...PROFILE FedEx Corporation REFERENCE CODE: 3FB515C6-44D5-4A30-BC7E-556271B4A308 PUBLICATION DATE: 28 Feb 2013 www.marketline.com COPYRIGHT MARKETLINE. THIS CONTENT IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OR DISTRIBUTED. FedEx Corporation TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview..............................................................................................3 Key Facts...............................................................................................................3 SWOT Analysis.....................................................................................................4 FedEx Corporation © MarketLine Page 2 FedEx Corporation Company Overview COMPANY OVERVIEW FedEx Corporation (FedEx or “the company”) offers overnight courier services, freight services, logistics solutions, and business support services. The company is one of the largest express transportation companies, delivering small packages worldwide. FedEx is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee and employed 101,000 permanent full-time and 48,000 permanent part-time employees as of May 31, 2012. The company recorded revenues of $42,680 million during the financial year ended May 2012 (FY2012), an increase of 8.6% over FY2011. The operating profit of the company was $3,186 million in FY2012, an increase of 34% over FY2011. Its net profit was $2,032 million in FY2012, an increase of 39.9% over FY2011. KEY FACTS Head Office FedEx Corporation...
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...our team to create a poster and present the analysis, and recommend for a future strategies, I need to understand some theories that are required in the case. After went through the textbook and several write up about SLEPT and SWOT analysis. SLEPT is one of the analysis that is frequently used by business analyst for examining the marco environment of the organisation that the business operations in. Most of the time, companies are unable to control the external environment factors but it can effectively have better understanding in it so that they can either exploit the situation to its advantage or minimise the impact that is to its disadvantage. The factors that influence the macro environment are SLEPT – Social, Legal, Economical, Political and Technological. In order to help me relate to the case study, I had posted myself with a few questions. 1) How will the factors impact business? The macro environment factors affect FedEx’s competition advantage in the market that it operates in. As a foreign international company, the political and legal factors are especially important for the business. Every change in policy and regulation may affect the way the business operates. The economical factor is also critical to the success of FedEx as the growth of ecommerce in China will bring demands to the logistic business. 2) How will this analysis help the company? Keeping abreast on the changes in the external environment allows FedEx to react more quickly to the needs and alteration...
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...Silva Colin Green Sandra Vargas Melanie Rivera Jhael De Alba History Founded in 1971 by Frederick W. Smith. First Investment 1980’s: – FedEx reached its maturing stage. – First US company to reach $1 billion in revenues. FedEx handles 3.3 million packages General Environment Global Provider of: - Transportation - e-commerce - supply chain management FedEx an Innovator company: - Overnight package and letter delivery - 10:30 am next day delivery - Saturday delivery service • • • • • • Cost effective. Alternative for small packages. Distance and time are wider. Most familiar service. Handles millions of shipments. Delivers in 1 to 2 business days. • • • • • • When customers need it now. 24hrs. 7 days a week, including nights, weekends and holidays. Heavy weight shipments. Less than truck load (LTL) freight. 600 miles next day delivery. 1,600+ miles second day delivery. • • • Custom brokerage. Electronic custom clearance. Speed shipments across the border. External Environment Household name Competitive environment Global Presence IT advances Strong market position in air freight Competitive Environment World wide presence Dominates ground services domestically High market share in the US Acquired full ownership of Mail Boxes, etc. Intense competition with FedEx Competitive Environment Recent acquire of ground services Specialize in air freight deliveries Global presence Other mergers, the effects...
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...Assignment 2: FedEx Strategic Options and Opportunities Anthony Anderson JWI 540: Strategy Dr. John Dorociak 8/3/2014 Executive Summary This paper will provide discussion and analysis concerning various strategic options and opportunities as they relate to the FedEx Corporation (FDX) in their current industry market. Competition will be assessed to create an understanding of the current landscape of the industry from the perspective of traditional, potential, and oblique competitors in FDX’s current industry. FDX will then be analyzed utilizing the SWOT model that will be utilized to identify three strategic options in the current market that will foster corporate growth in the future. Once identified, each strategic option will be evaluated via three criteria based on three simple questions as follows: Is it big? Is it us? Is it time? After this evaluation is complete there will be one strategic option selected that best meets the selection criteria in totality. FedEx Corporation: The Competition Competition in the transportation market is intense both domestically and globally and is the heart of every organizations strategy within this industry. Freight and courier services are at a high demand throughout the world due to growing distribution channels, technology, and a marked increase in demand. Market volume and value are...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION An American global courier delivery service, Federal Express (FedEx) Corporation was founded by Frederick W. Smith in 1971 (Ferrell & Hartline, 2011). Formerly known as FDX Corporation, its headquarter is in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. There are four segments that the company is divided into which are FedEx Express Segment, FedEx Ground Segment, FedEx Freight Segment and FedEx Services Segment. The FedEx Express Segment includes two companies which are FedEx Express and FedEx Trade Networks. In the FedEx Ground Segment includes FedEx Ground and FedEx SmartPost, For FedEx Freight Segment consists of FedEx Freight, FedEx Custom Critical and Caribbean Transportation Services. As for FedEx Services Segment comprise of FedEx Services, FedEx Office, FedEx Customer Information Services as well as FedEx Global Supply Chain Services. FedEx has experience tremendous success domestically and internationally since it began operations, however FedEx is still does not has the main market share in both markets as UPS dominates the ground delivery and DHL dominates the international express delivery. So in this paper, we will be answering three questions regarding FedEx’s methods of expansion, reasons for its global operations problems, SWOT considerations, competitive landscape and recommendations to encroach upon the two competitors. 2.0 QUESTION 1 Evaluate the methods used by FedEx to grow domestically and internationally. Why do you think that the company initially...
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...Green Sandra Vargas Melanie Rivera Jhael De Alba History Founded in 1971 by Frederick W. Smith. First Investment 1980’s: – FedEx reached its maturing stage. – First US company to reach $1 billion in revenues. FedEx handles 3.3 million packages General Environment Global Provider of: - Transportation - e-commerce - supply chain management FedEx an Innovator company: - Overnight package and letter delivery - 10:30 am next day delivery - Saturday delivery service • • • • • • • • • • • • Most familiar service. Handles millions of shipments. Delivers in 1 to 2 business days. Heavy weight shipments. Less than truck load (LTL) freight. 600 miles next day delivery. 1,600+ miles second day delivery. • • • Custom brokerage. Electronic custom clearance. Speed shipments across the border. Cost effective. Alternative for small packages. Distance and time are wider. When customers need it now. 24hrs. 7 days a week, including nights, weekends and holidays. External Environment Household name Competitive environment Global Presence IT advances Strong market position in air freight Competitive Environment World wide presence Dominates ground services domestically High market share in the US Acquired full ownership of Mail Boxes, etc. Intense competition with FedEx Competitive Environment Recent acquire of ground services Specialize in air freight deliveries Global presence Other mergers,...
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...FedEx Packages Marketing for Overnight Success Answer the following questions regarding the FedEx case on page 58 of the textbook. 1. Which three environmental forces are likely to have the greatest effects on FedEx? 2. What are the major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) associated with FedEx? 3. Is there evidence that FedEx has attempted to adopt and use the marketing concept? Explain. 4. Evaluate FedEx's mission statement. Explain the major strengths and weaknesses of the mission statement. This assignment is due by midnight, Central time on Sunday, at the end of week one. No late assignments will be accepted without advance permission from the instructor. On this and every other case assignment you must meet the minimum standards for depth and organization. Each case analysis that is under 500 words will receive a zero. Each case also must have a minimum of 3 outside references, not counting the text or the subject of the case (in the week one case, for example, do not use the FedEx website as a reference). No need to list the course textbook as a reference, it will be used for every case. Also, do not use Wikipedia as a reference since it is not review by experts but rather it is normally edited postings from the public and not appropriate as a resource for an MBA course. A Sample Case Analysis has been attached here for your review. This sample gives you a clear example of how a case analysis should be delivered. It is...
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...cultures, cross-organizational collaboration on multiple levels there are many great challenges. Language and cultural differences sometimes cause communication difficulties, and some unexpected problems sometimes also can let a person off guard. There will be trouble in any teams which will make the team work uneffectively so that we need arrangement and leadership. In a word, we need to study some successful experience about international team management and learn to overcome the difficulties and solve the problems to creat more benefits. The assignment main contain three parts. Firstly, there will be given some theories about teamwork and international management. Secondly, there will be a successful team case and some comments and analysis. I. What is international team? Team with Diversity of Countries Members Globalization is the main point that we must take into account in a company in order to succeed with cultural diversity....
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...Company Analysis: FedEx Iveta Stoycheva MNGT 370 Dr. Charles Funk 12/07/2010 FedEx Corporation specializes in overnight delivery of high-priority packages, documents, and heavy freight. The company created the overnight air-express industry virtually singlehandedly in the 1970s; its success was such that by the 1990s it faced the sincerest form of flattery: increasing competition from rival carriers However, FedEx's continued mastery of logistics and its ability to track packages during the shipping process has enabled it to retain its leadership role in the express air cargo industry, as well as act as a moving warehouse for numerous corporate and individual customers. It operates in 211 countries, and serves all of the United States, providing 24-to-48-hour delivery of valuable, time-sensitive cargo to any destination worldwide. FedEx was founded as Federal Express Corporation in 1971, by 28-year- old Memphis, Tennessee, native Frederick W. Smith. Smith, a former Marine pilot, originally outlined his idea for an overnight delivery service in a term paper he wrote for a Yale University economics class. He felt that air freight had different requirements than air passenger service and that a company specializing in air freight rather than making it an add-on to passenger service would find a lucrative business niche. Speed was more important than cost, in Smith's view, and access to smaller cities was essential. His strategies...
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...The Battle for Value, 2004 FedEx Corp. vs. UPS, Inc. FedEx was form in economic class by Fred Smith in Yale University. In 1971, Smith invested 4 million dollars of his own capital and raises an addition of 91 million dollars to launch the firm. His key innovation was a hub and spoke distribution pattern. By 2003, FedEx owned 50,000 ground vehicles, 625 aircraft, 216500 employees and shipped more than 5.4 million packages daily. The company had $15.4 billion in assets, $830 million net income, and generated $22.5 billion revenues. UPS was founded in 1907 by Jim Casey. He started a bicycle messenger called American Messenger Company and changed its name to United Parcel Service of America in 1929. The success key of UPS was efficiency. UPS was the largest package-delivery company in the world. Both ground and air parcel delivery was the primary business. Gradually, the company offered more specialized transportation and logistics service. By 2003, UPS owned 88,000 ground trucks, 583 planes and 360,000 employees. | FedEx | UPS | Ground Vehicles | 50,000 | 88,000 | Aircraft | 625 | 583 | Employees | 216,000 | 360,000 | Packages shipped/ day | 5.4 million | 13 million | Assets | $15.4 billion | $28.9 billion | Net Income | $830 million | $2.9 billion | Revenue | $22.5 billion | $33.4 billion | Problem: Market observers of the air-package delivery industry considered how FedEx and UPS would develop. Was the performance of the companies in recent years predictive...
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...------------------------------------------------- Fedex SWOT analysis July 14th, 2010 webmaster Leave a comment Go to comments Federal Express Corporation (Fedex) was established in 1973. Since then, Fedex had become a global logistics and supply chain management. The company had invested heavily in information technology systems. It had a powerful technical architecture that had the potential to pioneer in Internet commerce. However, there are some difficulties, the company’s logistic and supply chain operations have trouble to keep up the company’s image, The transportation volume growth was slowing down because the competitive industry was too intense. In early 2000 The company announced major reorganization within the entire Fedex family. Each five subsidiary companies was to function independently but to compete collectively. In order to analyze the situation carefully an external and internal analysis of the company and industry must be done so a complete picture of the industry could be understood. External analysis: Determinants of threat of new competitors: The global express transportation and logistic industry has a very high barrier to entry because it requires enormous capital resources, economies of scale and brand identity. Large firms have a cost and performance advantage in the industry. All of the established firms had a very strong foothold in the global market as they have established brand identities. There are economies of scale in the industry:...
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...Calyx & Corolla: Case Analysis Calyx & Corolla is a newly founded venture in the fresh flowers selling business. With two and a half years’ experiences and practices, it has consummated over 150,000 transactions, yielding revenues in excess of $10 million and successfully pioneered the concept of selling fresh flowers by mail. However, the managers of the company, Fran Wilson and Ann Lee, are reassessing the firm’s long-term growth strategy. Although the business achieved a huge success in such a short time, it is hard for the business to grow and generate more revenues when facing with growing challenges. Hence, the management is thinking of a more aggressive growth strategy to stimulate the business and increase the sales. In order to conclude a better strategy, an analysis of the industry would be necessary to help understand the company’s current situation. In 1990, retail flower and plant sales were almost a $9 billion business in the United States. Most of these flowers are planted domestically while several types of flowers, including carnations, roses and a variety of other flowers, are imported from other parts of the world. Although there are some large sellers in the industry, major sellers are still small, family-operated companies. Usually, growers sell their flowers to distributors. And then distributors sent flowers to different wholesalers and wholesalers then sent flowers to florists. This whole process will add a 500% to 700% markup to the final selling...
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...SWOT Analysis for FedEx The Internal Environment: Strengths FedEx has a strong customer base and a great reputation. It has great reliability with guaranteed overnight delivery. It has no restriction on the size of packages it ships. It guarantees the safety of the shipments for the customers and offers a claim process online if there are any problems. FedEx has great market presence with service to more than 220 countries and territories (N/A) throughout the world. FedEx has online services to make the shipping process simple and easy to use. Internet access to parcels’ whereabouts in real-time as the parcel moves to its destination and automated custom clearance to speed up the deliveries. The internet website provides up-to-date news information on all things that matter to their customers. Well-trained employees handle the packages throughout the service channels on the ground and in the air every day. FedEx partnering with Canada Post to develop Priority™ Worldwide- international priority service sold through Canada Post outlets. Weaknesses FedEx has high maintenance expenses on the transportation it uses to ship packages. With over 637 cargo planes and 43,500 vans delivering packages every day (Williams, Kondra, & Vibert, 2008), FedEx is susceptible to the breakdown of the transportation it uses to ship. It has a tight delivery time frame with its guaranteed overnight delivery service. If one of its planes or vans is not on time, gets held at a border crossing...
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...move toward closer economic integration in Western Europe.This situation offerred a good opportunity for the booming demand of international transimisiion. Therefore most of the air express companies started to pay attention to international air cargo business.According to forecasts, the market for international air express is expected to grow at approximately 18% annually from 1996 to 2016. 1995-1996 the Four Big Players In the business of international air express there are four main companies did well in this area and kept most shares of the market. They are DHL,TNT,FedEx and UPS. [pic] DHL DHL held the most shares compared with other company, with the investment of Lufthansa and Japan Airlines,the top five air freight haulers in the world,DHL got huge strengths. TNT TNT was controled by an Australian conglomerate, its shares declined from 18% in 1990 to 12% in 1995, with the competition. FedEx |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Enough funds |Lack of experience in international market | |A big fleet and landing rights by acquisition | | |Good experience in air express | | |Opportunity ...
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...[pic] Introduction FedEx Corporation (FedEx) is a US based company mainly engaged in offering logistics solutions. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides transportation, e-commerce and business services under the FedEx brand. The major benefit of using the company is its ability to provide “day-certain” service to every business address in the US and Canada, as well as provide “time-certain” delivery to those areas within one to three business days. The company was founded in 1973 by Frederick W. Smith, whose vision was to provide overnight delivery services for his clients. The company is divided into eight major divisions: [pic] The mission of FedEx is to provide superior financial returns for shareowners by providing high value-added supply chain, transportation, business and related information services through focused operating companies. Customer needs will be met in the highest quality manner appropriate to each market segment served. FedEx strives to develop gratifying relationships with its employees, partners and suppliers. Safety will be the first consideration in all operations and all activities will be conducted to the highest ethical and professional standards (FedEx Corporation – Financial and Strategic Analysis Review, 2011). FedEx’s vision is a world where goods and information move quickly and seamlessly. The company’s goal is to connect the world in such a way that consumers will view them as a provider of convenient...
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