Desmond outside the Widmore Industries building, London ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
The Widmore Corporation is a conglomerate of companies which have been featured on Lost and in The Lost Experience. It is owned by the Widmore family and appears to have ties to the Hanso Foundation and Paik Heavy Industries.
Notable companies
Widmore Construction sign on Battersea Power Station, a famous landmark on London's skyline, and which also features on the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals ("Fire + Water")
Sun's pregnancy test ("The Whole Truth")
Henry's balloon ("Lockdown")
In Lost
- Widmore Construction was shown in a flashback episode, where Drive Shaft are filming their videoclip near Battersea Power Station, which has a Widmore Construction banner hanging from one of the building's walls. ("Fire + Water")
- Widmore Labs appear to have sponsored or manufactured the balloon for the real Henry Gale, as their logo was featured on its side. Furthermore, Widmore Labs were the manufacturing company behind the pregnancy tests, seen a number of times on the show and used by Sun, Kate and Rachel. ("The Whole Truth") ("I Do") ("Not in Portland")
- Widmore Industries was seen on the London building where Charles Widmore has an office. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
- The Widmore Corporation organized the boat race in which Desmond participated, leading him to shipwreck on the Island. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1")
Bad Twin
The novel "Bad Twin" heavily features the Widmore family, with private investigator Paul Artisan hired to find Zander Widmore by his twin brother Cliff Widmore. The book at times mentions some interesting facts about the company, as well as its connections to The Hanso Foundation and Paik Heavy Industries.
- In Chapter 4, Widmore is said to have "begun with mid-town real estate, then expanded to the financial district, Florida, California, the Caribbean..." and that "aspects to the Widmore businesses... arcane construction and engineering projects, investments in wide range of scientific enterprises... At times there had been murmurs of Widmore involvement in off shore ventures that would have been illegal on U.S. soil; other rumors hinted at classified defense contracting or private security work of questionable ethics."
- In Chapter 6, Googling "Widmore Corporation" pulls up "over ninety-seven thousand references... sites about the sale of eleven-million-dollar co-ops on Park Avenue, and articles about the construction of office towers in Singapore... references to joint ventures with something called the Hanso Foundation, and links to engineering journals about new techniques for reinforcing concrete... society-page mentions of benefit galas, and investigative pieces about alleged environmental violations in obscure corners of the world."
- In Chapter 6, we learn that Widmore and the Hanso Foundation both are housed in the Widmore offices on East 57th Street in New York City.
- In Chapter 8, we learn that Widmore was doing a deal to go into partnership with Paik Heavy Industries.
- In Chapter 23, in an apparent new change in the board at Widmore, Alvar Hanso was replaced by Thomas Mittelwerk.
In The Lost Experience
The Widmore Corporation is mentioned on Thomas Werner Mittelwerk's answer phone on the Hanso phone line alongside Paik Heavy Industries. He addresses them as colleagues currently involved in active projects with the Foundation. Similarly, Peter Thompson says that anyone making threats against his colleagues or representatives of the Widmore Corporation will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
It was later established that Rachel Blake worked for the Widmore Corporation before quitting her job and receiving a healthy severance pay, which she used to finance her investigations in Europe against the Hanso Foundation. Rachel speaks very little about her old job, though does boast that the computer she used, a Hillis Teraflop in the basement of the Widmore Corporation building, was "badass".
In Find 815
It is discovered by Sam Thomas that the Maxwell Group is a division of Widmore Industries. The Group for some reason is attempting a salvage operation on the Black Rock shipwreck. There is also an implication that someone inside the Maxwell Group is helping Sam in his attempts to find out what happened to Flight 815.
Presence on the Island (2007)
Widmore's team include workers who are under Charles Widmore's command. They arrived on the Island on a submarine, possibly with the intention of killing the Man in Black.
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Charles Widmore | Alive | Leader | Known to have been on the Island since he was 17. Once the leader of the Others, Widmore was banished by Benjamin Linus in 1992 due to a relationship he had off-island, which resulted in the birth of Penelope Widmore. Charles attempted to find the Island ever since, claiming it to be his. He finally located the Island, under unknown circumstances, in 2007. | ||||||
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Zoe | Alive | Employee | Zoe is a woman whom Sawyer met on Hydra Island. He discovered her near the pile of dead bodies of the passengers killed after the Ajira Flight 316 crash. She posed as the last survivor of the Ajira flight. Led Sawyer to Charles Widmore in the submarine. Zoe may be an alias. | ||||||
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Seamus | Alive | Scientist | Alongside Zoe, Seamus is part of the team that accompanied Widmore to the Island. When Zoe failed at gaining Sawyer's trust and was held at gunpoint, she whistled and Seamus, alongside two of his compatriots, emerged from the tall grass and ambushed Sawyer. | ||||||
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Submarine Officer | Alive | Sub Officer | On Widmore's submarine, which is offshore and traveling parallel to the Island, the officer using a periscope sees a group of eight people on the beach, reports "there are people on the beach" to Charles Widmore, and asks whether they should stop. Widmore commands him to "proceed as planned." | ||||||
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Matthew Abaddon | Dead | Associate | Matthew Abaddon was a mysterious agent of Charles Widmore whose job was to get people to "where they needed to be". He assembled the Kahana science team alongside Naomi Dorrit and was assassinated by Benjamin Linus while assisting Locke on Widmore's behalf. | ||||||
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Widmore Corporation/Theories
- What is the Widmore Corporation's role in connection to the DHARMA Initiative through its connection to the Hanso Foundation?
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