The company's purpose is to trade in goods of all kinds, in particular cereals, as well as to provide related services. The company also aims to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of participations in Swiss and foreign companies of all kinds, in particular in the fields of trade and services (excluding operations prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners). The company may also establish companies of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad or merge with them. It may acquire, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate or buildings (if the real estate or buildings are located in Switzerland, they may only have a commercial use) or intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company may establish branches or agencies in Switzerland and abroad by decision of the managers. The company may engage in any commercial or financial activity related to its purpose. Furthermore, it may participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or to other group companies or by granting guarantees or other securities of any kind for their obligations to third parties, even if such loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of the said direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are granted gratuitously.