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• NZ Herald features Crest Franchisees

  

  West Auckland franchisees Irshad and Shema Ali featured in a New Zealand Herald article published on 20th April. Titled “Getting the right fit is key for franchises,” the story was in the Small Business section of the daily paper and quoted Irshad and Shema talking about their experiences running their

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• Coaching Made Easy with LeslieRugby and ...

  

  Even if you’ve played years of professional rugby for international unions and were Captain of Scotland, it doesn’t mean you know how to coach 7-year-olds. “When I turned up to manage and coach my son’s Under-7 team it was really disorganised,” recalls John Leslie, former Highlanders centre and one of

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• Wiri Oil Shows Appreciation

  

  When CrestClean’s Regional Manager for South and East Auckland, Viky Narayan was called into the Wiri Oil Services office for a special meeting, he was concerned. Turns out, it was to see one of his franchisees receive top praise. As part of Wiri Oil’s performance management system, contractors who work

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• Toilets – The Great Escape

  

  Just in case you need another reason to have clean toilets, here it is: turns out people are doing a lot more in there than the usual. A consumer study released by SCA, a hygiene products company, shows a surprising number of people use their workplace restrooms to eat, exercise,

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• ‘Crest Gives Us Wings’

  

  Davendran and Prithi Nair thought they might never be able to buy a house. Originally from Fiji, they decided to purchase a CrestClean franchise because Prithi’s brother in law was in the business and they liked the idea of running their own franchise and being their own boss. After 10

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• Technology the Topic at Crest’s Annual...

  

  For 2015, CrestClean explored the theme of “Embracing the Digital Future” for the annual Masters Conference. The yearly gathering brings all of Crest’s Regional Managers together with personnel from Admin Services and the marketing office and gives everyone a chance to catch up in person, learn what’s ahead for the

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• Get in Bed with This Great Cause

  

  The BNI Metro business networking group are hoping to be heroes for Totara Hospice. This crack team of bed racing veterans will be dressed up as Heroes and Villians to compete in the Great Auckland Bed Race on 22 March. In it’s third year, the Great Auckland Bed Race is

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• King Tut Damage: The Cleaners Did it…O...

  

  Sounds like the Egyptian National Museum needs competent cleaners they can trust. Mystery has always surrounded King Tut ever since the 1922 discovery of his elaborate tomb and remains, however the most recent controversy involves how the beard of his priceless gold death mask was broken off and shoddily repaired.

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• Successful Second Year BICSc Audit

  

  Master Cleaners Training Institute has once again successfully completed the British Institute of Cleaning Science annual audit. BICSc International General Manager Colin Hanks travelled to New Zealand for 10 days to conduct the audit. Master Cleaners Training Institute was found to be fully compliant with all of the audit criteria.

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• ‘Move to the Regions’ Success Moves ...

  

  Prasun Acharya has been on the move ever since he joined CrestClean in 2013, in part due to CrestClean’s special “Move to the Regions” offer, which took him from renting in Auckland to living in Napier. He’s now moving to New Plymouth and moving on from being a Crest franchisee

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• Tauranga Team Meets New Quality Assuranc...

  

  As CrestClean continues to grow, new people are joining the business at all the times, in all the regions. Jason Cheng recently moved from Auckland to Hamilton to take on the role of Quality Assurance Co-ordinator for Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Jason is one of several company officers throughout

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• Invercargill’s Rookies of the Year Mak...

  

  It was April 2014, Marlene and Jamie Madrid had completed all of their training and were ready for the first contract in their new CrestClean franchise. It wasn’t an easy one, according to Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft. “They quickly took on a school that was not in the best

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