Franchise Business Information News

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  • Great looking example of our new vehicle branding

    Nelson franchisees Paul and Shelly Nicholson recently changed vehicles into this great looking Nissan Cube. This shows just how good our new vehicle branding can look when done really well.

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  • CrestClean signs the Partners in Action Pledge

    As an organisation with a stake in achieving the Workplace Health and Safety Strategy’s vision of ‘healthy people in safe and productive workplaces’, CrestClean recently accepted the challenge to become a Partner in Action with the Department of Labour to reduce New Zealand’s work toll. In the two months since

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  • Winner of Top 10 Supplier Award

    Each year one of CrestClean’s South Auckland customers, Speedy Signs Manukau presents special awards to their Top 10 Suppliers. This year for the second year in a row, one of CrestClean’s franchisees Ravindra Chandra won this title as their Top 10 Supplier. Ravindra has been cleaning their premises for just

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  • Kiwi Company to the Rescue in Games Village

    An eleventh hour rescue by a Kiwi cleaning company could save a possible threat of New Zealand’s team’s withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. “Following an approach by the New Zealand High Commissioner in Delhi, Rupert Holborow, Crest Cleaning’s India business mucked in to sort out the New

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  • Crest India called in for the Games Village...

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

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  • US microbiologist says toilet seats cleaner than office...

    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

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  • Otago Daily Times – Businesses urged to focus...

    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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  • NZ company cleans up in India

    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

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  • Germs are everywhere – so clean yourself up

    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

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  • NZPF Conference Prize Winner

    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

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  • Crest Updates Quality Training Manual

    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

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  • NZQA National Certificate in Cleaning and Caretaking achiever...

    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

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