The company's purpose is: the purchase, sale, import, export and international trade of all products, goods, raw materials and other agricultural products, as well as brokerage and chartering of all goods, on its own account and on behalf of third parties, or as an agent, in the field of international, maritime, inland, land or air transport; the purchase, sale and management of participations in companies in Switzerland and abroad, the issuance of loans, including in the form of bonds, as well as the provision of all services in these areas; real estate transactions prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners are excluded (for the complete purpose, see the articles of association).