The company's purpose is to engage in wholesale trade, particularly with agricultural raw materials and products, on the global market, as well as all activities related thereto. The company may establish representations, subsidiaries, and branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies, take over representations, and enter into any business that may be suitable to promote the company's purpose or is directly or indirectly related thereto. Furthermore, the company may acquire real estate in Switzerland and abroad, with the exception of those properties subject to the Federal Property Law. The company may also provide financing for its own account or for third-party accounts, in particular, financing of participating companies, as well as guarantees and sureties for affiliated companies and third parties. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), provide securities of all kinds, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into sureties, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Additionally, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing. This may also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks.