Acquisition, permanent management, brokerage and exploitation of participations and assets of all kinds in other domestic and foreign companies, provision of all services conditioned by the holding function, such as coordination, financing, consulting and management tasks, as well as trade in goods of all kinds. The company may acquire, hold, license, exploit and sell trademarks, patents, industrial property rights, know-how and other intangible assets such as invention patents, industrial designs and models, factory and trade marks, acquire, encumber, manage and sell real estate, establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad and take over their management and administration.