The company's purpose is to manufacture, market and distribute chocolate products, confectionery and bakery products as well as related products and other food products, as well as to operate restaurants. It can grant and acquire licenses for this purpose in Switzerland and abroad. The company can participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and carry out all legal transactions that may be necessary or suitable to promote the company's purpose or the development of group companies. The company can provide direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, and companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets, or guarantees and sureties of any kind, also for third parties, whether for consideration or not.