The company's purpose is to process food, manufacture additives for the food industry, produce computer hardware and software, provide information technology services, refine vehicles, provide related services, and trade in goods of all kinds. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, and enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire, manage, encumber, and dispose of real estate, intellectual property rights, and licenses of all kinds. It may also provide financing for its own account or for third-party account, as well as provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.