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  • Course takes CrestClean’s carpet...

    He’s heard more than a few horror stories of cleaning catastrophes involving costly stuff ups with carpets when stain removal attempts have gone horribly wrong. With more than 30 years’ industry experience, there’s not much Charlie Lodge doesn’t know about carpet care. He’s a master technician and a certified Instructor

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  • School puts on special...

    Brian Bayly, Macleans Primary School principal, presents a card and gift voucher to CrestClean’s Kamal Jeet Singh.

      Kamal Jeet Singh was showered with compliments about his dedication to the job during a special morning tea put on in his honour by an Auckland school. The CrestClean business owner has been looking after Macleans Primary School for the past 16 years. Kamal is handing over the cleaning

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  • Maori posters promote hygiene...

    Prasun Acharya (centre), CrestClean’s Taranaki Regional Manager, presents Maori posters to Vogeltown School Deputy Principal Mike George. With them are Room 8 pupils Kirra Jones, Dylan Richards-Beehre, Jacob Ansell and Rylee Schofield.

      Vogeltown School pupils are among the first New Plymouth kids to get their hands on a series of novel posters that use humour to promote the use of Te Reo Maori. But the colourful free posters, designed and produced by commercial cleaning company CrestClean, also contain important health, hygiene,

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  • CrestClean’s new business owners...

    South Canterbury business owners at the Module 1 course run by the Master Cleaners Training Institute.

      It might have been a freezing South Canterbury morning but these CrestClean newbies quickly warmed to required tasks on an upskilling programme. Experienced franchisee Murray Kelly took the business owners through an extensive programme on the Module 1 course run by the Master Cleaners Training Institute. The course aims

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  • Cleaning kick-started career with...

    Just like the martial arts passion that keeps him fighting fit, his role as a CrestClean Quality Assurance Co-ordinator keeps Woo Sung Lee on his toes. The 41 year old, an accomplished Taekwondo master, has proved to be a high-flyer within the company and is loving his new job. Tauranga-based

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  • Auckland party sees biggest...

    It was the biggest ever gathering of CrestClean personnel when 380 business owners and their employees from the Auckland region came together for the annual Team Meeting. The event, at the city’s Alexandra Park, marked a stellar year for the Auckland business owners and saw a number of long service

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  • Celebrating 10 successful years...

    Robertus and Laima Vork receive their Certificate of Long Service from Aby Latu.

      They say time flies when you’re having fun and enjoying what you’re doing. Ask Robertus Vork where the past 10 years have gone and he’ll be stuck for an answer. It’s been a decade since Robertus and his wife Laima bought their CrestClean business – and they can hardly

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  • Kids fired-up after rugby...

    John Leslie (left) and Mike Williams, Mount Sports Junior Rugby chairman, with the under 12s team.

    Rugby legend John Leslie was in demand when he dropped into Tauranga as part of his nationwide tour to boost the number of junior rugby coaches. The ex-Highlanders player and former Scotland international held a free workshop for volunteer coaches at Mount Maunganui Sports Club. Mike Williams, Mount Sports Junior

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  • 21-year anniversaries to celebrate...

    Crest’s Managing Director Grant McLauchlan with Frucor’s Jackie Rzepka and Viky Narayan, CrestClean’s Regional Manager South Auckland.

      Twenty one years was a talking point when CrestClean’s boss dropped in on one of the company’s high-profile customers. CrestClean is marking 21 years of providing a professional cleaning services to its customers throughout the country. So when Managing Director Grant McLauchlan paid a courtesy visit to food manufacturer

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  • Meet our newest Taranaki...

    Afelee Niumea and Makalita Afelee with CrestClean’s Taranaki Regional Manager Prasun Acharya.

      Working for themselves had seemed an impossible dream for husband and wife Afelee Niumea and Makalita Afelee. They’d managed to buy a home of their own – but the New Plymouth couple, who have five children, were struggling financially to make much headway. However that all changed last year

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  • Nelson Regional Manager clocks...

    Barbara and Shane de Vries have just marked 10 years’ service with CrestClean.

      When Barbara de Vries bought a cleaning business in 2008 it was meant to be stopgap until she figured out her next move. Now a decade later she and her husband Shane have just clocked up a decade with CrestClean and recently received a long service award to mark

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  • NZ Citizenship another milestone...

    Janeth and Jonathan Luna with their children Jyra and Jaslyn.

    When Janeth Luna left the Philippines to join her husband for a new life in New Zealand her first job here couldn’t have been more hands on. She faced a steep learning curve that was more than a little out of her comfort zone. Milking cows on the Southland dairy

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