The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of participations in other companies and to provide management and marketing services, in particular to subsidiaries and affiliated companies, in the following areas: financing through central fundraising and financing of subsidiaries and affiliated companies, internal asset management, provision of a central leadership and reporting system, exercise of board of directors' functions in subsidiaries and affiliated companies, market research in the interest of the entire company, legal and tax consulting, personnel consulting in the area of executives, as well as the management, acquisition and exploitation of industrial property rights and the granting and representation of license rights. The company may enter into all transactions, conclude contracts and grant loans that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. Furthermore, it may acquire real estate, establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in or merge with other companies, broker transactions and trade in goods of all kinds.