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LexCorp
| LexCorp | |
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Corporation | |
 "We make things grow" | |
| Field | Fertilizers, pesticides, and farm equipment (2002) |
| Management | Lex Luthor (CEO) |
| Location | Smallville (2002) |
LexCorp was a company created by Lex Luthor in 2002.
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Season One
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When his father Lionel Luthor had abruptly closed LuthorCorp Plant Number Three, Lex did not want to leave the thousands of employees jobless. Resentful of Lionel's controlling ways, Lex successfully forced a employee-led buyout of the plant and renamed it "LexCorp" using a combination of capital raised from among the employees and the capital from his late mother's shares of LuthorCorp.
Season TwoEdit
Lionel attempted to block the buyout by buying the Smallville Savings and Loan, but the tornado put Lionel in the hospital and then rehabilitation for several months. Eventually, Lionel was able to buy LexCorp by blackmailing various board members. Since Lex had sunk everything he had into LexCorp, he lost everything when he lost his company.
After his father had him thrown out of the mansion and he was a house guest at the Kents for a few days until Lex made a deal with his father where Lionel gave Lex back LexCorp in exchange for Lex's silence regarding his brother Lucas Luthor. After being bought out by LuthorCorp, LexCorp went back to its original name of "LuthorCorp Plant Number Three".
Season TenEdit
Added by Eddy1097After the deaths of his alternate reality father Lionel Luthor and his sister Tess Mercer, Lex watched in confusion in LuthorCorp's main office in Metropolis of the arrival of Darkseid's planet on Earth while an explosion caused several letters of LuthorCorp's main office's sign to fall, leaving behind in the shattered framework that loosely spelled "LEXCORP".
In The ComicsEdit
Added by LDragoWhile there's little mention was made of it in Smallville, LexCorp is the "heart" of Lex Luthor's "empire" in the comics.
Originally organized as an aerospace engineering firm, LexCorp has become one of the DC Universe's largest, most diversified multinational corporations. Under the astute - some would say, ruthless - management of its founder Lex Luthor, LexCorp grew and prospered, absorbing scores of smaller businesses.
While still in its original offices on the top floor of Metropolis's famed Daily Planet building, LexCorp made its first acquisitions of two then-struggling airlines, Inter-Continental Airlines and Atlantic Coast Air Systems (since renamed LexAir). As LexCorp subsidiaries, the airlines began to prosper. And when rising profits were threatened by fuel shortages, LexCorp bought out Southwestern Petroleum, now known as LexOil.
Added by Kal-ELFor a brief period, the Daily Planet itself came under the ownership of LexCorp, but Luthor quickly became disenchanted with what he considered the low profit margins of the newspaper business. He moved LexCorp's offices into a new high-rise building and began buying up downtown properties in preparation for the day when LexCorp would build its own corporate headquarters. LexCorp soon bought out a Metropolis television station and acquired a satellite transmission company, linking both under the corporation's new LexCom subsidiary as SuperStation WLEX. With a potentially worldwide electronic communications out-let under the LexCorp umbrella, Luthor soon sold the Planet, building and all, to TransNational Enterprises.
In time, LexCorp gained controlling interest in no fewer than three banks - the Metropolis Mercantile Bank, Commerce Bank of Metropolis, and First Metro Security - and moved into all the major financial markets, absorbing new holdings worldwide.
By the timeframe of the Alliance Invasion, LexCorp dominated the commerce of the city - and, indeed, of much of the world - from the 96-story L-shaped building which towered above the Metropolis skyline from the eastern tip of the borough of New Troy. It was estimated that LexCorp at its height, either directly or indirectly, employed nearly two-thirds of the city's 11 million people. A majority of local businesses were wholly- or partially-owned subsidiaries of LexCorp. Among those many subsidiaries are such diverse businesses as Advanced Research Laboratories, Secur-Corp Armored Car Service, North American Robotics, Hell's Gate Disposal Services, and the Good Foods Group, owners of Ralli's Family Restaurants and the Koul-Brau Breweries.
In addition to it's many properties in the greater Metropolis area, LexCorp has domestic holdings in Los Angeles, Denver, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, Gotham City, and Boston. LexCorp currently maintains financial institutions, reseach facilities, refineries, and/or manufacturing plants in a score of countries, including Australia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, France, the Union of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Singapore, and the free market of Hong Kong. When CEO Lex Luthor was elected President of the United States, Talia al Ghul took over the company. Following his dismissal as president, he unofficially fired her and took back his place, unaware that she kept a portion of stock from him.
Competitors include Wayne Enterprises, Kord Industries, Queen Industries, and S.T.A.R. Labs.
A year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Lex Luthor has been stripped of his wealth, assets, and businesses and is reduced to living like a vagrant. LexCorp has had its stocks dissolved and sold off to other companies, most notably Wayne Enterprises. Talia Head donated a large portion of its profits to the Wayne Foundation during Superman and Batman's year long absences.
Lana Lang became LexCorp's new CEO following Luthor's public acquittal from criminal charges, although the company seems to be heading towards bankruptcy.
Lana Lang was automatically dismissed from her post of CEO when she attempted to use Team Luthor (a LexCorp security unit) to aid Superman in a battle against the superpowered Atlas; this was in violation of a contractual clause in all LexCorp employment charters forbidding aiding Superman in any way - Lang had not read the fine print.
NotesEdit
- The "recreation" of LexCorp occuring after the deaths of Lex's alternate reality father and half-sister mirrors the creation of LuthorCorp occuring after the deaths of Lionel's bastard father and gin-soaked mother.
See AlsoEdit
Lex Luthor in Smallville
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Luthors in Smallville
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