The purpose of the company is to acquire, hold, manage, utilize, and dispose of direct or indirect participations in companies of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad, particularly in the field of distribution and logistics, as well as to provide management, consulting, and other services related to these activities. The company may establish branches, both domestically and abroad, found subsidiaries, and acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and dispose of real estate and intangible property rights. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries. It may also provide securities of all kinds for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into sureties, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for a fee or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) or join such an arrangement with the aforementioned companies, including periodic account balancing (balancing). This may be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the profit-seeking nature of the company, and assuming clustering risks. Additionally, the company may engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities that seem suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are related thereto.