The company's purpose is to manufacture, purchase, sell and supply glass and its components, as well as any product made entirely or partially of glass. The company may shape glass (treat, blow, mold) by any process; it may color, tint, adjust, cut, polish, grind, engrave, etc., as well as perform any work and implement any manufacturing or transformation process for glass, glassware and glass products of all kinds. The company may grant, directly or indirectly, funds to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide any type of guarantee for its own liabilities or for the liabilities of other companies (including the direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are direct or indirect shareholders), including pledges, trust transfers or fiduciary assignments of the company's assets or provide guarantees, conclude security agreements, or insure or guarantee in any other way the liabilities of the company or these other companies, with or without consideration and even if it is exclusively in the interest of these other companies. Furthermore, the company may centralize the net cash of the treasury (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies, or participate in such cash pooling, including periodic rebalancing of accounts (balancing). This also without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, without seeking the profit of the company or by pooling risks. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries as well as acquire, hold and dispose of participations in Switzerland or abroad. The company may acquire, hold and dispose of real estate as well as patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs and any other intellectual property rights, in Switzerland or abroad. The company may also carry out all operations that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose or that promote or facilitate its development.