The purpose of the company is to hold and manage participations in companies of all kinds at home and abroad, as well as to finance them and grant loans. The company can establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them, acquire, manage and sell real estate, patents and licenses, 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.