The cooperative aims to promote the trade of food and non-food products, as well as their production and marketing, in a socially, ecologically and economically responsible manner through joint self-help. To achieve this purpose, the cooperative may establish branches, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, acquire or sell real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the cooperative directly or indirectly, in particular through: maintaining an adequate fleet of vehicles; using sustainably produced consumables; promoting and respecting cultural assets; marketing raw materials and products with clean and fair trade and adequate financial participation of the countries of origin; acquiring and promoting suitable patents and intellectual property rights and their joint management and marketing, including those of cooperative members; conducting purposeful courses, training sessions, seminars and information events; realizing and mediating financing and investments of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad at favorable conditions; creating and mediating employment and job creation programs for socially disadvantaged people and their reintegration into the workforce; and rehabilitating cooperative members in business difficulties.