The company's purpose is to acquire, sell and manage participations of all kinds in domestic and foreign companies, to perform related coordination, financing and management tasks, and, as an ancillary purpose, to provide services in the aforementioned areas and to perform handicraft work for subsidiaries and third parties. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies or merge with them, and enter into transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company. The company may acquire, sell, encumber real estate.