The company's purpose is to manage national and international participations and to carry out financial transactions of all kinds. It can also engage in the production, processing, transportation and trade of energy and self-service wholesale outside of Switzerland, as well as grant trademarks, licenses and patents. The company can establish branches, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them, acquire or sell real estate, 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.