The company's purpose is the wholesale trade in live or dead animals, market research, marketing, support, information, design, assistance, organization and mediation activities in commercial, economic, administrative and similar fields, as well as the trade and transport of goods, commercial brokerage, and the management, rental, purchase and sale of agricultural businesses. The company may also acquire, sell, manage, receive and grant the use of technologies, technical know-how, industrial patents, trademarks, licenses and intellectual property rights in general, particularly in the aforementioned sectors. Furthermore, the company may acquire, encumber, manage, administer and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, as well as participate in real estate companies and enterprises with headquarters and/or activities in Switzerland and abroad, in compliance with applicable regulations. Any activity carried out in the real estate sector is not directed towards third parties but is exclusively limited to real estate for its own account. The company may assume, on its own account and not in a fiduciary capacity, interests and participations in other industrial, commercial, financial and service companies in Switzerland or abroad, in the sector related to the company's purpose or in other sectors. Finally, the company may carry out all commercial, industrial and financial operations deemed necessary or useful and functionally connected with the company's purpose or aimed at achieving it, and open branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad.