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  • CrestClean business success enables couple to buy a...

    Cleaners holding a bunch of flowers outside their home.

    Saving the deposit for a brand-new home in little more than a year is a big achievement in itself — but doing it during a pandemic, amidst rising house prices, is nothing short of amazing! CrestClean franchisees Mohammed Ashad and Shamina Ali are proud to have bought their first home,

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  • Jeffrey is bowled over to be selected for...

    Cleaner wearing sports medals around his neck.

    CrestClean’s Jeffrey Ganley is excited to have been selected for the Freemasons New Zealand Special Olympics National Summer Games. Jeffrey will be representing Special Olympics Whangarei in indoor bowls, after his team was placed at regional competitions last year. One of the country’s largest multi-sport events, the games will be

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  • Loss and Grief Centre given fresh start with...

    Cleaner using a carpet cleaning machine.

    When Invercargill’s Loss and Grief Centre needed to relocate to a building that had been vacant for more than a decade, it was a case of all hands to the pump for commercial cleaning company CrestClean. Seven franchise teams and a carpet care specialist were mobilised to give the building

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  • Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft receives Queen’s Service...

    CrestClean’s Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft is proud to have been awarded a Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) for services to traffic safety, in the New Year Honours 2022. “It was very much a surprise and I am very humbled,” says Glenn, who was given the heads-up a couple of months

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  • Personalised Christmas gifts treasured by North Harbour franchisees

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    Sometimes you get given a gift that’s just too precious to use. That’s how CrestClean franchisees Fazia Ali and Rizwan Khan feel about these beautiful wooden coasters gifted to them by Upper Harbour Primary School. The thoughtful Christmas gifts were presented to them by the school principal at the end

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  • Christmas cheer for Hawke's Bay franchisee

    Cleaner holding Christmas card.

    Every year Hawke’s Bay franchisee Mercy Rabanal receives a handmade Christmas card from Kowhai Special School — but this year there was an extra something tucked into the card. The school, which Mercy has cleaned since becoming a CrestClean franchisee almost five years ago, generously gifted her a $100 Prezzy

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  • Regional team meetings round off a successful year...

    CrestClean’s regional team meetings are always cause for celebration, as individual, regional and national achievements are recognised. Despite the challenges of 2021, most of the regional team meetings were able to go ahead, even if it did involve some re-scheduling and mask-wearing! Overall, hundreds of franchisees from around New Zealand

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  • CrestClean achieves 25 years!

    December 16th, 2021, marked an important milestone in the history of CrestClean — our Silver Jubilee! It has been 25 years since CrestClean was launched, in which time we have grown to become the largest NZ owned cleaning company, involving more than 2,000 people, serving over 5,200 customers. From humble

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  • CrestClean franchisees meet rugby sevens coaching legend

    While going about their regular cleaning duties, rugby fans Anurangi and Sanjeet Chandra were surprised to meet sevens coaching legend Sir Gordon Tietjens — and even more surprised to discover that they had been cleaning his office! The Tauranga CrestClean franchisees had noticed rugby photos on the wall but had

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  • Dries celebrates 20 successful years

    Congratulations to Master Franchisee Dries Mangnus, who has clocked up an impressive 20 years with CrestClean! It’s a great milestone to achieve, from a humble start picking up a few scattered foundation franchises around Auckland, to the creation of CrestClean’s largest Master Franchise. Dries leads our largest team of franchisees,

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  • Career switch secures Cromwell couple’s financial future

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    He used to work in a suit and tie, transporting the rich and famous around Queenstown, but when Covid hit and Vikram Singh’s income plummeted, it was a cleaning business that secured his future. “There’s so much unpredictability in the world right now regarding employment and money, but the cleaning

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  • Auckland franchisees excited to be saving towards their...

    Husband and wife cleaning team standing together.

    Siueva and Faalele Sapati thought home ownership was out of their reach, but six months after buying a CrestClean business the Auckland couple are excited to have started saving towards their dream. “Financially, we have seen an improvement and now we have the opportunity to save towards our first home.

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