The company's purpose is to acquire, finance, manage and sell participations in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, particularly in the field of dentistry and dental technology. It can take over management tasks, particularly in the areas of finance, personnel, communication, IT, projects and strategy, and provide all related services. It can establish branches abroad, found subsidiaries, participate in related companies, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell real estate and intellectual property rights, and perform all legal transactions that may be necessary to achieve the company's purpose. The company can provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide securities of all kinds, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or guarantees for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved). It can also enter into solidarity or guarantee obligations or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. This can also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks.