*rubs sleep from eyes* wha...?
ok i'm awake i'm back. greedy from overtime money at work. 😄
i ain't a batman comic book geek, but of the little i know, i don't think there is any official "thing" that WE does. ain't even sure who started it. coulda been his dad, or even before that.
my personal take is that his dad, a doc, did start it, had an idea about medical equipment, and he hired some good people and the thing took off, and fairly quickly branched out. just cuz i work in the medical profession myself, i could come up with a whole bunch of things they might be credited with, theoretically---PET scans (positron emission tomography, which is a kind of nuclear imaging), stents, open MRI, combining the "regular" pacemaker with an automatic defibrillator..... oh dear, i've begun to geek.....
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anyway. and then after that they branched out mightily. i do have a small problem with them being a military subcontractor. seems odd that Batman concentrates on saving lives and his company concentrates on killing them, in effect. the military doesn't deliver daisies. 😑
Whether or not his dad started it I'm not sure, but we do know the Wayne family was wealthy before Bruce's dad. Wayne Manor has been mentioned as supposidly having housed generations of Waynes. So its hard to say, they were getting money from somewhere. I do think it is highly hinted that his dad was key in building Wayne Enterprises into a huge powerhouse.
The history of Wayne Enterprises is actually longer than the history of Gotham. The Enterprises was founded in the 17th century and thus is one of the oldest companies in the world. Along the years it has evolved from a plain old merchant house to a large multinational conglomerate company that can go up against its bigger competitor the LexCorp.The company changed when the heirs of Judge Solomon Wayne used their father's wealth and erected the Wayne Shipping company and also the Wayne Chemical company into the city. Now there were three branches of the company and soon the Wayne Manufacturing followed as it was funded. All these companies were energized and powered by the world's Industrial Revolution and they kept changing and changing, more branches were being opened and built while others dwindled and were discarded.
Wayne Enterprises became a Green company under the control of Patrick and Laura Wayne and so it has been from that day, even when the environmentalism wasn't a fad or a necessity, Wayne Enterprises followed those ideals. As the 20th century turned the corner, it was Wayne Enterprises still in the city, they were the city in many ways and even now they employ the largest part of the city's considerable work-force.
Through two World Wars and the great recessions the company has come through and with the ushering of Lucius Fox it now stands as the forerunner in many fields of technology. WayneCorp changed its name to Wayne Enterprises in the eighties and it has been able to rejuvenate itself many times and it has been able to survive and stand tall even after the Cataclysm and the Billion Dollar Build-Up where its efforts were far greater than LexCorp's.
Now Wayne Technologies, Wayne Chemicals with Wayne Pharmaceuticals and Wayne Aerospace stand tall in the forefront of pharmaceutical and technological research and development. They have many joint ventures with Drake Medical and S.T.A.R. Labs and even some with LexCorp.
The company is large company spanning the globe and is a large power in the global marketplace and thus is a multi-billion dollar company on a bad day and definitely not going down the drain in a hurry. In a matter of fact it just recently purchased a company that was the forerunner in the field of nano-technology and anti-gravity. It was also in the running to build the next space plane and the company's subsidiaries all have multiple government contracts and deals.
The things Wayne Enterprises deal in are varied, there are mining companies, shipping, oil drilling and refineries owned by the Enterprises and then there are the food products and agricultural productions along with agricultural technology being produced. Of course the most significant things to the normal consumer are the consumer electronics like the Hi-Fi systems, computers and also Wayne Entertainment that owns the Sommerset Stadium and has many deals with different entertainers and owns its own record label, along with the premiere news paper in the world, The Daily Planet. There other branches and products Wayne Enterprises deals in. Wayne Aerospace is a very successful aerospace company that produces, researches and develops aeronautical systems from avionics to airplanes to helicopters to weapons systems. Wayne Technologies researches cybernetics and nanotechnologies along with other bio-engineering systems and pharmaceuticals, along with WayneChem. Also WayneTech is the healthcare system in Gotham as it owns most of the healthcare facilities in Gotham City and Gotham County. Wayne Steel on the other hand specializes in manufacturing, steel and metallurgical application and also ship building. There are three shipyards Wayne Steel owns in the city and many more in the world, and the strongest power behind Wayne Steel is that their largest contractor is the US Government as the recent crises have left the Navy's ships and weapons depleted. With S.T.A.R. Labs Wayne Enterprises have just now boosted their botanical research and are hopeful of its future.
Even though the Billion-Dollar Build-Up was a large strain on Wayne Enterprises, it has quickly bounced back to be a true force to be reckoned with in the global community. Its main headquarters are in Gotham, in the Wayne Tower. Of course there are branch offices and headquarters all over the world, with the second largest office tower in New York City.
Of course the Wayne Enterprises is much, much more than just a place for getting income. It is the best way for Batman to get information from corporate world and the news there and the rumors. The companies of today are nations unto themselves and they are great forces to be reckoned with. Also there is the fact that even though Bruce Wayne is a jetsetting playboy, he works too and the Wayne Enterprises gives a great cover story for zipping to wherever and whenever.
Wayne Enterprises includes sub-companies. They are:
# Wayne enterprises
# Wayne technologies
# Wayne biotech
# Wayne aerospace
# Wayne chemicals
# Wayne shipping
# Wayne foundation
# Wayne industries
# Wayne medical
# Wayne electronics
# Wayne entertainment
# Wayne steel
# Wayne shipbuilding
# Wayne foods
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