The company's purpose is the manufacture, processing and distribution of food and beverages, particularly meat and sausage products and grilled goods of all kinds. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them, 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. It may acquire, manage, encumber and sell real estate, copyrights, patents and licenses of all kinds.