The company's purpose is to acquire, sell and manage participations in commercial, financial, real estate and industrial companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can establish its own companies or participate in existing ones, finance and promote them. The company can grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries, either for consideration or free of charge, and provide collateral of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfer of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind. The company can undertake anything that, in the opinion of its management, promotes the purpose of the company or serves the use of its available resources.