Dunedin News

  • Alistair and Mary McCormick...

    “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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  • Heidi Harrald - Dunedin...

    ” 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...

    “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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  • CrestClean ranked 11th on...

    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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  • Cleaning up the Competition

    As recently published in Idealog Magazine:     It’s hardly the favourite thing to do around the house, but outside of it, cleaning is big business. Just ask Grant McLauchlan of Dunedin business CrestClean. McLauchlan and his business partner, Rene Mangnus, bought a small Dunedin cleaning company in 1996 with

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  • Otago Daily Times –...

    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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