The company's purpose is to acquire, establish, hold, finance and manage as well as sell participations in companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may establish branches, representations and agencies in Switzerland and abroad, as well as found, participate in or merge with companies of any kind, or take over their management or representation. The company may enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the development and purpose of the company and are directly or indirectly related thereto. The company may grant loans or other financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries, as well as its direct and indirect parent companies and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, and to third parties, directly or indirectly, and provide collateral of any kind for the liabilities of such other parties, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. The company may conduct all other business that directly or indirectly promotes the aforementioned purposes.