The production, research and trade of chemical, pharmaceutical, medicinal specialties, nutritional, para-pharmaceutical, cosmetic, dietary and related products related to health. The company can carry out all securities, real estate and financial transactions related to the company's purpose, even in a broad sense. It can therefore participate in any form and manner in other companies established or to be established, take interests and participations in any form in other commercial and industrial enterprises, regardless of their purpose, assume ownership of trademarks and patents and carry out, without any restriction, all those operations that are deemed suitable to achieve or favor the achievement of the company's purpose, including the commercial rental of its properties. The company may grant financing and assume guarantees of any kind, even gratuitously, in favor of companies directly or indirectly controlled by it and third parties (including its direct or indirect shareholders as well as companies directly or indirectly controlled by them). The company may open branches both in Switzerland and abroad, as well as carry out all operations that have a direct or indirect relationship with the company's purpose.