Provision for the employees of the founding company and the affiliated companies as well as their dependents and survivors by granting voluntary support in cases of old age, death, illness, accident, disability, unemployment and unprovoked hardship; provision of employer contributions in accordance with Art. 331 para. 3 OR from previously accumulated and separately disclosed contribution reserves, whereby the foundation can provide such contributions to other tax-exempt pension institutions that the founding company has joined or established itself; financing of benefit increases and purchase amounts from free foundation funds within the framework of equal treatment for employees of the founding company or the affiliated companies to other tax-exempt pension institutions.