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Fortune
Ruth Umoh

EXPLAINED: Why fedex freight left its 90 billion parent company | Vintage Vibes

(Credit: Marvin Samuel Tolentino Pineda)

At what point does a business need a different operating model? FedEx Freight CEO John Smith believes his company has reached that point.

The newly independent company, which spun off from FedEx earlier this month, generates roughly $9 billion in annual revenue and operates one of the largest less-than-truckload networks in North America. Until recently, however, it sat inside a parent company approaching $90 billion in annual revenue.

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