The company's purpose is to hold and manage participations in other companies worldwide, particularly in the field of pharmacies. It can acquire, manage or sell real estate and intellectual property rights, as well as enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company directly or indirectly, or which concern the investment and management of the company's assets. The company can grant loans or other financings of any kind to its direct or indirect parent companies as well as their or its direct or indirect subsidiary companies, and provide securities of any kind for liabilities of such other companies, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments, security transfers, security assignments and indemnification declarations, whether remunerated or not. For this purpose, the company may also act in the interest of the group or individual group companies.