The company's purpose is to provide information services and to publish and distribute information media of all kinds in all suitable forms and on all distribution channels, as well as to hold and license author's rights. The company may engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them. It may acquire, manage, encumber and sell real estate, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds.