both in Switzerland and abroad: all marketing, purchasing and/or sales, trading, distribution, import and export operations, on a commission, brokerage, direct or otherwise, wholesale, semi-wholesale and retail, for its own account or for the account of third parties, to all individuals and professionals, of all goods, products, merchandise, construction materials, aggregates and mineral supplies, raw or derived, for all sectors including construction, industry, agriculture, public works and civil engineering, or any services of any nature related to or promoting the aforementioned activities; the creation, acquisition, rental, lease management of all business assets, the leasing, installation, operation of all establishments, business assets, factories, workshops related to one or more of the aforementioned activities; the rental of all vehicles, equipment and tools related to the aforementioned activities; the acquisition, exploitation or transfer of all processes and patents related to all the aforementioned activities. The company may also: either for its own account or for the account of third parties, carry out all financial, commercial, industrial, movable and immovable operations, in Switzerland and abroad, directly or indirectly related to the main purpose; grant loans or any other form of financing, and provide guarantees of any kind, for the direct or indirect benefit of its shareholders, companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the company's assets.