The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of properties in Switzerland. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries and conduct all commercial, financial or other business that is suitable to promote the purpose of the company or is directly or indirectly related to it. The company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries, as well as to third parties and related persons, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide collateral of all kinds for the liabilities of these parties, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind. This also without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. In pursuing its corporate purpose, it may also take into account the interests of the group to which it belongs.