The company's purpose is to hold and manage participations of all kinds as well as to finance companies. The company can acquire, develop, manage, and exploit patents, licenses, innovations, and manufacturing processes, trade in goods and products of all kinds, finance and promote any type of business, conduct fiduciary business, acquire, manage, and dispose of real estate and buildings, operate related business areas, participate in any kind of enterprises, and conduct all business to the extent necessary or useful for achieving its main purpose. It can acquire or establish subsidiaries, branches, and agencies. The company operates in Switzerland and abroad.