Holding, managing and exploiting intellectual property rights, consulting other companies in all areas as well as sales, installation and maintenance of human resources and management software. May establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, as well as conduct all business directly or indirectly related to its purpose, acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad, grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect parent companies and their direct or indirect subsidiaries on market terms or without consideration, and provide security of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on the company's assets or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets, or by way of guarantees of any kind. The company thereby safeguards, to the exclusion of its own profit motive, the interests of its parent company and the entire group of companies, to the extent permitted by mandatory law.