The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and dispose of participations in other companies, primarily in the hotel industry, to establish, operate and lease or sublease any type of hotel business and catering industry business in Switzerland and abroad, to provide operational consulting, management on its own account or on behalf of hotels and restaurants in Switzerland and abroad, to trade in products of any kind, in particular in connection with the hotel industry (but not limited to this), as well as to provide training and further education for executives in the catering and hotel industry and to broker services for the hotel and catering industry. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies. The company is authorized to acquire, encumber, sell and manage licenses, patents and other intangible assets as well as real estate in Switzerland and abroad, to conduct investment and lending transactions of any kind, and to provide guarantees. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders or shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not. Furthermore, it may operate a liquidity adjustment / concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account settlement (zero balancing), also under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. In addition, the company may conduct any business and engage in any commercial, financial and other activities that are suitable to promote the company's purpose or are directly or indirectly related to it.