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Group decision-making

Group decision-making, also called collective decision-making, is the process by which a group converts individual preferences or judgments into one collective choice, studied formally as social choice theory.

Group of 77

The Group of 77 is the largest coalition of developing countries in the United Nations, founded in 1964 at the first UNCTAD session in Geneva and now numbering 134 members.

Group of Ten (economics)

The Group of Ten (G10) is an informal group of eleven industrial countries that lend currencies to the International Monetary Fund through the General Arrangements to Borrow.

Group of Twenty-Four

The Group of Twenty-Four (G-24) is a caucus of developing countries, formed in 1971 as a chapter of the Group of 77, that coordinates positions on IMF and World Bank matters.

Group Sense, maker of Instant-Dict electronic dictionaries

Group Sense (Group Sense (International) Limited) is a Hong Kong manufacturer founded in 1988 by Samson and Thomas Tam, known for the Instant-Dict (快译通) electronic dictionaries and listed in Hong Kong since 1993.

Groupe BPCE

Groupe BPCE is a French universal cooperative banking group formed in 2009 from the merger of Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne, the second-largest in France.

Groupe Dassault

Groupe Dassault is a French family holding company, organized as GIMD, that controls Dassault Aviation, Dassault Systèmes, and Le Figaro, founded by Marcel Dassault in 1929.

Groupe L'Occitane

Groupe L'Occitane is a French cosmetics group founded in Provence in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, selling skincare under eight brands, including Sol de Janeiro and ELEMIS.

Groupe Mulliez

Groupe Mulliez, organized around the Association Familiale Mulliez, is a French family holding controlling Auchan, Decathlon, and Leroy Merlin, begun in 1905 as wool spinning near Roubaix.

Groupon

Groupon is an e-commerce marketplace selling discounted vouchers for local businesses. Founded in Chicago in 2008, it became the fastest company to reach $1 billion in revenue.

Grove Ventures

Grove Ventures is a Tel Aviv-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Dov Moran, inventor of the USB flash drive, investing in Israeli deep-tech startups.

Grow Care, Inc.

Grow Care, Inc., doing business as Grow Therapy, is a New York-based mental health company founded in 2020 whose platform helps providers deliver in-person and online therapy and psychiatric care.

Grow Venture Partners

Grow Venture Partners is a Barcelona-based venture capital firm investing in deep-tech and technology-transfer spin-offs from universities, managing Grow Seed Fund I and the €55 million FITA fund.

Growatt

Growatt (古瑞瓦特) is a Shenzhen-based maker of solar inverters and energy storage systems, founded by Ding Yongqiang in 2010; by 2025 it ranked third globally in residential storage inverters.

Growth accounting

Growth accounting is an economic method that decomposes output growth into capital and labor contributions, with the unexplained remainder, the Solow residual, attributed to total factor productivity.

Growth hacking

Growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation across the full customer journey, spanning product, marketing, and analytics, to accelerate customer and revenue growth; the term was coined by Sean Ellis.

Growth Street Partners

Growth Street Partners is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Steve Wolfe and Nate Grossman, investing in B2B SaaS and technology-enabled services companies in underserved US and Canadian markets.

Growth–share matrix

The growth–share matrix, or BCG matrix, is a portfolio framework introduced by the Boston Consulting Group in 1970 that sorts business units into stars, cash cows, question marks, and dogs.

Growthcurve Capital Partners

GrowthCurve Capital Partners is a control-oriented private equity firm in New York, founded in 2021 by Sumit Rajpal, investing in technology, healthcare, and financial services businesses.

GrowthFund

GrowthFund, or Vækstfonden, was the Danish state growth fund, established in 1992 to finance small and medium-sized companies with loans, guarantees, and equity until its 2023 merger into EIFO.

Groww

Groww is a Bengaluru-based fintech company founded in 2016 by former Flipkart executives, operating an online investment and broking platform for stocks and mutual funds.

GrubMarket

GrubMarket is a San Francisco food supply-chain technology company founded by CEO Mike Xu in 2014, distributing fresh produce and meat while selling software to wholesalers and grocers.

Grupa Pracuj

Grupa Pracuj, the Pracuj Group, is a Warsaw-based HR technology group founded in 2000 by Przemysław Gacek, operating the Polish job board Pracuj.pl and Ukrainian platform Robota.ua.

Grupa PZU

Grupa PZU is Poland's largest insurance group, a Warsaw-listed financial holding centered on Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń that combines property, life, and health insurance with two banks, serving 22 million clients.

Grupo ABC (Brazilian advertising holding)

Grupo ABC was a São Paulo-based advertising and marketing holding founded in 2002 by Nizan Guanaes and Guga Valente, Brazil's largest, sold to Omnicom in 2015 for about R$ 1 billion.

Grupo AJE

Grupo AJE, known as AJE Group, is a Peruvian family-owned beverage multinational founded in 1988 in Ayacucho, known for the low-priced Kola Real and Big Cola brands.

Grupo Aval

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. is a Colombian financial holding company controlling four commercial banks, the largest private pension fund, and the largest merchant bank in Colombia.

Grupo Bafar

Grupo Bafar is a family-controlled Mexican food group based in Chihuahua, founded by Eugenio Baeza in 1983 and listed on the Mexican stock exchange since 1996.

Grupo Bio Ritmo

Grupo Bio Ritmo is a São Paulo-based fitness group founded by Edgard Corona, which opened its first gym in 1996 and now runs Smart Fit, Latin America's largest gym network.

Grupo Bolívar

Grupo Bolívar S.A. is a Colombian financial holding company, created by spin-off in 1996, owning insurer Seguros Bolívar, founded in 1939, and Banco Davivienda, and designated a financial holding in 2019.