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4/16/21
USA - Daily Gun violence continues: 8 FedEx employees killed in shooting at Indianapolis facility; suspect also dead - by Phil Helsel, Kurt Chirbas and Elisha Fieldstadt
Four others who were shot and another who was injured were taken to hospitals, officials said, adding that some may have been privately transported to medical facilities.
No law enforcement officers were hurt in the shooting carried out by a former employee who last worked at the facility in the fall, authorities said Friday afternoon.
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7/14/08
Bloomberg.com: FedEx May Buy Dutch TNT to Add Europe Parcel - by Jeroen Molenaar and Sarah Thompson
FedEx May Buy Dutch TNT to Add Europe Parcel - by Jeroen Molenaar and Sarah Thompson
FedEx Corp., the second-largest U.S. package-shipping company, is in preliminary talks to take over TNT NV, the Financial Times reported. Buying the Dutch operator would make FedEx the No. 2 express-delivery service in Europe. Rising fuel costs and an economic decline revived merger discussion between FedEx and TNT, the U.K. newspaper said today, without citing anyone. Pieter Schaffels, a spokesman for TNT, and Jess Bunn of FedEx both declined to comment when contacted by telephone and e-mail today. A buyout ``makes sense,'' said Philip Scholte, an analyst at Rabo Securities in Amsterdam. ``You just link the two networks together.''