The company's purpose is to hold and manage participations. The company can provide services, in particular in the areas of management, marketing, corporate consulting, finance and administration, to companies and associations that are ideologically or economically connected to it. The company can conduct all business and take measures that are suitable to promote the company's purpose directly or indirectly, such as acquiring, managing, using, encumbering and disposing of enterprises of all kinds, real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, establishing branches and agencies, granting loans, managing capital and providing guarantees in favor of affiliated companies. The company can provide direct or indirect financing to companies and associations that are ideologically or economically connected to it, whether through loans and/or other financing, with or without consideration. The company can provide security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including through pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or through offset obligations, with or without consideration, even if such financing, security or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such are directly or indirectly involved.