The purpose of the company is the trade and manufacture of wood parquet and related secondary products, trade and production of machines for the manufacture of parquet and the granting of licenses for the production of parquet in Switzerland and abroad. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, encumber and sell real estate, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad and hold such participations, grant loans or other financing to other group companies and provide security of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, in particular in the form of guarantees of any kind and pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets.