The purpose of the company is to buy, sell, exchange, lend, import and export, transport, distribute and trade all products, energetic and non-energetic, including crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, electricity, coal, chemicals, grains, animal and vegetable oils, biofuels, as well as all transactions with financial instruments or contracts related to such products or goods, and all related activities and services; to provide related ancillary services, such as chartering, owning, equipping and/or operating ships and related activities, storing, assembling and processing all products in the energy and raw materials sector, insurance, inspection and other services, acquiring, encumbering, managing, administering and selling real estate in Switzerland and abroad, as well as participating in industrial, real estate, commercial, financial and service companies and enterprises with their registered office and/or activities in Switzerland and abroad, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations; to participate directly or indirectly in other companies or industrial, commercial, financial and service enterprises in Switzerland or abroad, whether in the field of the company's purpose or in other fields, and to establish branches and subsidiaries abroad; to carry out all commercial, industrial and financial transactions that appear necessary or useful in connection with the company's purpose or are suitable for achieving the company's purpose. The company may also establish branches in Switzerland and abroad.