The company's purpose is to participate directly or indirectly, finance, purchase and sell domestic and foreign industrial, commercial, service, intellectual property and financial companies or other legal entities. The company's purpose is to provide services to affiliated companies and third parties, in particular the management and settlement of payment flows, in particular with regard to customer claims, as well as services related to the implementation, execution and establishment of a franchise structure. The company may engage in similar business and take all actions that directly or indirectly promote the company's purpose. Excluded are legal and tax consulting as well as business that are subject to banking or investment legislation. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries abroad and take over representations. The company may also acquire other companies with the same or similar business purpose and participate in them. The company may conclude any type of corporate agreement and transfer its business and/or business areas in whole or in part to affiliated companies and/or entrust them to affiliated companies. It may combine companies in which it has a stake under its unified management or limit itself to managing the stake. The company is authorized to take all business and measures that serve or promote the aforementioned business purposes. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. Excluded are business that are prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). The company is part of a group and may consider the interests of the group in pursuing its business purpose. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including in the context of cash pooling agreements (including zero balancing), and provide collateral of all kinds for the liabilities of these parties, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind. This also applies without consideration, under preferential conditions, without interest, excluding the company's profitability and/or assuming cluster risks.