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  • Move to the Regions Programme successful

    CrestClean National Relocation Manager Chris Barker is pleased with how the Move to the Regions programme is going, having successfully settled 25 families in Hawkes Bay, Whangarei, Wairarapa, Kapiti Coast, North Harbour, Hamilton, Taupo, Nelson, Blenheim, Queenstown, Wanaka, Alexandra and Cromwell in the last four years.

    CrestClean’s Move to the Regions Programme is providing families with opportunities to settle outside of Auckland and Wellington. CrestClean, which is one of many companies helping to settle families outside Auckland, has successfully settled 25 families in Hawkes Bay, Whangarei, Wairarapa, Kapiti Coast, North Harbour, Hamilton, Taupo, Nelson, Blenheim, Queenstown,

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  • CrestClean and LeslieRugby strengthening junior rugby

    CrestClean LeslieRugby Junior Rugby Team Coaching Programme.

    The CrestClean LeslieRugby Junior Rugby Team Coaching Programme is helping strengthen junior rugby in New Zealand. The programme is aimed at junior rugby coaches and/or dads and mums who are interested in coaching the game in the future. It promotes fundamental skill development and makes it easier for junior team

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  • Best van in the fleet

    Best van in fleet.

    Auckland Central Region franchisee Resham Singh captured the attention of his colleagues with unanimous accolades that his van is the best in the fleet. Earlier this year, Resham purchased a 2014 Nissan NV350 Caravan. It’s a great car and automatic, which means it drives well in the busy Auckland traffic.

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  • ‘Move to the Regions’ provides life-changing opportunities

    For Prasun and Diksha Acharya, owning their own business was out of reach until they discovered CrestClean’s Move to the Regions Programme. The programme, which started in 2011, provides people, who would like to own their own business, with an opportunity to move outside of Auckland and Wellington. Prasun and

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  • Top marks for Druv and Sashi

    Top marks for Druv and Sashi.

    South Auckland CrestClean franchisee team Druv Deepak Ram and Sashi Kala have received praise for the great work they do. Druv and Sashi, who have been CrestClean franchisees since May 2012, clean a number of premises including Weymouth Primary School. Principal Saane Faaofo Oldehaver appreciates the effort the franchisee team

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  • Annual Upskilling Keeps Invercargill Team Trained and Ready

    Invercargill CrestClean team.

    CrestClean has a strong commitment to training as a way of raising the standards of the commercial cleaning industry in New Zealand. All franchisees undergo three weeks of induction training when they purchase a franchise and free annual upskilling is also part of the Crest business. Annual upskilling that CrestClean

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  • Enriching Franchisees Experience

    CrestClean Enriching Franchisees Experience.

    Continuing to cement CrestClean as New Zealand’s premier cleaning and franchise company is one of many future goals shared by Sam Lewis and Jacqui Hannagan. Based in Dunedin, Sam has been appointed General Manager of Franchise Services and Jacqui has been appointed General Manager of Admin Services. These recent appointments

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  • Going Far with Crest

    CrestClean franchisee team presented with their five year Long Service Award.

    “You can go as far as you want with Crest. We just put our heads down and went for it,” says Danish Sharma, who has owned a CrestClean franchise for five years. In that time, he and his wife, Aijita, have been able to grow their cleaning business to include

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  • Crest Franchisee Steps into New Role as Auckland...

    CrestClean runs in the Narayan family.

    Rajesh Narayan was introduced to CrestClean by his younger brother, Viky Narayan, Crest’s Regional Manager for South and East Auckland. “When I came to New Zealand I was working for Sky TV and it was okay but I didn’t like the hours,” Raj recalls. “I was thinking of investing in

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  • It’s Cost Effective to Have a Clean, Healthy...

    CrestClean's 2015 Masters Conference.

    Principal Gavin Beere was just a couple of years into his tenure at South Auckland’s Hillpark School when he decided to take a critical look at the primary school’s cleaning services. “There’s one main reason why people look at cleaning operations,” he said recently during a presentation at CrestClean’s Masters

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  • Before and After School Urinals

    Before and after photograph of a urinal.

    During student holidays, many CrestClean franchisees do special Term Cleans of the schools in their regions. This takes a more thorough “spring cleaning” approach that involves going the extra mile, with a full carpet cleaning and polishing of all hard floors in most cases. It can also be an opportunity

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  • Glowing Reports for Hutt Valley’s Rookie of the...

    Harpreet and Amandeep Bhangu are an ambitious young family.

    “Glowing reports” from customers about CrestClean franchisee team Harpreet and Amandeep Bhangu have made them the Hutt Valley’s Rookie Of The Year for 2014. The young family is originally from India but now calling the Hutt Valley their home. They purchased a CrestClean franchise in August and are busy cleaning

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