The company's purpose is to provide business consulting, investments, provision, brokerage, sale and commercialization of services and products in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, encumber and sell real estate. It is authorized to participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, to establish or acquire such companies, or to set up branches. Furthermore, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to other companies within the group, including direct or indirect parent or sister companies, as well as to third parties, including through cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for any obligations of these other companies within the group, in particular in the form of guarantees or sureties, as well as pledges or security assignments of the company's shares, even if such financing or security is granted in the interest of its direct or indirect parent or sister companies or other companies within the group and is provided free of charge.