Bangkok--9 May--Grayling (Thailand)
Company Continues to Connect Asia Pacific with Innovative Business Solutions
The Company that launched the overnight delivery industry is forty years old.
On April 17, 1973, FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), then known as Federal Express, began operations at the Memphis International Airport with the delivery of 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities. Today, FedEx through its four operating companies handles more than 10 million shipments each day via a high-tech network designed to connect customers by air, land and sea in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide.
“We have a long, proud history of delivering exceptional customer service and providing access to global trade opportunities for our customers in Asia Pacific,” said David Cunningham, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. “For our more than 18,000 FedEx team members in Asia Pacific, this milestone is only the beginning. We will continue to deliver the Purple Promise of making every customer experience outstanding for the next forty years and beyond.”
To commemorate these decades of success, FedEx is observing a Global Month of Service in April, honoring team members and communities with volunteer projects across the region and around the world.
Forty Years of Service
Extending a long-standing tradition of service, team members around the world are organizing and volunteering in support of their favorite organizations in April. FedEx will be further supporting these efforts by distributing $40,000 in non-profit grants.
In Asia Pacific, more than300 team members are participating in volunteer activities in China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam this month. They will be working alongside local nonprofits to carry out reading, safety, and mobile medical clinic programs for children, as well as sustainability projects in the community.
To learn more about how FedEx team members have come together throughout the company’s history to address need in their communities and beyond, visit www.fedexcares.com.
FedEx: Yesterday and Today
Since launching operations in 1973, FedEx has grown into both a driver and indicator of the global economy, linking 99 percent of the world’s GDP. Today, FedEx encompassesdiverse yet complementary businesses that cover a full range of logistics and business solutions designed for the needs of today’s global and local commerce.
The company that made its mark with the overnight delivery has adapted to meet the changing needs of its customers over the past four decades, pioneering advances in the process of moving and tracking goods around the world.Its portfolio now includes a robust variety of shipping options including Ground, Freight and Ocean-based services, as well as business solutions designed to meet the needs of customers from start-ups to international corporations, and laid the groundwork for a sophisticated network capable of moving millions of packages around the world.
Forty Years of Innovation
In 1978, FedEx founder and chairman Fred Smith famously said, “The information about the package is just as important as the package itself.” The company’s firm belief in the power of information and access—reflected in Smith’s quote—is at the very core of every innovative solution it has brought to market since 1973, for example, the first PC-based automated shipping system, FedEx PowerShip, in 1984; the first transportation Web site offering online package status tracking in 1994; the first hybrid-electric truck in 2003; launch of SenseAwareSM, a multi-sensor device paired with web-based monitoring for near-real-time shipment insight in 2009.
Today, FedEx is taking innovation to a new level by investing in the transformation of its IT system networks into a single, hybrid-cloud platform that supports all of the company’s IT functions — processing more than 15 petabytes of data daily and growing.
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