The company's purpose is to engage in wholesale and trade in electricity, wholesale and trade in goods of all kinds, in particular with other machines, equipment and accessories, wholesale and trade in other semi-finished goods, wholesale and trade without a specific focus, business consulting and market research, in particular in Switzerland and in the EU countries as well as abroad. Furthermore, the company aims to acquire, manage and dispose of participations and financing in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company can establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies. In addition, the company can acquire, manage and dispose of industrial property rights, know-how, intellectual property rights, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It can acquire, hold, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, with the exception of real estate transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). The company can grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to group companies and third parties, including its (direct and indirect) shareholders and their group companies, and provide securities of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. It can also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.