Dunedin News

  • Meet Dunedin Franchisees Nene...

    Nene and Ato Feliciano moved to Dunedin from the Philippines with their family some five years ago to start a new chapter in their lives. Ato started working at MacRaes Mining, which was a 200km round trip and required him to be away from his family for at least 15 hours

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  • Team CrestClean Wins local...

    The annual St Clair ProAm is one of the closely contest charity events for the Dunedin region with proceeds going to the local heart foundation. The Crest team consisted of Neil Lowe National Small Fleet Manager for Gough Material Handling, Greg Flanarey local business owner, the Dunedin Regional Director Tony

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  • Franchisees celebrate 13 years...

    Dunedin franchisees Barry and Nancye Murray recently celebrated 13 years with Crest. They were presented with a travel voucher by Managing Director Grant McLauchlan, which they are using for a getaway in Auckland. Congratulations Barry and Nancye, that’s a great milestone and we wish you many more successful years with

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  • CrestClean Proudly Sponsors St...

    CrestClean Dunedin is proud to announce its new sponsorship deal with St Clair Golf Club. The spectacular St Clair Golf Club is nestled on the cliffs above Dunedin’s beautiful St Clair Beach and the course offers world class views of the Pacific Ocean. CrestClean Dunedin has their name on all the pin flags

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  • A Glowing Testimonial from...

    On the 16th of December we received this glowing email from Adrienne Alexander, a teacher at Taieri College, Dunedin: Dear Sir/Madam I am writing to express my gratitude and admiration for the CREST cleaners who were responsible for the end of year cleaning done in the Te Kainga block of

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  • 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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