By: Sheila WILLIAMS
At the heart of QNET lies a strong purpose of RHYTHM – Raise Yourself To Help Mankind. That is the core purpose of their corporate social responsibility (CSR). The ability to raise individuals to help others.
QNET is a global e-commerce, direct selling company with a wide range of products in the categories of Home Care, Personal Care, Nutrition, Watches, E-Learning and Holiday packages sold through registered Independent Representatives. All projects from QNET are anchored to three pillars, namely: Children with Special Needs, Community Development and Community Wellbeing.
QNET works closely with RYTHM Foundation on a number of projects in developing countries to make a difference in the communities in which they operate. QNET believes in not just writing a cheque but getting involved and working towards sustainable change.
Speaking at a media briefing in Accra last Friday, Mr. David Sharma, Advisor to QNET, said “Direct selling is simply the marketing of products and services directly to consumers through word-of-mouth manner, away from a retail location. Direct selling encompass a variety of distribution methods, multilevel marketing and network marketing are two types of distribution methods, multi-level marketing and network marketing are two types of distribution methods for QNET.
QNET is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and has grown from small, single products company to offering a wide range of high quality and service in 11 different product categories.
The company provides regular training programs, promote a strong ethical code of conduct, support distributors with marketing materials and business tools and source or develop right products for the diverse global customer base.
QNET has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) for the sponsorship of the CAF Champions LEAGUE and the CAF Confederation Cup for both 2018 to 2019.
QNET is also very socially responsible and actively support orphanages, differently-abled, children, disaster relief projects, environmental protection and food/water programs around the world and has participated in programs with the United Nations, UNICEF and Commonwealth Business Council.
On the sidelines with Mr. David Sharma, the Companies Advisor told Business Day the Local content base for “QNET is to employ Ghanaians to the respective agency offices, work closely with direct suppliers in Africa and globally at large.
“The growth of QNET is basically by word of mouth, through referrals, and recommendation from customers who have patronage products and services from QNET. The high pick of sales for QNET would be during the Ramadan and Christmas session”, he added.
QNET is a prominent Asian direct selling company that provides a range of products that are offered through the e-commerce platform by Independent Representatives (IRs) in over 100 countries, with offices and agencies in 25 countries worldwide, and more than 50 stockists, apart from localized operations or franchisees in a number of countries.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, QNET’s exclusive products are delivered to customers from six international hubs in Malaysia, Turkey, India, the UAE, Russia and the Netherlands.
The company does not solicit investment, take deposits, promise fixed returns, sell shares, sell or offer jobs, condone any unlawful holding or “detaining” or persons or conducts hard selling or forceful tactics.
