There are 45 article(s) tagged Fred Smith:

• November 2022

  • Calkins: Why have the Showboats returned to Memphis? Answer: Fred Smith.

    Why are the Showboats returning to Memphis? The answer involves Fred Smith. And even if the team doesn’t flourish, its existence can only help the city. Here’s why.

    By Geoff Calkins November 16, 2022

• October 2022

  • Smith: Economy ‘maybe stagflation’

    At last night’s Freedom Awards, FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith talked about the economy and highlighted longtime staff members; two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors spoke about the time it takes to write about history. 

    By Bill Dries October 21, 2022

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks ‘return migration’ at NCRM’s Freedom Awards

    All three recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Awards talked at the Thursday, Oct. 20, ceremony about the present divisions in America and the way forward.

    By Bill Dries October 21, 2022

• September 2022

  • FedEx shareholders approve board of directors, executive compensation

    Shareholders approved the company’s 15 nominees to the FedEx board of directors, including two who were named to the board following an agreement between FedEx and activist investor D. E. Shaw, and compensation for the company’s executive officers. 

    By Rob Moore September 19, 2022

• July 2022

  • Historic Dixie Greyhound Station, Schlitz Brewery to see new life

    The $44 million Uptown redevelopment project is expected to begin later this summer. But the original office of Dixie Greyhound chairman James Frederick Smith — his title still on the door — will be kept much as it is today. 

    By Neil Strebig July 19, 2022

• June 2022

  • Filing reveals annual pay for Fred Smith, new FedEx CEO

    An SEC filing reveals how much Raj Subramaniam and FedEx founder Fred Smith will earn in their new roles. 

    By Rob Moore June 18, 2022

• May 2022

  • FedEx is modernizing its aircraft fleet, making new partnerships

    While FedEx has been working on modernization efforts for a couple of years, the COVID pandemic and related shipping demands prolonged the timeline. 

    By Rob Moore May 02, 2022

• April 2022

  • Bluff City Biz: Future of FedEx and Blue Oval City with Bo Allen

    “It’s hard for me to believe that anyone has done more for Memphis than Fred Smith,” Bo Allen, First Horizon regional president for West Tennessee, Arkansas and North Mississippi, said. 

    By Rob Moore April 04, 2022

• March 2022

  • Raj Subramaniam to succeed Fred Smith as president and CEO of FedEx Corp.

    FedEx announces the next president and CEO following founder Frederick W. Smith’s tenure. 

    By Neil Strebig, Rob Moore March 28, 2022

• July 2021

  • Calkins: At the height of his career, Mike Glenn stepped away from FedEx to care for his daughter. It’s a story of sacrifice and love.

    When Mike Glenn retired from FedEx at the height of his career in 2016, the news release said it was to “transition his focus full time to his family.” This is the story behind that decision, one that is hard and beautiful all at once.

    By Geoff Calkins July 12, 2021

• January 2021

  • Calkins: Titans’ OC Arthur Smith got where he is the Memphis way — with grit and grind

    If you see some of the old Memphis Grizzlies in the Tennessee Titans, that's not an accident. The offensive coordinator is native Memphian Arthur Smith. 

    By Geoff Calkins January 16, 2021

• July 2020

  • Opinion: What’s in a name? In the case of ‘Redskins,’ an offense to others

    Redskins owner Dan Snyder for years ignored pleas to drop the moniker, telling USA Today in 2014 that he would never change it. Apparently Snyder has since watched Sean Connery’s last James Bond movie, “Never Say Never Again.” 

    By Otis Sanford July 16, 2020

  • Fred Smith helps make Washington’s NFL team do the right thing

    The team name in question, of course, is Redskins. It has been a standing insult to our country’s first peoples since the team was created in 1933. 

    By Michael Nelson July 06, 2020

  • FedEx requests NFL ‘team in Washington’ change its name

    FedEx Corp. chairman and CEO Frederick W. Smith is a 10% owner of the team.

    By Wayne Risher, Elle Perry July 02, 2020

• November 2019

  • Nelson: Fred Smith doesn’t know it, but he inspires my students

    The FedEx founder’s story is one every Memphian of a certain age has heard. But it’s a story – like the Christmas story – that never gets old. And like that story, it lies at the intersection of history and legend. 

    By Michael Nelson November 26, 2019

• June 2019

  • Nelson: Sam Phillips was a small-town boy with big-city ambition

    It’s called the music business for a reason, and from the beginning, Sam Phillips’ never-ceasing struggle was to make records he loved while keeping his shoestring operation financially solvent.

    By Michael Nelson June 18, 2019

• February 2019

  • From quality control to OC in the NFL, Arthur Smith works his way up

    Arthur Smith, son of FedEx founder Fred Smith, has worked his way into the title of Titans offensive coordinator, a rung-by-rung ascent with the Titans started in 2011 when he was a defensive quality control coach.

    By Don Wade February 10, 2019

• September 2018

  • FedEx marks change of guard in exits of Barksdale, Ducker

    FedEx marked departures of two lions of its 45-year history on Monday with standing ovations from shareholders and high praise from company leader Frederick W. Smith.

    By Wayne Risher September 24, 2018

  • FedEx cites TNT acquisition, flexibility in confident earnings forecast

    FedEx leaders stood strong Monday in the face of tariff threats, Amazon delivery plans and lower-than-expected, but robust quarterly profit growth.

    By Wayne Risher September 18, 2018

  • FedEx earnings surge, but fall short of expectations

    FedEx earnings rose nearly 38 percent in the June-August quarter from a year ago, but fell short of analysts’ expectations.

    By Wayne Risher September 17, 2018