The company's purpose is to acquire and manage shareholdings in all types of financial, commercial, industrial, and real estate companies in Switzerland and abroad in the form of a holding company, as well as to grant loans or guarantees to shareholders or third parties, if this promotes its interests. It may, in Switzerland and abroad, create branches, participate in other companies, acquire companies with a different, identical, or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations, and conclude all contracts aimed at developing and extending its purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto.