The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in all forms of financial, commercial, industrial, movable and immovable enterprises in Switzerland and abroad in the form of a holding company, as well as to grant loans or guarantees to shareholders or third parties, if it serves its interests. It may, in Switzerland and abroad, establish branches, participate in other companies, acquire companies with a different, identical or analogous purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts suitable for developing and expanding its purpose or directly or indirectly related to it.