The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of participations in other companies and to provide management and marketing services, in particular to subsidiaries, in the following areas: group financing through central fundraising and financing of subsidiaries, internal asset management, provision of a central leadership and reporting system, exercise of board of directors functions in subsidiaries, market research in the interest of the entire group, legal and tax consulting at group level, personnel consulting in the area of executives, as well as management, acquisition and exploitation of industrial property rights and granting and representation of license rights. The company may enter into all transactions, conclude contracts and grant loans that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. Furthermore, it may acquire real estate, establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in or merge with other companies, broker transactions and trade in goods of all kinds.