The purpose of the company is to provide food (including ready meals) and to render any related services, in particular in the areas of transport, including air, rail and sea transport, airport lounge catering, stadium and arena lounges, events, catering services based on contracts (stadiums and arenas), retail, advertising and promotional activities within the aforementioned areas, logistics, distribution, catering and packaging. The company may also develop and operate online portals and other IT solutions for this purpose. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, found subsidiaries, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, and acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide security of any kind for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it may engage in cash pooling with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. This may also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks. The company may also carry out any commercial, financial and other activities that appear suitable to promote the company's purpose or are related to it.