company name	FedEx Corporation
company logo
company type	Public company
traded as	S&P; 500 Component
foundation	Little Rock, Arkansas (1971) as Federal Express Corporation
founder	Frederick W. Smith
location	Memphis, Tennessee
area served	Worldwide
key people	Frederick W. Smith (Chairman, President & CEO)
industry	Courier
products	See complete products listing.
revenue	US$ 34.734 billion (FY 2010)}}

| operating_income = US$ 1.998 billion (FY 2010) | net_income = US$ 1.184 billion (FY 2010) | assets = US$ 24.902 billion (FY 2010) | equity = US$ 13.811 billion (FY 2010) | num_employees = 141,000 (May 2010) | subsid = FedEx Office, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, FedEx Custom Critical, FedEx Supply Chain, FedEx Trade Networks, FedEx Services | homepage = FedEx.com }}

FedEx Corporation (), originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used from 1973 until 2000.

History

FedEx Corporation is a Delaware corporation, incorporated October 2, 1997. FDX Corporation was founded in January 1998 with the acquisition of Caliber System Inc. by Federal Express. With the purchase of Caliber, FedEx started offering other services besides express shipping. Caliber subsidiaries included RPS, a small-package ground service; Roberts Express, an expedited shipping provider; Viking Freight, a regional, less than truckload freight carrier serving the Western United States; Caribbean Transportation Services, a provider of airfreight forwarding between the United States and the Caribbean; and Caliber Logistics and Caliber Technology, providers of logistics and technology solutions. FDX Corporation was founded to oversee all of the operations of those companies and its original air division, Federal Express. In the 1980's FedEx planned, but later abandoned, a joint service with British Airways to have BA fly a Concorde to Shannon, Ireland with FedEx packages onboard and then FedEx would have flown the packages subsonically to their delivery points in Europe. Ron Ponder, a vice president at the time, was in charge of this proposed venture. In January 2000, FDX Corporation changed its name to FedEx Corporation and re-branded all of its subsidiaries. Federal Express became FedEx Express, RPS became FedEx Ground, Roberts Express became FedEx Custom Critical, and Caliber Logistics and Caliber Technology were combined to make up FedEx Global Logistics. A new subsidiary called FedEx Corporate Services was formed to centralize the sales, marketing, customer service for all of the subsidiaries. In February 2000, FedEx acquired Tower Group International, an international logistics company. FedEx also acquired WorldTariff, a customs duty and tax information company, TowerGroup and WorldTariff were re-branded to form FedEx Trade Networks.

FedEx Corp. acquired privately held Kinko's Inc. in February 2004 and rebranded it FedEx Kinko's. The acquisition was made to expand FedEx retail access to the general public. After the acquisition, all FedEx Kinko's locations exclusively offered only FedEx shipping. In June 2008, FedEx announced that they would be dropping the Kinko's name from their ship centers, with FedEx Kinko's changing to FedEx Office.

In September 2004, FedEx acquired Parcel Direct, a parcel consolidator, and re-branded it FedEx SmartPost.

In December 2007, the Internal Revenue Service of the United States 'tentatively decided' that FedEx Ground Division might be facing a tax liability of $319 million for 2002, due to misclassification of its operatives as independent contractors. Reversing a 1994 decision which allowed FedEx to classify its operatives that own their own vehicles, the IRS is auditing the years 2003 to 2006, with a view to assessing whether similar misclassification of operatives has taken place. FedEx denies that any irregularities in classification have taken place, but is facing legal action from operatives claiming benefits that would have accrued had they been classified as employees.

On October 22, 2008, the Internal Revenue Service withdrew its tentative assessment of tax and penalties for the 2002 calendar year ($319 million plus interest) against FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (“FedEx Ground”) relating to the classification of FedEx Ground’s owner-operators for federal employment tax purposes.

In June 2009, FedEx began a campaign against UPS and the Teamsters union, accusing its competitor of receiving a bailout in an advertising campaign called "brown bailout". FedEx claims that signing the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill, which would let some of its workers unionize more easily (and, according to the Memphis-based company, "could expose [its] customers at any time to local work stoppages that interrupt the flow of their time-sensitive, high-value shipments”), is equivalent to giving UPS a 'bailout'. Independent observers have heavily criticized FedEx's wording, claiming that it was "an abuse of the term". FedEx staff are regulated under the Railway Labor Act.

Operating units and logos

FedEx is organized into operating units, each of which has its own version of the wordmark, designed by Lindon Leader of Landor Associates, of San Francisco, in 1994. The ''Fed'' is always purple and the ''Ex'' is in a different color for each division and grey for the overall corporation use. The original "FedEx" logo had the ''Ex'' in orange; it is now used as the FedEx Express wordmark. The FedEx wordmark is notable for containing a hidden right-pointing arrow in the negative space between the "E" and the "X", which was achieved by designing a proprietary font, based on Univers and Futura, to emphasize the arrow shape.

FEDEX OPERATING COMPANIES SCAC CODES FOR FEDEX:

The Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) is a unique code used to identify transportation companies. It is typically two to four alphabetic letters long. It was developed by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association in the 1960s to help the transportation industry for computerizing data and records.

FDE – FedEx Express FDEG – FedEx Ground – A package delivery company FDCC – FedEx Custom Critical FEXF – FedEx Freight FXFE – FedEx LTL Freight East FXFW – FedEx LTL Freight West (formerly VIKN – Viking) FXNL – FedEx Freight National (formerly Watkins) FedEx Express (Orange "Ex"): The original overnight courier services, providing next day air service within the United States and time-definite international service. FedEx Express operates the second largest civil aircraft fleet in the world (after Delta Air Lines) and the largest fleet of wide bodied civil aircraft; it also carries more freight than any other airline.

* Caribbean Transport Services: Until 2008, a part of ''FedEx Freight''. Provides airfreight forwarding services between the US mainland, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other Caribbean islands.

FedEx Ground (Green "Ex"): Guaranteed day-definite delivery within Canada and the United States at a cost savings as compared to time-definite FedEx Express. Uses a large fleet of trucks which are owned by the independent owner/operators and drivers are independent contractors who control individual delivery routes and territories. Formerly Roadway Package System (RPS).

FedEx Home Delivery: A division of FedEx Ground, specializing in residential delivery Tuesday through Saturday and offers delivery options to provide more flexibility for residential recipients. The logo includes a drawing of a dog carrying a package . FedEx Home Delivery only operates in the United States. To make up the difference, ''FedEx Ground'' in Canada performs the business deliveries and residential deliveries.

FedEx SmartPost: Consolidates parcels from merchants such as e-commerce and catalog companies and uses the United States Postal Service for the final delivery. Formerly the independent company Parcel Direct until FedEx acquired them for $120M in 2004.

FedEx Freight (Red "Ex"): Less than truckload (LTL) and other freight services. The second largest LTL carrier in the United States, with $4.5 billion in revenue for 2008.

FedEx Custom Critical (Blue "Ex"): Delivers urgent, valuable, or hazardous items using trucks and chartered aircraft. Freight not accepted for transport includes perishable food, alcohol, livestock, household goods, hazardous waste and money. Drivers are independent contractors who own their vehicles. Service in Mexico uses interline carriers. Formerly Roberts Cartage or Roberts Express.

* FedEx Freight, Inc: Formerly American Freightways and Viking Freight.

* FedEx Freight Canada: Formerly Watkins Canada Express.

* FedEx National LTL: Formerly Watkins Motor Lines.

FedEx Trade Networks (Yellow "Ex"): Provides services relating to customs, insurance, and transportation advice. Formerly C.J. Tower & Sons, then Tower Group International.

FedEx Supply Chain Services (Grey "Ex"): Provides logistics services including Critical Inventory Logistics, Transportation Management Services, Fulfillment Services, etc. Formerly Roadway Logistics System, then Caliber Logistics.

FedEx Corporate Services (Grey "Ex"): Provides global marketing, planning and information technology (IT) services for the other FedEx operating companies.

FedEx TechConnect: Offering a customer service toll-free telephone line for customer questions. It is operated by an automated operator then will prompt the user to a live agent for uses of tracking, claims, scheduling pick-ups (Express, Ground, Same Day, Custom Critical, Freight Express, and Freight LTL), compliments and complaints, locations (both staffed counter locations and drop-boxes), ordering supplies, setting up FedEx accounts, billing etc. Formerly FCIS or FedEx Customer Information Services.

FedEx Office (formerly FedEx Kinko's) (Blue "Ex"): The retail arm of the corporation, offers copying and digital printing, professional finishing, document creation, Internet access, computer rentals, videoconferencing, signs and graphics, direct mail, Web-based printing, and FedEx shipping. Formerly an independent company, known as Kinko's until it was acquired by FedEx in 2004 and rebranded to FedEx Kinko's. In June 2008 the company was finally rebranded as FedEx Office.

* FedEx Office and Print Centers: Provides services such as copying, printing, Internet access and FedEx shipping.

* FedEx Ship Centers: Provides a central location for FedEx customers to deposit their packages for shipping, also offering a self service photocopy and fax machine, office products for packing and shipping, boxes and packaging services. Formerly, these locations were called FedEx World Service Centers.

* Both FedEx Office and Print Centers and Ship Centers now offer Hold at Locations for FedEx Ground & FedEx Express shipments for easy pick up. Transfer to Office/Ship centers takes 1 to 2 business days (example: calling the customer service line one day prior to pick up. This ensures package is put with proper route of courier that services that area).

Political donations and lobbying

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, FedEx Corp is the 21st largest campaign contributor in the United States. The company has donated over $21 million since 1990, 45% of which went to Democrats and 55% to Republicans. Strong ties to the White House and members of Congress allow access to international trade and tax cut rebates as well as the rules of the business practices of the United States Postal Service. In 2001, FedEx sealed a $9 billion deal with the USPS to transport all of the post office's overnight and express deliveries.

In 2005, FedEx was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to sponsor the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.

During the first three months of 2010, FedEx spent nearly $4.9 million lobbying the federal government (UPS, FedEx's main competitor, spent $1.6 million on lobbying over the same period), a 4% increase from the $4.7 million spent during the last quarter of 2009, but more than twice what it spent on lobbying during the first quarter of 2009.

Advertising

Some of FedEx's best-known ad campaigns:

“When it Absolutely, Positively has to be there overnight” – 1978–1983

“It’s not Just a Package, It’s Your Business” – 1987–1988

“Our Most Important Package is Yours” – 1991–1994

“Absolutely, Positively Anytime” – 1995

“The Way the World Works,” 1996–1998

“Be Absolutely Sure,” 1998–2000

“This is a Job for FedEx,” 2001–2002

“Don’t worry, there’s a FedEx for that,” 2002–2003

“Relax, it’s FedEx,” 2004–2008

"We Understand," 2009–present

"WeLiveToDeliver" 2009–present

"Brown Bailout" 2009–present

"The World On Time" 2009–present

John Moschitta ad

In 1981, their advertising firm Ally & Gargano hired performer John Moschitta, Jr., known for his fast speech delivery, to do an ad for Federal Express titled "Fast Paced World". This single commercial would be cited years later by ''New York'' as one of the most memorable ads ever.

Motorsports

From 1997 to 2002, FedEx was the title sponsor of Champ Car World Series when it was known as CART. The series was known as the "CART FedEx Championship Series", which led to the official "Champ Car" designation in reference to the fact they were the FedEx Championship.

FedEx became the sponsor of the No.11 NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota owned by Joe Gibbs Racing in 2005. FedEx uses four (predominantly black) paint schemes to showcase its different products (Express, Freight, Ground, and Office), and in 2005 also ran a special scheme to promote a charity event at the FedEx St. Jude Classic golf tournament. The 11 car is driven by Denny Hamlin.

FedEx previously sponsored the Formula One team McLaren. Prior to that FedEx had sponsored Ferrari, Benetton (now Renault) and Williams F1.

FedEx does not currently sponsor any F1 team, but does have its brand logo placed on the McLaren crash suit collar.

Football

From 1989 to 2010, FedEx was the title sponsor of the Orange Bowl, played in Miami, FL. FedExField, home of the National Football League's Washington Redskins in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Other sports

FedEx sponsors FedExForum, home of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies and the University of Memphis men's basketball team.

Beginning in 2007, FedEx became the title sponsor of the FedEx Cup, a championship trophy for the PGA Tour.

See also

Freight company

ARAMEX (competitor)

BAX Global (competitor)

Cast Away (movie)

Courier

Choice Logistics (competitor)

DHL Express (competitor)

Package delivery

Purolator Courier (competitor)

TNT (competitor)

United Parcel Service (Primary competitor)

United States Postal Service (competitor and customer)

Volumetric weight

Brown Bailout

Top 100 US Federal Contractors

''Fedexia''

References

External links

;Corporate Homepages

FedEx – Index of national homepages

Official FedEx Blog

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John Moschitta Jr. (born August 6, 1954 in New York City) is a spokesperson and performer best known for his rapid speech delivery. He appeared in over 100 commercials as "The Micro Machines Man" as well as an award winning 1981 ad for FedEx.

Before losing the title to both Fran Capo (603 words per minute) and Steve Woodmore (637.4 words per minute) ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', Moschitta was credited in ''The Guinness Book of World Records'' as the World's Fastest Talker, with the ability to articulate 586 words per minute. Raised with five sisters, he often remarked that he needed to talk fast "just to get a word in edgewise."

Early work

At an early age, he acted in local community theater and school productions. In the 1970s, Moschitta attended Nassau Community College, where he studied theater and appeared in over 14 shows in two years, including a production of ''Room Service'' alongside Nassau alum Billy Crystal. Moschitta was also a contestant on the game show ''The $25,000 Pyramid'', in which he was paired with comedian Joan Rivers and won $10,500. He returned to the show on a number of occasions as a celebrity guest.

After several years working in television production in New York City, he was hired by Warner Communications as a producer and performer for QUBE, the world's first 2-way interactive cable system. QUBE premiered on December 1, 1977 in Columbus, Ohio, with eleven hours of live programming per day. Besides his local duties, Moschitta also hosted ''Nickel Flicks'' for the brand new Nickelodeon Network. The show aired nationwide three times per day, every day. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles.

FedEx commercial

In 1981, after appearances on several television shows, Moschitta appeared on the ABC TV series ''That's Incredible!'' Patrick Kelly and Michael Tesch, employees of the Ally & Gargano ad agency, hired Moschitta after seeing him on the show. In the ad, "Fast Paced World" for Federal Express, directed by Joe Sedelmaier, Moschitta played a fast-talking executive named Jim Spleen. Considered to be the most award-winning commercial in the history of advertising, it garnered six Clio awards, including Best Performance–Male award for Moschitta. Turn-of-the-century polls named it the Most Effective Campaign in the History of Advertising and named Moschitta the Most Effective Spokesperson. The 40th-anniversary issue of New York Magazine (10/06/2008) crowned it "The Most Memorable Advertisement Ever" ''Advertising Age'' ranked the ad number 11 among the top-100 advertising campaigns of the 20th century.

Other commercials

In addition to his commercials for Federal Express, he completed over 750 television and radio commercials, including national campaigns for Minute Rice, Quality Inn, Northwest Airlines, Olympus Camera, Mattel, Post Cereals, Tiger Games, Continental Airlines, Burger King, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, HBO, and Jet Blue. The "Great Cable Comparison" spot for HBO, in which he played a dozen characters, earned him his second CLIO recognition and a Silver Medal from the International Film and Television Festival of New York (1985). He played "The Micro Machines Man" in over 100 commercials that ran worldwide. Each one ended with the memorable tagline "Remember, if it doesn't say Micro Machines, it's not the real thing." Moschitta and various spots featuring his performances have won dozens of prestigious advertising awards. In 1996, Moschitta was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the Emmy organization) for his contribution to outstanding commercials.

Along with partners Jim Becker and Andy Mayer, John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta recorded a pugnacious take on ten classic novels in which he summarizes each book's entire story in approximately one minute. Included in this collection, entitled ''Ten Classics in Ten Minutes,'' are Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick''; William Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''; F Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''; Margaret Mitchell's ''Gone with the Wind''; and John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath''. Soon after, the team produced a second recording, ''Professor John Moschitta's Ten Minute University.'' It promised a traditional four-year college education in just ten minutes, and came with a mini-diploma. It featured rapidly-delivered, humorous, 60-second lectures on various subjects, such as comparative literature, physics, economics, psychology, and football. Both were originally released on audio cassette in the 1980s; they were released on CD in 2004, with accompanying books.

Television work

In 1990, Moschitta created the board game "Motor Mouth" with partners David Fuhrer and Mark Setteducati for Tiger Games. The game featured tongue twisters, a pair of plastic red lips that were passed around like a hot potato and an ever-ticking timer; the fast-paced game can also be found in other countries as "Tongue Tangle". An on-air radio version of the game was launched on the Game Show Network's GSN Radio station in December 2008. The advertising depicted him slowing down after introducing himself, then losing the game to family members due to a buzzer.

Moschitta has had regular, recurring or starring roles in many television shows, including ''Saved by the Bell''; ''General Hospital''; ''Madame's Place''; ''Matt Houston''; ''Trapper John, M.D.''; ''Zorro and Son''; ''The Half-Hour Comedy Hour''; ''The Smothers Brothers Show''; ''Sesame Street''; and ''Callahan''. In addition, he has made many guest-star appearances on shows such as ''Ally McBeal'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''The Big Easy'', ''Caroline in the City'', ''All That'', ''Cousin Skeeter'', ''The A-Team'', ''Sisters'', ''Spencer'', ''3-2-1 Contact'', and ''Square One TV''. He can be seen in the films ''Farce of the Penguins'', ''Queerspiricy'', ''Blankman'', ''Dick Tracy'', ''Going Under'', ''Dirty Laundry'', ''Starchaser: The Legend of Orin'', ''Ratboy'', and ''The Transformers: The Movie''.

He read the rules on the 55th Annual Academy Awards, sang and danced on the Emmy Awards with other commercial icons (Dick Wilson—Mr. Whipple, Jane Whithers—Josephine the Plumber, Jesse White (actor)—the Maytag Repair Man, Virginia Christine—Mrs. Olson, Patsy Garrett—the Chow Chow Chow woman, and others) and appeared on television specials and news shows such as ''Motown 25'', ''Bloopers'', ''Disneyland 30th Anniversary'', ''60 Minutes'', ''20/20'', ''Most X-treme'', ''Real People'', and co-hosted TV Land's Greatest Commercial with David Leisure (Joe Izusu). He was featured on VH1's 101 Favorite Stars and on I Love the 80s 3-D, for which he very quickly summarized each year's events. Celebrity game show appearances include The $100,000 Pyramid, Family Feud, Win, Lose or Draw, Family Challenge, Balderdash, Identity and Hollywood Squares. He has been a Jeopardy! answer and a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire question.

Moschitta has made appearances on over 1,000 television and radio talk shows including ''The Tonight Show'' (with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno); ''Oprah''; and ''Good Morning America''. In the corporate world, Moschitta has filmed videos or made personal appearances for over 350 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as many other companies. Moschitta has met and performed for eight US Presidents.

Other appearances

Moschitta appeared in the 1980s animated series ''The Transformers'' as the Autobot Blurr, a role which he reprised more than 20 years later for the Cartoon Network series ''Transformers Animated''. He has also provided voices for characters on ''Family Guy'', ''Garfield and Friends'', ''Pinky and the Brain'', ''Bobby's World'' and several episodes of ''Robot Chicken''. As an announcer, he was the voice of TLC's ''Your Place or Mine?'', PAX Network's ''Balderdash'', Game Show Network's ''Scrabble'' and the final season of ''Hollywood Squares'' in syndication.

Moschitta's first love is theater and his favorite shows and roles include ''The Pirates of Penzance'' (Major General), ''Never Gonna Dance'' (Pangborn), ''Sweeney Todd'' (Pirelli), ''The Last of the Red Hot Lovers'' (Barney), ''Rock and Roll Heaven: The Musical Comedy'' (Satan), ''The Music Man'' (Harold Hill), and ''Arsenic and Old Lace'' (Dr. Einstein)

For many years, he has been involved in several charities and not-for-profit organizations. Besides working hands-on with many groups, he often volunteers his time to conduct live auctions at their gala events. The ''Los Angeles Times'' states that, as far as celebrity auctioneers go, "no one can suck money out of a room like John Moschitta Jr." To date he has raised over 20 million dollars for charity using his fast-talking talents.

Moschitta also voices a one-time character named "Key-per" from ''Adventure Time'' in the episode "The Enchiridion".

See also

Tachylalia, term for extremely rapid speech

Fran Capo (fastest female speaker)

References

External links

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