The company's purpose is to engage in global trade in agricultural products, particularly grain varieties, maize, wheat, barley, soybeans, flax and rapeseed, and sugar, as well as raw materials of all kinds; to carry out and coordinate all related business and services in Switzerland and abroad, including trade in fuels, agricultural machinery and spare parts. The company also aims to operate an asset management and trust company. The company is authorized to participate in any form in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, and to acquire and sell patents, licenses, securities, and real estate in Switzerland and abroad. Furthermore, the company may acquire, encumber, manage, sell, and establish subsidiaries and branches abroad, and in general, conduct all business related to its purpose and the investment of its assets. The company may grant direct or indirect loans or other financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries, as well as its direct or indirect parent companies and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and to third parties, and provide security of all kinds for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets, or by guarantees, sureties of any kind, whether paid or unpaid.