The company's purpose is to trade in Europe with mineral fertilizers and other chemical products, provide market-related advisory services for fertilizers, receive, analyze, process and distribute commercial, scientific and technical information, evaluate requests for specific product offerings, and provide marketing, exchange and intermediary services, among other things, within foreign economic activities, including export, import, customs clearance and shipping. The company may acquire, hold or sell assets (including intellectual property rights) and participations, and may acquire real estate in Switzerland and abroad. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and the direct or indirect subsidiaries of these, and may provide any kind of guarantee for the obligations of these companies, including pledges or fiduciary assignments of the company's assets or any kind of guarantees, for consideration or free of charge.