to Set Up a Home-Based Business

Here's what you should consider before you decide to run a company from your home.  Read more

Frederick W. Smith Of Federal Express: He Didn't Get There Overnight

The history of Federal Express Corp. has become a parable of sorts. Some feel that the significance of the company is that it created a $3-billion industr...  Read more

Marketing Your Mission Statement

The criteria for a good mission statement and a good marketing slogan are the same. Both should be clear in communicating the company's goals and proposition.  Read more

Watch Your Postage Meters

When Federal Express lowered ABL Electronics' shipping prices, the cable manufacturer started billing clients according to the new rates. But FedEx had ne...  Read more

Retailers Start Holiday Promotions Earlier Than Ever

More than a third of consumers say they will begin their shopping by Halloween, according to a new survey.  Read more

Annals of Bootstrapping

Wal-Mart 'economizes' by reversing the charges on long-distance calls and overnight shipping.  Read more

Direct-Mail Help from FedEx Kinko's

Jan. 9, 2007 -- FedEx Kinko's, an operating company of Dallas-based shipping giant FedEx, on Tuesday announced the release of a new servi...  Read more

Operations: Watch Your Postage Meters

A CEO explains how costly a freight mistake can be.  Read more

Midnight Express

In a 24-7 society, every minute counts. But do all minutes count the same?  Read more

The Ticker

Ross Perot and his charts are back. Sixteen years after his failed presidential bid, the founder of EDS has launched a w...  Read more

28 Steps to a Strategic Alliance

How Calyx Corolla, a mail-order flower seller, developed strategic alliances before the company was off the ground.  Read more

U.S. Agency Working to Promote Small Business Exports

July 19, 2004 -- The Commerce Department's U.S. Commercial Service is hoping that teaming-up with the private sector can help boost expor...  Read more

Prophets Of The New Age

Imagine, if you can, what your world would be like without Frederick W. Smith. With the creation of Federal Express Corp., Smith did more than build himse...  Read more

PR Stunts and Start-Ups

Publicity stunts are on my mind this week. This past Sunday night on the premiere of Mad Men, Peggy suggests paying women to fight over a ham, and scores ...  Read more

Shipping and Handling 2.0

I believe this will be a game changer for the shipping business. FedEx will be launching a new service called Read more

Are You An Innovator Or An Entrepreneur?

In common parlance, innovators and entrepreneurs are often confused. Both create something new in the world of business. And both tend to focus obsessiv...  Read more

My Favorite Company

Inc. writers and editors write about their favorite companies.  Read more

Just the Fax

New business information on public fax machines.  Read more

That Certain Something: The World's Most Influential Entrepreneurs

We put the question to six experts: Who are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years?  Read more

Phone Feedback

Quote from The Baldrige, What It Is, How It's Won, How to Use It to Improve Quality in Your Company by Hart and Bogan.  Read more

The Spirit Of Independence; Workers

"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson  Read more

Attention e-Tailers: Watch Those Shipping Costs

If your postal and shipping costs are a big part of your overhead then you've likely already noticed a jump in costs. It's not your imagination. All the m...  Read more

One of the key elements of our ZapMail plan was our belief that the costs of the various components in the system would decrease year after year. This be...  Read more

Software to Ship By

Affordable express-shipping-cost management software now available for personal computers.  Read more

Business Bake-Off Winner

If there was ever a doubt that entrepreneurship was wildly unpredictable, provocative, inspirational, and a never-ending source of entertainment, the floo...  Read more

The 500 Quiz

Questions and answers pertaining to Inc. 500 company statistics.  Read more

The Inc. 100

This edition of the INC. 100 is our eighth such catalog of the country's fastest-growing small public companies. The first was published back in 1979 in ...  Read more