The company's purpose is to carry out, in Switzerland and/or abroad, any commercial operation related to the field of prevention, improvement and maintenance of health in a comprehensive and transversal approach (micronutrition, etc.) including, but not limited to, research, development, manufacturing, promotion (advertising, etc.), marketing in any form, export, import, rental and distribution; the supply of all goods (components, semi-finished products, finished products, etc.) and/or services related thereto to third parties, including, but not limited to, creative services, data management services and project management services; to file, acquire, hold and sell patents or any intellectual property rights and to acquire, hold and grant licenses; to grant loans and/or other direct or indirect financing (including, but not limited to, within the framework of cash pooling agreements) to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and/or to third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders as well as the direct and indirect subsidiaries of these shareholders; to provide guarantees of any kind, remunerated or not, and/or any other form of security, remunerated or not, to one or more shareholders, to one or more group companies of which the Company is a part and/or to one or more third parties in order to guarantee the commitments and/or obligations of one or more shareholders, one or more group companies of which the Company is a part and/or one or more third parties, provided that this is in the interest of the Company.