Operation of a food store; trade in foodstuffs of all kinds as well as sale of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages. 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.