All import-export trading activities in petroleum goods and services, raw materials, as well as those related to jewelry; the financial acquisition and management of participations in other similar and competing companies. The company may: engage in any financial, commercial or industrial activity, movable or immovable, directly or indirectly related to its purpose; create branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in any company having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose. The company conducts its business in accordance with the objectives of the group to the extent possible. Therefore, the company may, in the interest of the group companies or any of them (including group companies that hold it, directly or indirectly, as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries), conclude contracts and, in particular, grant loans or other forms of financing to these group companies and provide all kinds of securities for their obligations, including through pledges, transfers or assignments for security purposes of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not.