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• Alistair and Mary McCormick – Dune...

  

  “After his fourth redundancy Alistair McCormick thought ‘bugger it’, I’ll do something on my own.” Now he and his wife Mary run a successful Crest franchise and are Crests only carpet cleaners in Dunedin, they have also recently expanded into specialised floor polishing and business is booming. Like many Crest

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• Harry and Genevra Ficks – Invercar...

  

  Six years ago Harry and Genevra Ficks moved to New Zealand from South Africa. Little did they suspect that they would end up running their own business and turning over more than $100,000 pa in beautiful Invercargill. “Six years ago Harry and Genevra Ficks moved to New Zealand from South

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• Heidi Harrald – Dunedin Franchisee

  

  ” Working at night, I didn’t like “. Heidi negotiated with clients to allow daytime cleaning, working around 10-15 hours, four days a week – with her staff handling night shifts. Life for Heidi and Quintin Harrald changed dramatically in December 2009 – a life-threatening workplace accident at a Dunedin

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• Meet Hilda Whatuira-Davies and Willies D...

  

  “Crest has given us a lot of freedom for ourselves. Our goal is to be debt free by 2012, semi retired soon after and employing others.” says Hilda They have overcome sadness, hardship and mental mind-shifts – but Hilda Whatuira- Davies and husband Willie see brighter times ahead. Crest has

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• Hard work and determination pays off

  

  New Zealand owned and operated CrestClean has a lot to celebrate these days and Neil Kumar is one person demonstrating that hard work and determination pays off. As a result of the training provided by CrestClean, Mr Kumar has gained his the National Certificate in Cleaning and Caretaking, and he

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• New Automobile Association Head Office c...

  

  CrestClean has achieved a significant win in the marketplace as we have just been awarded the cleaning contract for the New Zealand Automobile Association head office building in Auckland. We are really pleased to further our relationship with AA, as we look after other branches elsewhere. We feel the head

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• CrestClean ranked 11th on the first ever...

  

  A booming green sector is shown by the New River Green 50, NZ’s first definitive list of companies making money improving the environment. The Green 50 list ranks New Zealand companies helping the environment. With being awarded 11th place on the listing, CrestClean has been acknowledged as being a successful

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• Anger builds over ‘poorly drafted&...

  

  As reported in the NZHerald – Thursday June 21, 2012 A major cleaning company is furious that it has been left waiting on an Employment Court decision for over a year because of a controversial piece of employment legislation. Dunedin based Crest Commercial Cleaning has called for a Ministerial Inquiry

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• Check out this fabulous Great Wall X240 ...

  

  Here’s Naveen Chand with his fabulous brand new Great Wall X240 vehicle. Naveen and his wife Rehana operate in West Auckland, they have been with Crest since February 2011. Naveen really likes the vehicle, it has a leather interior, a neat in-car entertainment system including a television, and its good

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• Presentee-ism; Introducing the working d...

  

  From the first cold day of the year, we start to see advertising from the pharmaceutical giants… “Soldier on” and “ Stop the flu– before it gets you”. Generally speaking, a few days away from the office letting the flu or a heavy cold run its course, is a last

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• Rotorua’s Wesley Larey makes us proud

  

  We just had a phone call from an extremely appreciative gentleman. He was ringing to say that we have some pretty “Damn” good workers. Around 11.20am on Sunday morning, his daughter was coming out of Lynmore Primary School after a church service. Our Rotorua Franchisee Wesley Larey had just arrived

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• Commercial cleaner sees growth potential...

  

  As reported in the nzherald.co.nz – May 7, 2012. There are many ridiculous measures of economic cycles, but the Playboy index is surely the silliest. American economists tracked booms and busts and matched the data with the bust-waist-hip ratio of Playboy models. They concluded that the vital statistics of a

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