The company's purpose is to provide services in the electronics and data communication sector and the related industrial and commercial activities, in particular design, manufacturing, sales, leasing, import and export of machines, equipment, components, computer software and other products and services of the aforementioned industries. The company may own and control shares, participations, securities, real estate and other assets in Switzerland and abroad, establish branches and subsidiaries, acquire, hold, manage and sell participations in domestic and foreign companies, and rent, acquire, lease, hold, encumber or sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad (excluding transactions subject to the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad). The company may control the operations of its subsidiaries and other business units and plan and implement financially appropriate investments. As a parent company, the company may also take care of the common tasks of its group companies, such as administration and finance. Furthermore, the company may trade in securities and real estate, its own securities, real estate and patents, and carry out other legal business transactions. The company may provide financial services to its direct and indirect shareholders and other affiliated companies, in particular grant loans or other financing and provide collateral of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges, security assignments and security transfers of the company's assets, or guarantees and sureties of all kinds, for consideration or not. The company may also participate in cash pooling operations within the group and raise and invest money on the money and capital markets. The company may also act in the interest of the group or individual group companies for this purpose. The company may conduct all other commercial, financial or other business that is directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose.