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  • Cleaning Up for a Royal Visit

    A letter from Veronica Keswell, Office Administrator, East Tamaki School: East Tamaki School hosted a very special guest on Monday 12 November 2012, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Part of our preparations for this visit was to ensure that the areas of the school that she would see would be clean

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  • CrestClean Wins Another Fast 50 Award

    Last week CrestClean was recognised as the ‘Fastest Growing Mature Business – Otago and Lower South Island’ in the Deloitte 2012 Fast 50 Awards. This is the 5th time CrestClean has been recognised as a Deloitte Fast 50 company, and we are incredibly proud of everyone within the company who

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  • 2012 New Zealand Principals' Federation Conference iPad Prize...

    CrestClean is proud to announce the winner of our iPad Prize Draw from the 2012 New Zealand Principals’ Federation Conference held in Melbourne. We’d firstly like to thank Robyn Arthur, Principal of Newlands Primary School in Wellington, for conducting the official draw back in New Zealand after the conference. Congratulations to

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  • CrestClean South Auckland selected as a finalist in...

    Congratulations to Viky Narayan and the team at CrestClean South Auckland who has been selected as a finalist in the Westpac Auckland South Business Awards. The pictures show Viky Narayan, CrestClean South Auckland’s Regional Director, accepting the finalist award at the Westpac Finalist Function at Villa Maria Estate, Mangere, on

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  • Public Health Warning: The threat of handshaking politicians...

    Monday 15 October marks “Global Handwashing Day”. Crest Clean would like to remind the public that with politicians continually making their way around the country, it is essential to wash your hands after meeting them to prevent the spread of political handwringing. “In New Zealand we can joke about simple

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  • 10 Years of Service Celebrated at Greenhithe School

    To mark the 10th year cleaning Greenhithe School, CrestClean has donated $600 to the School Library. The School receives excellent service from franchise owners Maike Kiteao and Valaau Kiteao. On the Friday of Book Week, CrestClean personnel including Auckland Regional Directors Caroline Wedding and Dries Mangnus, and franchisees Maike and

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  • CrestClean ranked 11th on the first ever ‘Green...

    A booming green sector is shown by the New River Green 50, NZ’s first definitive list of companies making money improving the environment. The Green 50 list ranks New Zealand companies helping the environment. With being awarded 11th place on the listing, CrestClean has been acknowledged as being a successful

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  • Anger builds over 'poorly drafted' employment law

    As reported in the NZHerald – Thursday June 21, 2012 A major cleaning company is furious that it has been left waiting on an Employment Court decision for over a year because of a controversial piece of employment legislation. Dunedin based Crest Commercial Cleaning has called for a Ministerial Inquiry

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  • Rotorua’s Wesley Larey makes us proud

    We just had a phone call from an extremely appreciative gentleman. He was ringing to say that we have some pretty “Damn” good workers. Around 11.20am on Sunday morning, his daughter was coming out of Lynmore Primary School after a church service. Our Rotorua Franchisee Wesley Larey had just arrived

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  • Commercial cleaner sees growth potential in Indian and...

    As reported in the nzherald.co.nz – May 7, 2012. There are many ridiculous measures of economic cycles, but the Playboy index is surely the silliest. American economists tracked booms and busts and matched the data with the bust-waist-hip ratio of Playboy models. They concluded that the vital statistics of a

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  • Crest's Managing Director to speak at Singapore Franchising...

    CrestClean’s outstanding business model has been recognised in Singapore with an invitation for our Managing Director Grant McLauchlan to speak at ‘Frontiers of Franchising‘ on the 25th April.

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  • Crest gets 'thumbs up' from the Franchise Association

    Late last year Crest supplied key documents about how our franchise system works to the Franchise Association of New Zealand, to be assessed to see if our system and all agreements were fair and reasonable. In a letter received back in December it was confirmed that our documentation is in

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