The company's purpose is the trade, import, export, purchase, sale, brokerage, rental and leasing of raw and processed cotton and raw materials for the textile industry and textile products; it may enter into any legal transaction and commercial or financial transaction in the field of cotton trade and brokerage and its derivative products. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including shareholders of the company or companies in which they participate, either through loans or other financing methods, or through guarantees of any kind, with or without consideration. The company may acquire and sell real estate and may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other Swiss or foreign companies, acquire or establish companies of the same kind, as well as enter into all transactions and contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are in any case in direct or indirect relation to the achievement of this purpose.