Economics and business

Lakson Group

Lakson Group is a Karachi-based, family-owned Pakistani conglomerate established in 1954, with over 15 companies, assets above $1 billion, and media interests including the Daily Express.

Lalamove

Lalamove (货拉拉) is an on-demand logistics platform founded in Hong Kong in 2013 by Chow Shing-yuk, connecting merchants with van and truck drivers through a marketplace that owns no vehicles.

Lalit Bhise

Lalit Bhise is an Indian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Bizom, a Bengaluru retail-intelligence platform that raised a $12 million Series B in 2024.

Lamberto Frescobaldi

Lamberto Frescobaldi is an Italian wine executive, born in Florence in 1963, who has been president of the Tuscan wine producer Marchesi de' Frescobaldi since 2013.

Lamia Merzouki

Lamia Merzouki is a Moroccan business executive, chief operating officer of Casablanca Finance City since 2010 and chair of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers since 2024.

Lancai Wang

Lancai Wang (懒财网) was a Beijing-based online wealth-management and P2P lending platform founded by Tao Weijie in 2013, which reported RMB 23.4 billion in lending before a 2019 police case.

Lance Cottrill is an American private-equity investor who has been a Managing Director at Horsley Bridge Partners, a San Francisco fund-of-funds manager, since 2000, and a part-owner and trustee of the firm.

Lance Uggla

Lance Uggla is a Canadian financial information entrepreneur who founded Markit in London in 2003 and led IHS Markit through its 2022 merger with S&P Global.

Lance Y. Gokongwei

Lance Y. Gokongwei is a Filipino business executive who has been president and CEO of JG Summit Holdings since 2018 and chairs Cebu Air and Universal Robina.

Lancium

Lancium Technologies Corp is a Texas energy-transition company founded in 2017 that builds gigawatt-scale data center campuses whose power demand can flex within seconds to support the Texas grid.

Oct 21, 2026

Land consolidation

Land consolidation: a land management instrument that regroups fragmented parcels into compact holdings with equivalent land exchanged, originating in post-WWI Europe (Poland 1923, Netherlands 1924), now multipurpose, with effects on productivity, degradation, and rural development varying by design.

Land grabbing in Uganda

Land grabbing in Uganda is the appropriation of land from local holders by elites, government entities, and investors, exploiting undocumented customary tenure and enforced often through evictions.

Land reform

Land reform, also called land redistribution or agrarian reform, is large-scale government intervention to redistribute land ownership or secure rights over it, through redistribution, restitution, or tenure reform.

Land reform in Afghanistan

Land reform in Afghanistan refers to government programs redistributing land to landless peasants, most prominently the 1978 Decree No. 8 of the Democratic Republic, suspended by 1979 after fueling rural insurgency.

Land reform in Czechoslovakia

Land reform in Czechoslovakia (pozemková reforma) was a state program begun in 1919 that seized large noble and church estates and parceled them out to small farmers and war invalids.

Land reform in Kyrgyzstan

Land reform in Kyrgyzstan was the post-Soviet program that distributed state and collective farm land to rural households from 1991, giving about 510,000 families 99-year transferable use rights.

Land reform in North Korea

Land reform in North Korea, proclaimed March 5, 1946, redistributed about half of northern farmland free of charge from Japanese owners and landlords to peasants.

Oct 21, 2026

Land value

Land value: the monetary worth of land as property, separate from improvements. Covers Ricardian rent theory, Henry George's single tax, valuation methods, and land value capture.

Land value tax

The land value tax (LVT), or site value tax, is a recurrent tax on the unimproved value of land itself, not buildings, tried in more than 30 countries.

Landers Superstore

Landers Superstore is a Philippine membership-only warehouse club combining a supermarket and department store, opened in Quezon City in 2016 with 16 stores by 2025.

Oct 10, 2026

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is a German commercial bank under public law, owned by Baden-Württemberg, its savings banks association, and Stuttgart, with total assets of EUR 347 billion.

Oct 20, 2026

Landing Casino

Landing Casino (랜딩 카지노, now LES A Casino) is a foreigners-only casino in Jeju Shinhwa World, Seogwipo, Jeju, South Korea. Opened 25 February 2018 after relocating from the Hyatt Regency Cheju Casino; about 150 tables and 210 slots and ETGs.

Landing page

A landing page, also called a lead capture page or destination page, is the webpage a visitor reaches after clicking an ad, built around a single conversion goal.

Landmark Group

Landmark Group is a Dubai-headquartered, family-owned retail and hospitality conglomerate founded by Micky Jagtiani in 1973, operating over 2,200 stores in 17 countries with revenue above $7 billion.

Landmark Worldwide

Landmark Worldwide, also known as Landmark Education, is a for-profit personal-development company descended from Werner Erhard's est that runs the Landmark Forum, with more than 3 million participants.

Lane Bryant

Lane Bryant is an American plus-size women's apparel and intimates chain founded in New York City in 1904 by Lena Bryant, which grew from a maternity dress into the country's largest plus-size retailer.

Lanhu (蓝湖)

Lanhu (蓝湖) is a Chinese collaborative design SaaS platform launched in January 2017 by founder and CEO Ren Yanghui, reaching a reported USD1 billion valuation in 2021.

Lannou Medical (莱诺医疗) (Lino Medical)

Lannou Medical (莱诺医疗) is a Shanghai-based Chinese developer of interventional ENT and cranial-spinal surgical devices, founded in 2015 by Cui Teng and later renamed Nuomei Xinchuang (诺美新创).