The company's purpose is to trade, distribute, import and export goods of all kinds, in particular coffee machines, spare parts and accessories. The company may trade in financial instruments in its own name and on its own account, acquire, manage and dispose of participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and dispose of business establishments, real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and furthermore carry out all legal transactions that may be necessary or suitable to promote the purpose of the company or the development of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders and companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether by means of loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by means of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by means of guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.