The company's purpose is to manufacture, develop, import, export, purchase, sell, license, market, distribute, provide, repair, install, program and maintain health products, pharmaceutical products, medical devices and related therapies, products and services in its own name and on its own account or as a commercial agent or commissioner. The company may acquire, hold, manage, exploit and transfer participations of any kind in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage, exploit and transfer real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other industrial and commercial companies and establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies or by providing guarantees or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies or are granted free of charge. Furthermore, the company may conduct any business that appears to promote the purpose of the company or is related to it.