The retail and/or wholesale trade and import-export of the following items: manufactured clothing items of any type and quality, textile products of any type and quality including those for home furnishings, silverware, jewelry and watchmaking; products for personal use, for the home, for sports and leisure, cultural, artistic and collectible items. The company may engage in consulting and management organization activities for third parties in the aforementioned activities, excluding protected professional activities; the company may also, in addition, build, contract out to third parties the construction of buildings and premises for the performance of the aforementioned activities. The company may acquire, encumber, manage, administer and sell real estate, as well as participate in real estate companies and enterprises within the limits set by the LAFE and applicable laws. The company may also assume interests and participations in other companies, both in Switzerland and abroad, engaged in related, complementary or instrumental activities to its own, as well as carry out all commercial, financial or other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company may open branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad.