The company's purpose is to acquire, lease, manage and sell participations in companies of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad, to provide unified management and to take over the management and representation of companies, as well as to provide management, leadership, control and monitoring functions, and to provide consulting and other services in the fields of business administration and commerce in the participating companies and to third parties, and to manage company shares and assets; to broker, acquire, sell, rent, lease, manage and encumber real estate, equivalent rights and buildings, including buildings on foreign land or properties, and co-ownership shares in such properties; to transport, import and export, and trade in vehicles of all kinds, as well as spare parts and accessories, and to maintain and distribute goods and provide services related thereto; to rent, lease and lease-purchase economic goods, to factor, to forfeit and to broker such contracts; to carry out financing for its own or third-party account, to arrange credit and financial transactions for participating companies, and to secure transactions, including granting guarantees and sureties, pledges, global assignments, security transfers, security assignments and damage-free declarations for participating companies and third parties, even if these legal transactions are in their exclusive interest; to broker business contacts and orders; to trade, import and export, buy and sell, including online shops and mail-order business, to broker material and immaterial investment and consumer goods, including food and luxury goods, on its own and third-party account, as well as related consulting; to develop, acquire, use, sell, license intellectual property rights, such as patents, copyrights and trademark rights, for procedures, patents or licenses used in these industries. The company may operate in related fields and is authorized to carry out all business and measures that appear to promote the company's purpose directly or indirectly. It is authorized to establish branches under its name in Switzerland and abroad.