The purchase, holding, management and sale of movable and immovable assets and participations in any form in all kinds of companies and financial, industrial, commercial and real estate enterprises; the financing of the companies in which it has a stake, the control and coordination of their activities. The company may operate as a general construction company; it may carry out, in Switzerland and abroad, all activities and operations of any kind connected with the company's purpose; contract and grant loans; provide guarantees of any kind, also in favor of third parties; establish branches and subsidiaries.