Economics and business

GMG

GMG, also known as Gulf Marketing Group, is a family-owned retail, distribution, and manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Dubai, founded in 1977 as a butcher's shop by Abdul Aziz Hassan Baker.

GMR Group

GMR Group, also known as the Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao Group, is an Indian infrastructure conglomerate founded by G.M. Rao in 1978, best known for airports, including Delhi and Hyderabad.

Go-Ahead Group

Go-Ahead Group is a British transport operator running over 7,000 buses in five countries and over a quarter of London's buses, owned by Kinetic and Globalvia.

Goahead Ventures

GoAhead Ventures is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed-stage technology companies, led by partners Clancey Stahr, Takeshi Mori, and Phil Brady.

GOAT Brand Labs

GOAT Brand Labs is a Bengaluru-based Indian e-commerce house of brands founded in May 2021 by Rishi Vasudev and Rameswar Misra, which acquires and scales digitally native lifestyle brands.

GoByBike

GoByBike (Gobybike Finland Oy) is a Finnish employee bike-benefit service founded in Espoo in 2020, arranging company bicycle leases between employers, employees, and bike sellers.

Godfrey Kirumira

Godfrey Kirumira is a Ugandan businessman and philanthropist who chairs the GKK Group of Companies, a Kampala conglomerate, and serves as Honorary Consul of Namibia to Uganda.

Godrej

Godrej is an Indian conglomerate founded in 1897 and headquartered in Mumbai, whose businesses range from locks and soaps to aerospace, real estate, and agricultural science.

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (1920–1995) was a Danish industrialist who led the LEGO Group in Billund as managing director from 1957, creating the LEGO System and the 1958 brick.

Goertek

Goertek Inc. (歌尔股份有限公司) is a Chinese electronics manufacturer headquartered in Weifang, Shandong, best known as a core Apple supplier for AirPods and maker of Meta's VR headsets.

GoFundMe, also known as Gofundme.com, is a crowdfunding platform where individuals and charities raise donations for medical bills, emergencies, and disasters, with medical causes its largest category.

Gogolook

Gogolook (走著瞧股份有限公司) is a Taipei-based anti-fraud software company founded in 2012, best known for the Whoscall caller-ID app, which has passed 100 million downloads and holds leading anti-fraud market share in Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan.

GoGoX

GoGoX, formerly GoGoVan (Kuaigou Dache in mainland China), is a Hong Kong online intra-city logistics platform founded in 2013 and listed in Hong Kong since 2022.

Goh Cheng Liang

Goh Cheng Liang was a Singapore entrepreneur who founded Wuthelam Holdings in 1974 and became the controlling shareholder of Japan's Nippon Paint, dying in 2025 at 98.

Goh Hup Jin

Goh Hup Jin is a Singapore businessman, son of tycoon Goh Cheng Liang, who has chaired Japan's largest paint maker, Nippon Paint Holdings, since 2021 through his family's controlling stake.

Gohar Ejaz

Gohar Ejaz is a Pakistani textile industrialist who led the Ejaz Group and APTMA, and served as caretaker federal commerce and interior minister in 2023-24.

Going concern

Going concern, or the going concern principle, is the accounting presumption that an entity will continue operating, with auditors required to disclose substantial doubt when it may not.

Going concern opinion

A going concern opinion is an auditor's report statement flagging substantial doubt about a company's ability to continue operating; it warns of risk but does not predict failure.

Golan Telecom

Golan Telecom is an Israeli low-cost mobile operator founded in 2012 by Michael Golan, whose flat-rate pricing triggered a price war; it has been part of Cellcom since 2020.

Gold as an investment

Gold as an investment means gaining exposure through physical bullion, ETFs, futures, or mining shares; it produces no cash flow, and critics dispute its reliability as an inflation hedge.

Gold Circuit Electronics

Gold Circuit Electronics (金像电) is a Taiwanese printed circuit board maker founded by Yang Chang-Chih in Taoyuan in 1981, now among Taiwan's largest on AI server board orders, with record 2025 revenue of about NT$60 billion.

Gold Fields

Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with nine mines across Australia, South Africa, Ghana, Peru, and Chile, plus the Windfall project in Canada.

Gold fixing

The gold fixing, now published as the LBMA Gold Price, is the twice-daily London benchmark price for gold, set by an electronic auction since March 2015.

Gold franc

The gold franc is a franc defined by a fixed weight of gold, established in France in 1803 and later used as a treaty unit of account.

Gold Leaf Farming LP

Gold Leaf Farming LP is a Delaware limited partnership, formed in 2023 and headquartered in Modesto, California, that owns almond and pistachio orchards and sells farmland interests to investors.

Gold reserve

A gold reserve is monetary gold held by a central bank or government as a reserve asset, totaling about 40,000 tonnes, roughly a fifth of all gold ever mined.

Gold Reserve Act

The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 is a US law that vested the nation's monetary gold in the government and set gold at $35 an ounce.

Gold standard

The gold standard is a monetary regime fixing a currency to a set quantity of gold; its classical era ran from about 1880 to 1914, ending with World War I.

Gold Standard Act

The Gold Standard Act, signed March 14, 1900, was a United States federal law making gold the sole standard of value, with paper notes redeemable in gold coin.