The company's purpose is to acquire, sell and manage participations of all kinds in domestic and foreign companies, as well as to perform related coordination, financing and management tasks. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in, acquire or lease similar or related companies in Switzerland and abroad, take out and grant loans, take out credits, acquire, encumber and sell real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.