The company's purpose is the acquisition and administration of shareholdings in companies or enterprises in Switzerland or abroad active in all commercial fields, including the sale, purchase, maintenance, leasing of all movable and immovable property, acquisitions, sales, leasing of goods of all kinds, import and export of all materials. The company may create branches in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or establish companies that have an identical or similar purpose, carry out all operations, conclude all contracts suitable for developing the company's purpose or directly or indirectly related to it. It may carry out all commercial and financial operations in direct or indirect relation to its purpose or suitable for developing it. It may grant loans to its partners or to third parties and acquire real estate.