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Mappa di localizzazione. Modifica dati su Wikidata · Manuale. Commanders Field (nome originale Jack Kent Cooke Stadium e poi FedEx Field) è uno stadio situato a Landover, in Maryland. Attualmente ospita le partite dei Washington Commanders della NFL .
On July 23, 2019, FedExField also hosted a match between Real Madrid and Arsenal. The match ended 2-2, and Real Madrid won the penalty shootout. Commanders Field was being considered as a 2026 FIFA World Cup venue and was up against 16 other venues around the United States, including M&T Bank Stadium in nearby Baltimore ; with the ...
FedExField. View of the inside of FedExField. FedExField is an American football stadium located in Landover, Maryland that serves as the home for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). They first started to build the stadium on March 13, 1996.
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Foundation and early history
The company was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1971 as Federal Express Corporation by Frederick W. Smith, a graduate of Yale University. He drew up the company's concept in a term paper at Yale, in which he called for a system specifically designed for urgent deliveries. While his professor did not think much of the idea, Smith pressed on. He began formal operations in 1973, when he moved operations to Memphis. Smith said he chose Memphis International Airportfor being near the mean popu...
Reorganization and Caliber acquisition
On October 2, 1997, FedEx reorganized as a holding company, FDX Corporation, a Delaware corporation. The new holding company began operations in January 1998, with the acquisition of Caliber System Inc. by Federal Express. With the purchase of Caliber, FedEx started offering other services besides express shipping. Caliber subsidiaries included RPS, a small-package ground service; Roberts Express, an expedited shipping provider; Viking Freight, a regional, less-than-truckload freight carriers...
21st century
FedEx Corp. acquired privately held Kinko's, Inc. in February 2004 and re-branded it FedEx Kinko's. The acquisition was made to expand FedEx's retail access to the general public. After the acquisition, all FedEx Kinko's locations offered only FedEx shipping. In June 2008, FedEx announced that they would be dropping the Kinko's name from their ship centers; FedEx Kinko's would now be called FedEx Office.In September 2004, FedEx acquired Parcel Direct, a parcel consolidator, and re-branded it...
FedEx operates many different types of vehicles to deliver packages. They operate planes, trucks,vans and drones. According to the FedEx website, the company has over 210,000 motorized vehicles. 1. FedEx McDonnell Douglas DC-10 2. A FedEx truck in the United States 3. A FedEx van in Poland 4. An older FedEx truck 5. A FedEx truck in Poland 6. A Fed...
FedEx's primary competitor in the United States and most of its international destinations is United Parcel Service (UPS). Both companies employ generally similar strategies; both companies' largest hubs for its air delivery are in the southern United States (Memphis for FedEx and Louisville for UPS), both offer overnight, 2-day, and ground deliver...
Logo
The FedEx logo is a wordmark designed in 1994 by Lindon Leader of Landor Associates, of San Francisco. It consists of Fed in purple and Ex in orange. The FedEx wordmark is notable for containing a subliminal right-pointing arrow in the negative space between the "E" and the "X", which was achieved by designing a proprietary font, based on Univers and Futura, to emphasize the arrow shape.Leader believed the logo promoted FedEx as "getting from point A to point B reliably with speed and precisi...
Advertising
FedEx advertising slogans have included: 1. "When it Absolutely, Positively has to be there overnight" – 1978–1983 2. "It's not Just a Package, It's Your Business" – 1987–1988 3. "Our Most Important Package is Yours" – 1991–1994 4. "Absolutely, Positively Anytime" – 1995 5. "The Way the World Works," 1996–1998 6. "Be Absolutely Sure," 1998–2000 7. "This is a Job for FedEx," 2001–2002 8. "Don't worry, there's a FedEx for that," 2002–2003 9. "Relax, it's FedEx," 2004–2008 10. "The World On Time...
Reputation
The firm was named by Fortunemagazine as one of the top 100 companies to work for in 2013, citing the company's choice to downsize with voluntary buyouts rather than involuntary layoffs.
Board of directors
As of April 2022[update], the FedEx Corporation board of directors is: 1. Marvin Ellison: Chairman, president and CEO, Lowe's Companies, Inc. 2. Tricia Griffith: President and CEO, The Progressive Corporation 3. Kimberly A. Jabal: Former CFO, Unity Technologies 4. Shirley Ann Jackson: President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5. R. Brad Martin: Chairman, RBM Ventures 6. Fred Perpall: CEO, The Beck Group 7. Joshua Cooper Ramo: Chairman and CEO, Sornay LLC 8. Susan Schwab: Professor Emerita,...
Finance
For the fiscal year 2020, FedEx reported earnings of US$1.286 billion, with an annual revenue of US$69.217 billion, a decline of 0.7% over the previous fiscal cycle. FedEx's shares traded at over $273 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$2,459 billion in December 2020. FedEx ranked No. 50 in the 2018 Fortune 500list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Environmental practices and initiatives
In early March 2021, FedEx announced plans to make its operations carbon-neutral by 2040. It's investing $2 billion in sustainable energy initiatives, including $100M for a new Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and upgrading its aircraft and ground transportation fleets. It will be the first customer to take delivery of GM's electric Zevo delivery vans, as part of the goal of an all-electric ground fleet by 2040. FedEx's initiatives to be carbon-neutral by 2040 will allow them to reduce...
Labor relations
In December 2007, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service"tentatively decided" the FedEx Ground Division might be facing a tax liability of $319 million for 2002, due to misclassification of its operatives as independent contractors. Reversing a 1994 decision which allowed FedEx to classify its operatives that own their own vehicles as independent contractors, the IRS audited the years 2003 to 2006, with a view to assessing whether similar misclassification of operatives had taken place. FedEx deni...
Allegations of controlled substances distribution
On July 17, 2014, FedEx was indicted for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in cooperation with the Chhabra-Smoley Organization and Superior Drugs. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, "FedEx is alleged to have knowingly and intentionally conspired to distribute controlled substances and prescription drugs, including Phendimetrazine (Schedule III); Ambien, Phentermine, Diazepam, and Alprazolam (Schedule IV), to customers who had no legitimate medical need for them based on...
Illegal parking criticism
Safe streets activists have criticized FedEx, along with other parcel delivery services, for frequently illegally parking their vehicles in bike lanes while making deliveries, a practice that endangers cyclists. They were criticized alongside peers in a letter from Washington, D.C.'s transportation agencyin 2018.
November 5, 2006, FedexField: During the fourth quarter, the game was tied 19–19 (due partly to a missed two-point conversion by the Cowboys). With 31 seconds to go, the Redskins' recently acquired kicker, Nick Novak , missed a 49-yard field goal wide right.
FedExField (nome originale Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) è uno stadio situato a Landover, in Maryland. Attualmente ospita le partite dei Washington Commanders della NFL . Quick facts: FedExField, Informazioni generali, Stato, Ubi...
FedExField was a patriotically and emotionally charged atmosphere as the two rivals took the field. Led by Eli Manning, the Giants took an early 7–0 lead in the first quarter. Washington responded on a Tim Hightower touchdown run in the second.
