The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in commercial, financial and industrial companies of all kinds, and to provide financial and management support to the companies of the group. The company may also carry out all operations that are directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and that promote or facilitate its development. The company may grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect parent companies as well as to their or its direct or indirect subsidiary companies, and may provide collateral of all kinds for its own liabilities and the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.