Production, distribution, as well as consulting and provision of services in the field of food and consumer goods. The company can take up related business areas, participate in or acquire other companies in Switzerland and abroad, sell or establish new companies, participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or affiliated companies or providing guarantees or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other affiliated companies and were granted free of charge, acquire, exploit and broker industrial property rights, intellectual property rights, know-how, exclusivity rights, as well as acquire, hold and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad.