The company's purpose is to acquire, sell and manage participations of all kinds in domestic and foreign companies, as well as related coordination, financing and management tasks. The company can acquire, manage and exploit industrial property rights and know-how. It can establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, establish, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, acquire, manage or sell real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.