The company's purpose is the acquisition, holding, financing, sale and transfer of participations in all Swiss and foreign companies and enterprises, whether financial, industrial, commercial, movable or immovable, except for operations prohibited by the LFAIE, the import, export, purchase, sale and marketing of natural and biological products, as well as all related services and consulting. The company may: - carry out any financial, commercial or industrial, movable or immovable activity directly or indirectly related to its purpose; - establish branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; - participate in all enterprises having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose; - grant loans or guarantees to associates, subsidiaries, parent companies, sister companies or third parties, if it serves its interests or those of the group of companies to which it belongs; - carry out any cash pooling activity for the account of the group to which it belongs.