The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and sell participations in companies of all kinds, as well as to perform related coordination, financing and management tasks, and to acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, establish or merge with similar or related companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, manage, encumber and sell real estate, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds, 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.