The company's purpose is to conduct training and instruction in education and further education, provide transportation services, and trade in goods of all kinds. The company may acquire, manage and sell copyrights, patents and licenses of all kinds, establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad, provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, grant guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties, and trade in shares, options and similar instruments and conclude currency transactions.