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In 1989 the company acquired Flying Tigers[?], an international cargo airline. In January 1998 Federal Express acquired Caliber System, Inc, bringing in a number of units. It acquired Viking Freight and American Freightways.
It is now organized into a number of operating units:
- FedEx Express (The original overnight courier services)
- FedEx Freight East - Less than truckload[?] (LTL) services (formerly American Freightways)
- FedEx Freight West - (formerly Viking Freight)
- FedEx Ground - including slower speed, heavier freight services to businesses and homes (formerly Roadway Package Services or RPS)
- FedEx Custom Critical - non-stop door-door delivery (formerly Roberts Express)
- FedEx Trade Networks - trade and shipping planning on non-FedEx carriers
- FedEx Services - an internal to FedEx unit
Advertising:
- The company made famous the line "Absolutely, Positively" for their overnight service.
Miscellania:
- The movie Cast Away is based on a true story about a Federal Express employee who survived a plane crash.
- Company operating officer Jim Barksdale[?] went on to lead Netscape.
- "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." A Yale University management professor comments on Fred Smith's class paper proposing what became Federal Express.
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