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• US microbiologist says toilet seats clea...

  

  Prof Charles Gerba shook hands for what must have been the 100th time that day and kept talking as he seamlessly turned to the hand-wash dispenser and the paper towels. “You know, 20% of germs you’ll transmit are passed through handshakes,” the man some in the United States fondly call

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• Otago Daily Times – Businesses urged t...

  

  Dunedin-based company Crest Commercial Cleaning’s successful Mumbai franchise showed how well strong business models could work even in a competitive, low-wage economy. Read more on Otago Daily Times website

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• NZ company cleans up in India

  

  New Zealand’s largest commercial cleaning franchise, Crest Commercial Cleaning, has struck up a deal in India which will see it operating in around a dozen cities and employing thousands of people in the next two years. Since securing the country licence agreement in 2008, Crest Commercial Cleaning (India) Pvt. has

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• Germs are everywhere – so clean yourse...

  

  TV3 – featuring Crest’s Adam Hodge. It is global handwashing day, and this charming piece of information is part of a range of disturbing findings aimed at improving hygiene practices around the world. Watch this video

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• NZPF Conference Prize Winner

  

  In July Crest attended the New Zealand Principals’ Federation Conference in Christchurch, as an exhibitor. Crest Commercial Cleaning Ltd is a bronze level partner and active supporter of the NZPF. As part of our conference display we offered a spot prize to Principals. A local Christchurch school, Westburn School, won

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• NZQA National Certificate in Cleaning an...

  

  Kyle Wood is the first Crest person in Tauranga to gain his National Certificate. Kyle works with his father David Wood, and his father’s partner Sandra Maxwell. He has his own van and customers within the franchise. Customers note Kyle’s broad base of skills in his workmanship. He has an

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• Crest Updates Quality Training Manual

  After nearly 18 months of detailed planning the Crest Quality Training Manual has been published and distributed to all Franchisees.  The collation of the Manual has been a tremendous team effort and I would like to thank all those involved in its production. During my visits to the regions I

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• NZQA National Certificate in Cleaning an...

  

  Nitasha started out a very shy person.  Over the years she went between volunteering behind the scenes at a small school and running courses through another organisation.   This helped build her confidence to a much better level and she was finally able to get through an interview (the hardest part

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• Helpful Franchise Information

  

  What is a Franchise? A simple explanation of a franchise is that it is a licence granted by the owner of a business (the franchisor) to allow other parties (franchisees) to operate a business selling products or services under the franchisor’s brand name and using the franchisor’s business and marketing

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• Franchisees get NZQA certificates presen...

  

  It was a rewarding day for a group of Crest Auckland Franchisees when they were presented with their certificates for the NZQA Limited Credit Programme in Cleaning recently at Ellerslie. Already 142 of over 200 Crest Franchisees have completed course one and 75 have completed the Limited Credit Programme in

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• Franchise Association Code of Ethics

  

  The Franchise Association of New Zealand Inc Code of Practice sets out specific procedures and recommendations for many aspects of franchising which must be followed by members of the Association. The Rules of the Association and the Franchising Code of Practice are to be interpreted in the spirit of the Code of Ethics.

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• Fair Deal for Crest Franchisees

  Because of concern in the cleaning industry about the low wages and poor conditions applied to employees of some unscrupulous cleaning companies, Crest wishes to make any potential customers aware that our personnel are paid and provided with a very “fair deal”, well above any industry averages. As a company,

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