The company's purpose is: to acquire or establish, manage and dispose of participations in domestic and foreign companies. To own, purchase and sell, rent and manage, as well as plan and develop properties and plots of land in Switzerland and abroad. To advise companies, provide and broker related services, as well as trade in technical products and consumer goods of all kinds. To provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as to grant guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties. The company may enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company, or that are directly or indirectly related to it, and may also establish branches nationally and internationally, participate in or merge with other companies.