The company's purpose is to manage and operate an agricultural business and to produce and trade in agricultural products of all kinds, as well as to manage and operate properties. The company is authorized to acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate. 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 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 acquire, manage, encumber and sell properties, copyrights, patents and licenses of all kinds.