The company's purpose is to distribute and trade technical devices and instruments of all kinds, including software applications, as well as provide the corresponding repair services, both domestically and internationally. It can acquire, register, manage, exploit and transfer industrial property rights and know-how, participate directly or indirectly in other companies, establish branches and found subsidiaries, acquire, manage and sell properties and rights thereto, grant loans or other financing to other group companies in the interest of the Leica Geosystems group and provide security of any kind for liabilities of such other group companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets, or by way of guarantees of any kind; conduct all business directly related to the aforementioned purposes; and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly suitable to promote the achievement of the company's purpose.