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Topic: Fred Smith
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February 2024
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Vote for the high school boys basketball player of the week, Week 8
Standouts from Briarcrest, CBHS, Hillcrest, Ridgeway and Sheffield are up for consideration this week.
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January 2024
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Calkins: Veatch on the stadium, the realignment — and the Smiths’ gift
Laird Veatch, the University of Memphis athletic director, is finally getting his hands on a football stadium and $120 million. Now all he has to do is raise another $50 million and figure out how to rebuild his new stadium on the fly.
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November 2023
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Calkins: Fred Smith and family ride to the rescue (with $50 million) to forge a stunning stadium deal
“Who put an end to the stadium fracas? Fred Smith and family, of course.”
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FedEx founder to help fund Liberty Stadium renovations; U of M could control stadium
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How the proposed Liberty Stadium deal will work and could unlock FedExForum
The complex deal clears the path to focus on FedExForum improvements.
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FedEx founder to help fund Liberty Stadium renovations; U of M could control stadium
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FedEx founder to help fund Liberty Stadium renovations; U of M could control stadium
In something of a domino effect, the Smith family donation for the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium will free up cash for the Memphis Grizzlies and the City of Memphis to do renovations at FedExForum.
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Calkins: Fred Smith rides to the rescue (with $50 million) to forge a stunning stadium deal
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August 2023
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FedEx CEO to earn a new base salary of more than $1M
The increase will bring Raj Subramaniam’s base salary, first set in 2022 months after he took leadership of the company, from $1.3 million to $1.45 million.
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April 2023
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FedEx at 50: Why Memphis? An answer through the fog
Fred Smith has given several reasons for moving his young company to Memphis: the city’s central location, help from the Memphis International Airport and the area’s operational weather.
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January 2023
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FedEx’s Fred Smith says ‘Devotion’ story ‘just struck a chord with me’
The FedEx founder financed the film, about the first Black aviator to complete the U.S. Navy’s basic flight training program, and is donating the movie’s proceeds to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.
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November 2022
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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.
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October 2022
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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.
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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.
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September 2022
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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.
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July 2022
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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.
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June 2022
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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.
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May 2022
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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.
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April 2022
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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.
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March 2022
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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.
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July 2021
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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.
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January 2021
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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.
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July 2020
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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.”
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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.
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FedEx requests NFL ‘team in Washington’ change its name
FedEx Corp. chairman and CEO Frederick W. Smith is a 10% owner of the team.
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November 2019
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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.
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June 2019
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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.
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