The purpose of the company is to carry out all financing transactions, including the provision of related services. The company may, in particular, provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, perform cash management and related activities, open bank accounts, and grant direct or indirect financing to domestic and foreign companies, especially in the areas of air and community catering, retail in transportation, manufacture, processing, sale, and distribution of food, beverages, and related products, and the manufacture of equipment for catering businesses and related fields. Furthermore, the company may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with affiliated companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing. This may also be done under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming bulk risks. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold, manage, utilize, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights. The company may engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities that appear suitable to promote the realization of its purpose, which are in the interest of the gategroup group or its group companies, or which are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company may also grant direct or indirect financing to affiliated companies, provide collateral of all kinds (including by way of pledges, fiduciary transfers, or assignments of the company's assets) or guarantees, enter into suretyships, or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of the company or affiliated companies, even if such collateral or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of their direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies, whether or not for consideration.