The company's purpose is to acquire and sell as well as manage participations and to carry out financing transactions, in particular in the areas of the packaging industry and tool manufacturing. It can make investments in private or listed individual companies as well as in other investment vehicles, and establish subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. It can also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as enter into guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties. The company can acquire, hold, license and exploit brands, patents, industrial property rights and know-how, other intellectual property rights such as invention patents, industrial designs and models, and factory and trade marks.