The company's purpose is to engage in all intermediary activities related to raw materials and their derivatives, goods and products of all kinds, as well as provide services and advice in connection therewith, in Switzerland and abroad. The company may: - carry out any financial, commercial or industrial activity, whether movable or immovable (except for operations prohibited by the LFAIE), directly or indirectly related to its purpose; - establish branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; - participate in any enterprise having a direct or indirect connection with its purpose; - grant loans or guarantees to associates, subsidiaries, parent companies, sister companies or third parties, if it serves its interests or those of the group of companies to which it belongs; - carry out any cash pooling activity for the account of the group to which it belongs.