Purchase, sale, financing, holding and management of participations of all kinds in domestic and foreign companies, as well as the performance of related coordination, financing and management tasks. May establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, acquire, manage and sell real estate, securities, patents and other industrial property rights, 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.