The purpose of the company is to hold and manage participations in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, grant and transfer licenses, patents, trademarks as well as technical and industrial know-how. It can carry out all legal transactions that are connected with the company's purpose, in particular acquire, hold and sell real estate, raise and invest funds on the money and capital market, establish companies, participate in companies or cooperate with third parties in other ways. It can grant loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other affiliated companies, conclude cash pooling agreements with them and provide securities of all kinds for their liabilities towards third parties, including pledges or security assignments of its own assets or guarantees of any kind, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or affiliated companies and are granted free of charge.