The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and sell participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds, particularly in the fields of trade and services. It can finance other companies. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, for its own liabilities as well as those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), provide securities of all kinds, 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 company's or these other companies' obligations, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, 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. The company can carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that appear suitable to promote the company's purpose or are related to it.