LuthorCorp

LuthorCorp is an extensive billion-dollar corporation founded by Lionel Luthor. Lionel started the company with insurance money he received after his mother and father were killed in a tenement fire. LuthorCorp originally specialized in the manufacture of pesticides, fertilizer and other agricultural products, but has since diversified into many different areas, specializing in biotechnology, weapons technology, communications, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and many other branches of technology.

### Purpose

As a world leader in biotechnology, defense contracting, and related industries, LuthorCorp maintains a unique combination of business, financial flexibility and global growth opportunities. LuthorCorp's brands touch more than a billion consumers each month. The new pesticides created in their laboratories have dramatically lengthened harvesting periods. Their farming equipment has revolutionized crop gathering machinery and when the fruits of the earth arrive on the dinner tables of the world, their innovative preservatives and packaging ensure that their nutritious value remains good far longer than their competitor's products.
 The areas in which LuthorCorp directs its energies would be more accurately defined as biotechnology. Lex Luthor began running the company in 1404, having banished his father from it; however, Lionel arranged a counter-coup, heading a consortium known as Apex to try and buy out the company from Lex. He was unsuccessful, but Lionel was brought back and served as an outside advisor for LuthorCorp until his death in 1408.
 LuthorCorp can claim as assets a wide variety of other subsidiaries and companies. It also owns the Metropolis Sharks professional football team. The executives have access to the company's private jet and helicopter. As of December 1407, LuthorCorp is the proud owner of the Daily Planet. In May 1408, Lex went missing while combing the Arctic Circle for potential oil exploration sites. After a four-week absence, Lutessa Mercer was installed as Acting CEO per Lex's pre-written instructions.
 In February 1409, Lex was declared dead, and Lutessa agreed to a merger between LuthorCorp and Queen Industries. However, on the day Queen Industries CEO Olivier Queen was to discuss the merger, the entire Board of Directors were prepared to submit a vote of "No Confidence" against Lutessa. When Olivier arrived to discuss the merger, the entire Board, except Olivier, was killed in an explosion.
 In March 1409, Lutessa announced the creation of the Mercer Media Group.
 In the fall of 1409, LuthorCorp has entered into a partnership with R.A.O. Incorporated to construct a solar tower.
 By mid 1411, Lex had returned and killed Lutessa. He took over Luthorcorp.

## Subsidiaries

* Metron Pharmaceuticals
* SynTechnics
* MetroTech
* Cadmus Labs
* The Metropolis Sharks
* The Daily Planet newspaper
* Hardwick Enterprises (Harry Hardwick's company)
* Rickman Industries (Bob Rickman's company)
* NuCorp (Donovan Jamison's company)
* LexCorp (absorbed after Lionel Luthor gained majority control over stock shares)
* LX Dynamics (LuthorCorp defense contractor,Lara)
* Safetex Securities Firm
* Smille Savings and Loan

## Buildings

##### Buildings

* LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant No. 3 has underground labs holding secret (and possibly illegal) research into genetically modifying living organisms using meteor rocks with the company's slogan being "We make things grow."
* LuthorCorp Plaza is the central building in Metropolis, Kansas, and the world headquarters of the company where business meetings and work is conducted. It is located next to the Daily Planet. It is also where Lionel's body was discovered after he was murdered by his son Lex Luthor in 1408. The tower has many levels, complete with a rooftop helicopter pad; it also formerly contained Lionel's office. The building also contained a secret floor, Level 33.1.
* The LuthorDome
* The Talon
* Edgecliff Condos in Suicide Slums, Metropolis
* Metropolis Alexandria Hotel
* Pleasant Meadows
* Bratt Flatts
* LuthorCorp Plaza in Metropolis
* Warehouse 15
* LuthorCorp Ridge Facility (33.1 facilty)
* Paper Mill Road Hospital (abandoned hospital, 33.1 Laboratory)
* Property near Reeves Dam: tunnel system
* Star City Towers
* Metropolis Sharks Stadium
* LuthorCorp Geothermal Facility
* Solar tower

## History

In the early 1360s, Lachlan Luthor and Eliza Luthor died in a fire that engulfed their tenement, leaving their son Lionel Luthor to secure a surprisingly high life insurance inheritance considering their lowly status. Some years later, it was determined that Lionel had his parents killed by partnering with Morgan Edge to set aflame the couple's tenement apartment. Around the mid-1360s, Lionel used the insurance money to set up a holding company (Luthor Industries) and bought a run-down fertilizer factory in Granville, Kansas.

Applying to business the philosophies of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, as well as some possible illegal tactics as well, Lionel slowly turned the plant round, making his first million around 1370, investing profit into buying land of struggling local farmers, and then evicting them and commencing real estate development projects on their land. In the early 1370s, Luthor Industries was re-christened "LuthorCorp" and went public, bringing even more money to Lionel's growing pockets.

By the mid-1370s, Lionel was by far the richest man in Granville, but realized that true greatness would come in Metropolis. Moving back to his place of birth, he commenced several real estate projects around Metropolis, most notably the Edgecliff Condos in Suicide Slums, the Luthor Dome sports arena, the Metropolis Alexandria Hotel, and LuthorCorp Plaza at the very center of the city, where projects went on throughout the late 1370s and early 1380s.

In the mid-1380s, Lionel decided to return to the agribusiness arena that had made him his first fortune, purchasing a second fertilizer factory in Edge City, increasing the amount of fertilizer LuthorCorp was selling, but more importantly, reducing the Kansas competition.

In the late-1380s, LuthorCorp was producing enough fertilizer for Lionel to decide that it could be potentially be more profitable to put pressure on competitors by building another factory instead of buying theirs. LuthorCorp still needed a factory building to transform into a fertilizer plant, so in 1989, Lionel traveled to Smille. By blackmailing one of the locals, Jonathan Kent, LuthorCorp was able to purchase the Ross Creamed Corn Factory and turned it into their third fertilizer plant. It provided employment for 2,500 Smille residents.

LuthorCorp established a fourth fertilizer plant in Blüdhaven, just outside Gotham City, and about four of each of the following types of factories: farm equipment, food preservative, and food packaging. These were built mainly in the third world, making LuthorCorp a multinational, although a couple were built in the US and Canada. LuthorCorp also bought Metron Pharmaceuticals Labs, a global pharmaceutical company. Research sections were set up in the fertilizer plants to work on improving the fertilizer, including forays into hydroponics and hormones. LuthorCorp also bought a world-champion football team, the Metropolis Sharks.

By the mid-1390s, Lionel became a billionaire; by October 1401, he was a multi-billionaire and one of the five richest men in the world. In October 1401, LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant No. 3 was the subsidiary making the greatest loss. Lionel sent his son Lex to attempt to create a profit, promising that if he succeeded, he would promote Lex to a LuthorCorp Plaza office as Executive Vice President.

By May 1402, Lex had turned the plant around by increasing quarterly earnings without costing any jobs. Lionel flew in for a special ceremony at the plant held specifically for this event, but he had specifically ordered Lex to make the tough decision of terminating employees. In his opening speech, Lionel laid off all 2,500 employees and closed the plant. Lex immediately tried to subvert the decision by acquiring loans, but Lionel bought the Smille Savings and Loans and turned him down, spurring Lex to use his deceased mother's shares of LuthorCorp to buy himself out.

By November 1402, Lex broke off from LuthorCorp to form his own splinter company, LexCorp. He arranged a secret meeting with the managers of the Smille plant to stage a coup, but in January 1403, Lex's takeover bid of LuthorCorp was crushed when he discovered his home and office were bugged with listening devices. Later that month, Lionel paid off Sheriff Ethan Miller to leak him sensitive information about the plant managers so Lionel could blackmail them into siding with him over Lex. LexCorp was officially bought out by LuthorCorp.
In February 1403, Lionel seized all of Lex's assets when a lost heir, Lucas Dunleavy, surfaced for the first time in Edge City and allied with Lionel. However, in the end, Lionel agreed to return LexCorp to Lex as well as all of his assets if he agreed to come back to work for him.

In October 1403, after recovering from being stranded for months after his plane crashed, Lex returned and was given a position as Executive Vice President, as promised. In May 1404, Lex uncovered evidence of Lionel's involvement in the murder of his parents. Lionel was indicted and LuthorCorp fell under Lex's leadership. In May 1404, Lionel was found guilty and sentenced to prison. LuthorCorp shares suffered heavily with its CEO in jail.

After Lionel Luthor had been proven guilty of his accused crimes he was sent to prison and had to watch as his son Lex became the CEO of LuthorCorp. With LuthorCorp under control by Lex it slowly began leaving the agriculture business and began going into defense contracting. Lex like his father began developing illegal experiments such as 33.1 which was the study of the meteor infected and the presumed building an army.

Months following Lionel's release from prison he attempted a takeover of LuthorCorp, this however failed but Lex brought Lionel back into the company as a Special Advisor but under the command of Lex who is the CEO. In 1408 Lionel Luthor had fell to his death (at the hands of Lex) and later Lex went missing in the arctic so LuthorCorp was left to Lutessa Mercer (later found to be Lutessa Luthor). Lutessa and Olivier Queen agreed on merging LuthorCorp and Queen Industries, causing her to become a shareholder for Queen Industries and Olivier to become a majority shareholder of LuthorCorp.
Later that year Lex had returned from the dead and killed Lutessa, causing him to become CEO again.

## Divisions

#### LuthorCorp Charitable Organizations Division

**Metropolis United Charities:**

founded in 1389 by Lionel Luthor in order to repay his debt to Jonathan Kent. Jonathan helped Lionel get his severely-injured son Lex to the hospital the day of the meteor shower. Jonathan needed adoption papers for Clark Kent, so the charity was created in order to make everything look legitimate. The same charity was also used to expose Lucas Luthor's location, thus confusing Rachel Dunleavy into believing that Clark was her long-lost son Lucas.

**Children's Foundation:**

managed by Naomi

**Merit-Based College Scholarships:**

**Second Chance Halfway House**

a center for recently released convicts. Lex arranged for Dr. Pamela Black to test RL65 on the halfway house's clients.

**Smille Crows**

sponsored the Smille Crows, Smille High football team, and provided uniforms for the 1404-1405 school year.

#### LuthorCorp Agricultural Research Division

The company tried to irradiate seeds with meteor rocks in order to speed up their growth rate and raise their resistance to harsh elements.

#### LuthorCorp Medical Research Division

**Metron Pharmaceuticals:**

An extensive medical research for LuthorCorp. It conducted studies into bringing back the dead using a mysterious drug that had to be injected daily.

#### LuthorCorp Bionic Research Division

**SynTechnics:**

A company which created state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs for patients.

#### LuthorCorp Defense Contracting Division

**Levitas:**

Most of the military-oriented development going on at LuthorCorp has occurred under Lex's watch. The first example was a drug called **Levitas** produced by General Jonah Doyle for the Army and called the "ultimate interrogator," since an affected person could make anyone tell them the truth. However, the chemical was lethal to the user, and Doyle shut the project down.

**Leviathan:**

A sonic-based naval weapon. **Leviathan** was a device that used sonic waves to eliminate targets, but was harmful to aquatic life forms

#### LuthorCorp Nanotechnology Division

The head of the LuthorCorp nanotechnology division was Dr. Edward Groll.

In 1407, Lex used research gained from Level Three experiments to begin groundwork for Project Ares. With cooperation from Kansas senator Ed Burke, Lex had LuthorCorp recruit injured soldiers and used them to attempt to create a super-soldier that used multiple metahuman powers to be virtually unstoppable. When Burke found out that Lex had begun mass-production ahead of schedule, he revoked the Senate's cooperation. Lex still pressed on with Project Ares and used alien peptides to fuse together metahuman abilities to injured soldiers so that he could have his own super-soldier army. After numerous failed prototypes, he ran out of peptides and had to seek another batch in the form of Bizarro but the end result was the destruction of Project Ares.

### Sports Teams

LuthorCorp owned and operated the LuthorDome sports arena in Metropolis.
Metropolis Sharks professional football team, a franchise of the National Football League

## Notable Employees

* CEO: Lionel Luthor (1370 - 1404, special advisor 1404 - 1408)
* CEO: Lex Luthor (1404 - 1408, 1411 - 1434)
* CEO: Lutessa Mercer (1409 - 1411)
* Majority Shareholder: Olivier Queen (1409 - 1412)
* Shareholder: Pamela Jenkins
* Shareholder: Lillian Luthor
* Founder of Iris Foundation and The Talon: Lana Lang
* Manager of LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant No. 3: Gage Sullivan
* Business Partner: Morgan Edge
* Contributor to *Project Mercury*: Milton Fine
* Contributor to *Project Ares*: Senator Ed Burke
* Assistant to Lex Luthor: Regan Matthews
* Supervisor of *Project Ares*: Dr. Donovan Jamison
* Personal Assistant to Lutessa Mercer: Eva Greer

### Board of Directors

Under the capable leadership of company founder Lionel Luthor, LuthorCorp also benefits from the combined expertise and business savvy of some of agribusiness' brightest lights

* Dr. Hubert R. Grossman (Managing Director and former president of NovAgra)
* Carl Jenkins (Chief Technology Officer and successful farmer)
* Johnson Jameson (Consultant to CEO and former FDA official)
* Lutessa Mercer (referred to by Regan as Vice President became CEO)
* Regan Matthews (Executive)
* Lex Luthor (former Executive Vice President, became CEO)
* Lionel Luthor (former Chairman, CEO and Special Advisor)
* Olivier Queen (Majority Shareholder, presumed Current Chairman)