The company's purpose is to establish, acquire and hold participations, as well as to support and dispose of companies, to make direct or indirect capital investments in real estate and land, their development, acquisition, holding and sale, and/or to participate in real estate companies and to generate income and/or capital gains, as well as to purchase, sell and hold participations in other companies, their management and financing: it can make investments in private or listed individual companies as well as in other investment vehicles, and establish subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. It can also provide financing for its own account or for third-party account, as well as provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties. It can generally provide consulting and management services. The company can acquire, hold, license and exploit brands, patents, industrial property rights and know-how, other intellectual property rights such as invention patents, industrial designs and models, factory and trade marks.