The purpose of the company is to support innovation management through scouting new technologies and business models, as well as the development, manufacture, brokerage, and distribution of IT systems of all kinds. This includes, in particular, establishing and initiating cooperation with startups, associations, IT companies, and investors, as well as the sale, installation, and provision of hardware and software products and related services. Further tasks include the analysis, concept development, economically successful implementation, and control of digital innovations, especially in the retail and fintech sectors. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies, take over representations, and engage in any business activity and conclude contracts of any kind that may promote or be directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company can 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). The company is part of the FEMSA group and may consider the interests of the group in pursuing its purpose. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries, as well as to 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 collateral of any kind for the obligations of these parties, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind. This may also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, to the exclusion of the company's profitability, and/or by assuming cluster risks.