QNET Wins Five 2026 Stevie® Awards for Innovation, Sustainability, and Social Impact

QNET’s five Stevie® Awards highlight how innovation, purpose, and community engagement are becoming increasingly integrated into its approach to responsible direct selling.

QNET, a global lifestyle and wellness-focused direct selling company, has received five 2026 Middle East and North Africa Stevie® Awards, recognizing initiatives spanning social impact, sustainability, circular economy, community building and responsible innovation. The Stevie® Awards are among the world’s premier business awards, recognizing achievements in innovation, leadership and business excellence across industries and markets.

The awards add to QNET’s growing portfolio of international honours, with several initiatives recognized this year having earned industry accolades before. For QNET, the breadth of the awards illustrates how entrepreneurship, relationships and community can provide a platform for initiatives addressing wider social and environmental priorities.

QNET’s five 2026 awards comprise one Gold, one Silver and three Bronze Stevie® Awards across a diverse range of categories.

“Receiving five Stevie Awards across such diverse areas is a meaningful recognition of the work our teams and partners are doing to turn ideas into initiatives that create value beyond the business,”

said Mattias Mildenborn, Chief Executive Officer at QNET.

“For us, innovation is not limited to products or technology. It is also about finding new ways to engage communities, address real-world challenges and create more sustainable and meaningful impact.”

Recognizing Innovation Through Community and Purpose

QNET’s “Remember Your Why” campaign received a Gold Stevie® Award for Innovation in Social Media Community Building, recognizing its use of authentic storytelling and personal purpose to strengthen digital communities. For QNET, where relationships and community are central to the business model, the campaign demonstrates how purpose-led storytelling can foster deeper, more authentic engagement.

Turning Environmental Challenges into Community Opportunities

QNET’s partnership with VeryNile received a Silver Stevie® Award for Most Innovative Circular Economy Practices, recognizing the award-winning initiative for tackling plastic pollution in the Nile River while supporting fishermen who collect waste and women artisans who repurpose and upcycle waste into usable products. The partnership illustrates how environmental action can also create opportunities for community participation, skills and livelihoods.

Putting Young Creativity at the Centre of Social Impact

The Bernhard H. Mayer Open Innovation Challenge an initiative by QNET’s watch and jewelry brand, received two Bronze Stevie® Awards for Most Innovative Social Impact and Innovative Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility. Developed in partnership with design universities across the Middle East and North Africa in support of Breast Cancer Month, also known as Pink October, the initiative invited student designers to create innovative watch concepts inspired by breast cancer awareness. The winning design will be brought to life as a Bernhard H. Mayer timepiece, with a portion of sales proceeds supporting a local breast cancer association in the winner’s home country—turning young creativity into a tangible product with lasting social purpose.

Advancing Long-Term Environmental Stewardship

QNET’s Green Legacy Programme received a Bronze Stevie® Award for Innovative Achievement in Sustainability, recognizing its ongoing work in reforestation and ecosystem restoration. As a multi-award-winning initiative, Green Legacy reflects QNET’s broader approach to sustainability, combining long-term environmental stewardship with practical action to restore ecosystems.

“Having our initiatives recognized across social impact, sustainability, circular economy and community engagement reinforces our belief that responsible business is about the choices we make and the impact we create,”

added Mildenborn.

“We want innovation to have a purpose—whether that means empowering communities, supporting young talent, protecting the environment or creating stronger connections between people.”

Five Awards, One Broader Approach to Responsible Business

Taken together, the initiatives recognized this year demonstrate how QNET is applying innovation beyond products and commercial activity—to strengthen communities, support emerging talent, address environmental challenges and foster collaboration across its wider ecosystem.

For QNET, this reflects an evolving approach to direct selling in which entrepreneurship, community and innovation can intersect with broader social and environmental priorities. By bringing together employees, independent representatives, students, academic institutions, community organizations and other partners, the company creates opportunities that extend beyond traditional business activity and connect its ecosystem with wider societal goals.

The five Stevie® Awards reinforce QNET’s focus on responsible innovation, purposeful collaboration and community-led initiatives across its global markets.

About QNET

QNET is a global lifestyle and wellness company that uses a direct-selling business model to offer a diverse portfolio of products in wellness, personal care, home and living, watches and other lifestyle categories.

Through its e-commerce platform, QNET provides customers around the world with access to products designed to support healthier and more balanced lifestyles. The company also offers individuals the opportunity to become Independent Distributors and build a sales business by introducing QNET products to customers.

QNET is committed to responsible entrepreneurship, continuous product innovation, customer service and the ongoing education and development of its Independent Distributors.