The company's purpose is to trade and distribute beverages of all kinds and related non-food goods. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies, take over representations, and engage in any business activity and conclude any type of contract that may be beneficial to the company's purpose or is directly or indirectly related to it. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, except for transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). In pursuing its purpose, the company may take into account the interests of its shareholders. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements (including zero balancing), and provide security of any kind for the obligations of these parties, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind. This may be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, to the exclusion of the company's profitability, and/or by assuming cluster risks.