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NZ’s top current affairs presenter John Campbell talks to Shikha Jain about Crest’s role in cleaning up the games village. Watch Video

Prof Charles Gerba shook hands for what must have been the 100th time that day and kept talking as he seamlessly turned to the hand-wash dispenser and the paper towels. “You know, 20% of germs you’ll transmit are passed through handshakes,” the man some in the United States fondly call

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

New Zealand’s largest commercial cleaning franchise, Crest Commercial Cleaning, has struck up a deal in India which will see it operating in around a dozen cities and employing thousands of people in the next two years. Since securing the country licence agreement in 2008, Crest Commercial Cleaning (India) Pvt. has

TV3 – featuring Crest’s Adam Hodge. It is global handwashing day, and this charming piece of information is part of a range of disturbing findings aimed at improving hygiene practices around the world. Watch this video

In July Crest attended the New Zealand Principals’ Federation Conference in Christchurch, as an exhibitor. Crest Commercial Cleaning Ltd is a bronze level partner and active supporter of the NZPF. As part of our conference display we offered a spot prize to Principals. A local Christchurch school, Westburn School, won

After nearly 18 months of detailed planning the Crest Quality Training Manual has been published and distributed to all Franchisees.  The collation of the Manual has been a tremendous team effort and I would like to thank all those involved in its production. During my visits to the regions I

Nitasha started out a very shy person.  Over the years she went between volunteering behind the scenes at a small school and running courses through another organisation.   This helped build her confidence to a much better level and she was finally able to get through an interview (the hardest part

It was a rewarding day for a group of Crest Auckland Franchisees when they were presented with their certificates for the NZQA Limited Credit Programme in Cleaning recently at Ellerslie. Already 142 of over 200 Crest Franchisees have completed course one and 75 have completed the Limited Credit Programme in

Because of concern in the cleaning industry about the low wages and poor conditions applied to employees of some unscrupulous cleaning companies, Crest wishes to make any potential customers aware that our personnel are paid and provided with a very “fair deal”, well above any industry averages. As a company,

IT WASN’T THE YEAR for Crest Commercial Cleaners but boy, did the cleaning franchise come close with growth of 134% just outside the threshold, of just a whisker under 140%.  That will be tough to take as it’s Crest’s highest growth rate since the Fast 50 began. In 2001, it

Awards Judge Warwick Grey says master franchisee Dennis Gilderdale of Crest Commercial Cleaning in Hamilton stood out as being the top master franchisee in New Zealand for a number of reasons. “Dennis Gilderdale has well developed systems and has developed firm relationships with franchisees and their customers. He represents a