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Fedex corporation
DONE BY :
FAWAZ SALIM (10 –BBA –FR- 001)
ARUN RAJAN (10- BBA – FR- 009)
JENNETTE RAO (10-BBA –FR-19)
NIDHIN ANAND (10-BBA-FR-002)
DAY 1
Fedex corporation is a logistics service company based in Memphis , United States. It was originally known as federal express until 2000. It specializes in e-commerce, transportation and business services. It also provides different types of shipping services. It operates across 375 destinations, in more than 220 countries and territories.
It is a public enterprise part of courier industries. In 2008, it recorded a net revenue of about $21.6 billion.(2010). It has a workforce of more than 141000 employees worldwide. Fedex connects 90% of world’s gdp in 3 days. Its assets value upto around 25.633 billion.
History
January 1998: FDX corporation was founded with the acquisition of caliber
system inc.
January 2000: FDX corporation changed to FedEX corporation.
February 2000: it acquired tower group international, a logistics company.
It also acquired World Tariff, a customs duty and tax information
company.
February 2004: it brought kinko’s inc. and rebranded it as fedex kinkos.
September 2004: it acquired parcel direct, a parcel consolidator and rebranded it...