The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in companies of all kinds, to provide strategic management of participations, to make and manage financial investments, to acquire and exploit intellectual property rights, and to provide consulting services of all kinds. Furthermore, it may establish branches and agencies in Switzerland and abroad, found subsidiaries, acquire, manage, renovate and sell real estate, trade in goods of all kinds, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company directly or indirectly or that relate to the investment and management of the company's assets.