The company's purpose is to provide IT and multimedia services to businesses and individuals in Switzerland and abroad, to buy and sell computer hardware and software, and to perform various service activities in the field of passenger and goods transport. Furthermore, it may, either on its own account or on behalf of third parties, carry out all financial, commercial, movable and immovable property transactions (except for transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners) that are directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and may, in any form, participate in all companies, in particular by acquiring interests; the company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; grant loans or any other form of financing, and provide guarantees of any kind, for the direct or indirect benefit of its associates, companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the company's assets.