Gujarati-language professional practice spans Gujarat (population ~62 million) plus the world's most globally distributed Indian-state diaspora — Gujarati-origin communities are dominant in East Africa's commercial life, in significant portions of the UK retail and hospitality sectors, in US motel and convenience-retail ownership (the Patel-named ownership phenomenon), in the Gulf trading communities, and in growing communities in Canada, Australia and Southeast Asia.
Gujarat is India's most export-oriented state. The Mundra Port (Adani) is India's largest private-sector port and one of the busiest container ports in the country. Kandla Port is the largest non-private port. The Surat-Bharuch-Vapi industrial corridor is a major chemicals, dyes, textiles and engineering cluster. Ahmedabad is the financial-and-commercial hub. Vadodara has a substantial petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals presence. Gandhinagar hosts Gift City — India's premier International Financial Services Centre.
The Gujarati-language professional infrastructure includes Gujarati-language professional press (Divya Bhaskar, Gujarat Samachar, Sandesh), trade publications across diamonds and gems (Surat is the world's largest diamond-cutting and polishing centre), textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, ceramics (Morbi is the world's second-largest ceramic-tile cluster), and engineering. For the MSME-founder persona, the Gujarati operating environment is the densest in India for export trade, and the Gujarati diaspora networks provide ready-made distribution into East Africa, the Gulf, the UK and the US.