The company's purpose is the purchase, sale, and trade of chocolate, confectionery, beverages, and foodstuffs, including import-export, trade, and representation of all raw materials and manufactured or unmanufactured products, as well as the production and sale in Switzerland and abroad of all goods related to chocolate production. The company may: carry out, either for its own account or for the account of third parties, all financial, commercial, or industrial activities, movable or immovable, in direct or indirect relation with its main purpose or capable of promoting it, and take an interest, in any form, in all enterprises having an analogous or related purpose to its own. create subsidiaries or branches both in Switzerland and abroad; grant loans or guarantees to shareholders or to third parties, if this promotes its interests.