The company's purpose is to trade in and distribute IT products as well as to conduct all related service transactions. The company may also develop, acquire and exploit intellectual property rights of all kinds. Furthermore, the company may establish branches, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, acquire or sell real estate. The company may also enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company directs its business activities, to the extent permitted, towards the group's goals. Accordingly, the company may, in the interest of the group or individual group companies (including their direct or indirect parent companies and their direct or indirect subsidiaries), conclude contracts and, in particular, grant loans or other financing to such group companies and provide security for their liabilities of all kinds, including by way of pledges or security assignments and transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.