To celebrate the Christmas season, E.O. Woods Intermediate School, a Texas “Exemplary” campus, participates in the Annual Reindeer Games. Included in the festivities is a door-decorating contest. Connie Pritchett, a former FedEx Express courier, chose “Santa Baby Do You Need Some Help?” as her theme for this year's contest.
It’s unfortunate that the United States, which has led the capitalistic world for so long, is woefully uncompetitive in the area of corporate tax policy. We have the second highest corporate tax rate among all Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) countries and many other tax policies that simply make it difficult for U.S. companies to compete with those outside the U.S. Is this important to you? You bet — studies, such as one done by William C.
A story about FedEx Office was just published in BusinessWeek. I appreciate the interest in our company. We have a great story to tell when you consider the way we have evolved from Kinko's Copies into FedEx Office over the past 38 years to reflect and meet changes in customer needs and expectations and evolution of technology.
What on earth is "strategic" philanthropy? Isn't "philanthropy" just helping people and communities out of the "goodness of our hearts"? Sure it is, but with more than a million registered non-profits in the U.S. alone, and with limited resources, how does a global corporation with a commitment to philanthropy go about picking and choosing which charities to support?
Today FedEx announced earnings for the second quarter of our fiscal year 2009. As you can see from that announcement, we face serious economic challenges and must take immediate steps to minimize job losses and protect the long-term financial health of our company. We are doing exactly that with several significant actions that impact all of us:
