The company's purpose is to trade, finance, store and/or transport goods, including agricultural products such as vegetable oils, grains and flours, in particular sunflower oil and energy products such as oil, gas, diesel, gasoline and gas pipelines, as well as to market, trade and ship industrial equipment such as electrical generators, spare parts for agricultural machinery, equipment and spare parts for power plants and spare parts in general. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and conduct all business that is connected with its purpose or is suitable to promote its development or the development of the group. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.