FedEx Taps 'Globe Trotters'

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NEW YORK FedEx said today that it has signed five players from the National Basketball Association to promote its international shipping capabilities via a marketing campaign, “Go around the world with FedEx.”

The company’s “FedEx Global Leaders” are all players of foreign nationality: Andrei Kirilenko (Utah Jazz/Russia) and Manu Ginobili (San Antonio Spurs/Argentina), both of whom are new to the program; and three players who already have worked as FedEx reps: Steve Nash (Phoenix Suns/Canada), Tony Parker (San Antonio/France) and Peja Stojakovic (New Orleans Hornets/Serbia).

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