Quebee Den Founder/CEO Rohanthi Wijewickrama has won Gold in the Small Scale Enterprises category at the ‘Woman Entrepreneur of the Year’ awards.
‘The Woman Entrepreneur of the Year’ is the biennial flagship event of Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce (WCIC), which recognises outstanding women entrepreneurs who change the world. It acts as an impetus for the women’s business community, to improve their business and set up best practices for other women to emulate.
Quebee Den is a local consumer goods company with an emphasis on safe, healthy and convenient products for one’s home. Its mission is to reinvent the future with healthy and safe products that will uplift the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the industry, community and the world.
The company has built a portfolio of niche brands like Bellybees, which specializes in food and beverages with no preservatives and Qbee, a dedicated household products brand for non-food items.
Catering to all age groups, Quebee Den develops products dedicated to baby, toddler, kids and the entire family has become one of Sri Lanka’s top self-made brands to cater to the entire family, being available island-wide in supermarkets and grocery stores.
This most recent honour caps off an impressive list of achievements for Wijewickrama, who has been recognised for her successes linked to the family consumer goods manufacturer she founded Quebee Den.
Over the past few years, Wijewickrama has been invited to represent Sri Lanka at the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit, held jointly by the USA and India, as well as being tapped as JCI’s Top Outstanding Young Persons of Sri Lanka Award in 2016, while also being adjudged the Western Province’s Best Entrepreneur - Industrial and Manufacturing Sector in 2017 and winning the Best Entrepreneur Award for 2016, both awarded by the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka.