The company's purpose is to provide, in Switzerland and/or abroad, all services in the fields of product design, product development, marketing, business and market development, as well as management consulting; to file, acquire, hold, and sell all 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, cash pooling agreements) to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and/or to third parties, including its direct and/or indirect affiliates as well as the direct and indirect subsidiaries of these affiliates; to provide guarantees of any kind, whether paid or unpaid, and/or any other form of security, whether paid or unpaid, to one or more affiliates, to one or more companies in the group 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 affiliates, of one or more companies in the group of which the Company is a part and/or of one or more third parties, provided that this is in the interest of the Company.