The company's purpose is to operate public establishments, such as tea rooms, bakeries, pastry shops, restaurants, as well as the production and trade of all types of products. The company also aims to acquire, purchase, sell, import-export, market, rent and broker all types of movable or immovable properties, administer and manage participations in all companies or enterprises, directly or indirectly, in Switzerland and abroad, excluding operations subject to the LFAIE. The company may also engage in any other activity having a direct or indirect connection with these purposes; it may notably create branches in Switzerland and abroad, grant or receive loans from or in favor of its associates, as well as from or to all companies of the same group, participate in other enterprises in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts intended to develop and expand its purpose or related thereto directly or indirectly.