The company's purpose is to plan, produce, distribute, represent, market, import and export products and chemicals in the field of water treatment, hygiene and related services, as well as to develop and market food supplements, mainly from bee products and other natural substances. The company may also carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to this main purpose or promote it. Within the framework of the legal provisions, it may acquire, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, and acquire, manage and dispose of participations in other companies in Switzerland and abroad through a decision of the management, as well as establish branches and agencies in Switzerland or abroad. The company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to group companies and third parties, including its (direct and indirect) shareholders and their group companies, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. It may also carry out financing transactions for the benefit of other companies that are legally or economically related to it.