The company's purpose is to provide services in the areas of forwarding, logistics and transport, as well as in real estate management, including renting, brokering and managing real estate, excluding transactions subject to authorization under the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, set up subsidiaries, participate in related companies, and acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell properties and material rights. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their (direct or indirect) subsidiaries, and provide security for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges, fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets or guarantees, enter into joint and several liability or suretyships, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, the company may engage in cash pooling with the aforementioned companies, including periodic account balancing, or join such an arrangement, including without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that appear to promote the company's purpose, are related to it, or are in the interest of the GEMEX group of companies or its group companies.