The company's purpose is to hold, manage, and enhance corporate shareholdings, particularly through the holding of international corporate shareholdings as a holding company, with the possibility of directly or indirectly financing group companies or third-party companies in Switzerland and abroad, also providing for their leasing and sale. The company may also engage in activities related to the granting of loans, guarantees (including mortgages), endorsements, and sureties, even on behalf of third parties, excluding, however, the exercise of banking and insurance activities. The company can also buy, sell, distribute, manage, receive, and grant the use of technologies, know-how, patents, trademarks, intangible rights, licenses, and intellectual property rights in all sectors. The company may, in Switzerland and abroad, carry out all commercial, industrial, and financial operations or other operations deemed necessary or useful, functionally connected with the corporate purpose or aimed at achieving it. The company may establish branches or subsidiaries both in Switzerland and abroad.