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Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts and Cases, 16/e
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Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts and Cases, 16/e

by Fred R. David, Forest R. David
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
132h 28m
English
Pearson
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FedEx Corporation, 2015

FDX, www.fedex.com

Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, and founded in 1971, FedEx is one of the largest express freight delivery companies in the world, having about 57,000 drop-off locations, 700 aircraft, and 62,000 vehicles. FedEx does business in over 220 countries and employs over 220,000 workers. The company is comprised of subsidiaries: FedEx Ground, FedEx Express, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Services. Revenues for fiscal year-end of May 2014 were $45 billion, or about $10 billion less than top competitor United Parcel Service (UPS). In fact, rival UPS is spending $2 billion to expand internationally in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and is modernizing its U.S. operations to automatically sort packages. UPS expects ...

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