The company's purpose is to establish, participate in, manage, supervise, advise and provide services to other companies and enterprises of any kind; to provide periodic services; to finance companies and enterprises; to lend, borrow and collect funds, as specified in the articles of association; to provide guarantees, to commit in favor of companies and enterprises with which the company is affiliated, and for third parties; to acquire, sell, encumber, operate, rent, lease, and otherwise acquire or dispose of registered assets on its own account or on behalf of third parties; to trade in currencies, securities and assets in general; to exploit and trade patents, design rights, licenses, know-how and other industrial property rights; to carry out all kinds of industrial, financial and economic activities; wholesale and retail trade in consumer goods; and all that is connected with or conducive to the foregoing, in the broadest sense of the word.