List of Company Name Etymologies - G

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• Garmin – named after its founders, Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao.
• Gartner – named after its founder, Gideon Gartner, who left the firm in 1992 to start Giga (named from Gideon Gartner).
• Gatti's Pizza – Gatti was the maiden name of Pat Eure, wife of company founder Jim Eure.
• GCap Media – named after the merger of the GWR Group and Capital Radio Group in May 2005. GWR was launched in 1985 after the merger of Radio West and Wiltshire Radio.
• Genentech – from Genetic Engineering Technology.
• GEICO – from Government Employees Insurance Company
• Gerdau – Largest producer of long steel in the Americas, named from the surname of the founder: Johannes Heinrich Kaspar Gerdau.
• Glaxo – a dried-milk company set up in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand, by Joseph Edward Nathan. The company wanted to use the name "Lacto" but it was similar to some already in use. Glaxo evolved and was registered on 27 October 1906. GlaxoSmithKline was a 2000 merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham.
• Glock Ges.m.b.H. – named after its founder, Gaston Glock.
• Goodyear – named after the founder of vulcanization, Charles Goodyear, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company was founded by Frank Seiberling in 1898.
• Google – an originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol was proposed to reflect the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.
• Grey Global Group – an advertising and marketing agency supposed to have derived its name from the colour of the walls of its first office.
• Groupon – chief executive Andrew Mason used the derivation as his five-word acceptance speech at the 2011 Webby Awards ceremony: "It's short for group coupon."
• Grundig – named after its founder, radio dealer-turned-manufacturer Max Grundig, in 1945.
• Gulfstream Aerospace – named after the Gulf Stream current that starts in the Gulf of Mexico and crosses the Atlantic. The company traces its origins to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, which was sold and renamed in 1985.