The primary concerns of the Gul Ahmed Group include Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited, Gul Ahmed Energy Limited, and Habib Metropolitan Bank. More recently, a chain of retail outlets has been founded under the name "Ideas by Gul Ahmed". The group's other concerns go by the name of Swisstex Chemicals (Private) Limited, which is a large chemical distribution company that has the sole rights for supplying Ciba Specialty Chemicals in Pakistan. "The group has also extended in to the information technology sector and made vast investments in its fastest developing concern Arwen Technologies that made it into the 9 May 2005 issue of Business Week regarding Pakistan's rapidly developing outsourcing sector.
See Business Week 9 May 2005 "Pakistan: Better Late Than Never In Outsourcing" (ISSN 0007-7135)