The company's purpose is to participate in companies in Switzerland and abroad, particularly in the fields of human and animal health, food, dietetics, health and wellness, as well as in related fields. The company can acquire, sell or exploit all patents, manufacturing processes, designs and models, trademarks and other intellectual property rights related to its activities. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can carry out or manage all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose, taking into account, to the extent permitted by law, the interests and general orientation of the group to which the company belongs. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide security of any kind for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. All of this can be done by the company without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks.