Federal Express Corporation


How to Translate Your Brand into an Image

By Kim Brooks |  Jan 5, 2001

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 story

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 fir...  Read story

Fred Smith: The Entrepreneur Redux

By Katie Hafner |  Jun 1, 1984

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 story

Corrections

Sep 1, 1984

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

Federal Express's Fred Smith

Oct 1, 1986

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

Who's Counting?

By Susan Grubb |  Jan 1, 1987

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 story

Employee Communications;

By Reported by Leslie Brokaw |  Apr 1, 1988

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 story

FedEx Freight Hikes Rates

By Matt Quinn

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 story

Inside Info on Outside Rivals

Jan 1, 1995

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

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

By Eugene Linden |  Apr 1, 1984

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 story

Shape Up Your Shipping

By Rhonda Abrams |  Sep 1, 2003

"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 story

Annals of Bootstrapping

By George Gendron |  Aug 1, 1993

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

Watch Your Postage Meters

Jan 1, 1998

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

Operations: Watch Your Postage Meters

By Phaedra Hise |  Oct 1, 1995

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

Marketing Your Mission Statement

By Francisco Dao |  Nov 1, 2006

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 story

Retailers Start Holiday Promotions Earlier Than Ever

By Angus Loten |  Oct 24, 2006

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

Midnight Express

By Joseph Rosenbloom |  Jul 1, 2001

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

28 Steps to a Strategic Alliance

By Leslie Brokaw |  Apr 1, 1993

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

Direct-Mail Help from FedEx Kinko's

Jan 9, 2007

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 story

U.S. Agency Working to Promote Small Business Exports

By Matt Quinn

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 story

The Ticker

By Nitasha Tiku |  Aug 1, 2008

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

Prophets Of The New Age

Apr 1, 1984

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 story

Are You An Innovator Or An Entrepreneur?

By Robert B. Tucker |  Oct 1, 1986

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 story

Just the Fax

By Leslie Brokaw |  Dec 1, 1988

New business information on public fax machines.  Read story

My Favorite Company

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 1989

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

Phone Feedback

By Inc Staff |  Jun 1, 1993

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 story

The Spirit Of Independence; Workers

By Curtis Hartman |  Jul 1, 1985

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

That Certain Something: Influential Entrepreneurs

By Ryan McCarthy |  Apr 1, 2009

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

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By Frederick W. Smith |  Dec 1, 1986

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 story

Software to Ship By

By Robert A. Mamis |  Mar 1, 1992

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

The 500 Quiz

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Dec 1, 1990

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

The Inc. 100

By George Gendron |  May 1, 1986

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 story

Steve Prelosky

Jun 1, 1987

Age: 30 Hometown: Pittsburgh Undergraduate Degree: Pennsylvania State University Business School: Graduate School of Industrial Administ...  Read story

Matters Of Fact

Apr 1, 1985

In 1979, David Birch shattered the prevailing wisdom about job creation. Now he's at it again.  Read story

Best-Laid Plans

By Judy Coovert |  Jun 15, 1998

A business owner writes a business plan with PlanWrite Expert Edition, but decides it's geared more towards large corporations. A software review.  Read story

Express Delivery

By Anne Stuart |  Mar 15, 2001

After years of careful, deliberate work in the shipping and logistics business, Accuship's Mason Kauffman pulls out all the stops in a race to rule the onlin...  Read story

Looking Good

By George Gendron |  Jan 1, 1996

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a quick look at a new magazine, @issue, devoted to design.  Read story

Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later

By Paul T. Lauria |  Jul 8, 2005

Some decision makers equate putting off vehicle replacement purchases with saving money, but sooner or later you have to pay the piper.  Read story

Rediscovering Enterprise

By George Gendron |  Apr 1, 1984

Five years ago this month, INC. published its first issue. The magazine was 112 pages in length, and weighed in at eight and a half ounces. Its contents i...  Read story

Mobile Messages

By Ellen Kolton |  Apr 1, 1985

The lumber and chicken-wire antenna on the roof of Gary Noreen's car drew a lot of attention on southern California freeways last fall. With $5,000 worth...  Read story