The company's purpose is to acquire, sell, hold and manage participations in companies of all kinds at home and abroad, as well as to perform related coordination, financing and management tasks. Furthermore, the company's purpose is to trade and distribute goods of all kinds, in particular products in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sector as well as medical devices. In addition, the company may acquire, manage and sell industrial property rights, know-how and intellectual property rights, as well as enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may also acquire, hold, encumber and sell real estate at home and abroad, with the exception of real estate transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). The company may also engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that are related to the company's main purpose. It may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as enter into guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.