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  • CrestClean Gains Contractor Prequalification Status

    CrestClean has gained Contractor Prequalification status with CPNZ Ltd. Contractor Prequalification is becoming a common part of the tender process right around the world for work that requires good health and safety performance. It allows organisations engaging contractors to determine if the contractors have recognised Health and Safety standards and

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  • First NZ ‘Cleaning Professional Skills Suite’ graduates receive...

    The first New Zealand intake of candidates for the British Institute of Cleaning Sciences Cleaning Professional Skills Suite (CPSS) course have now completed the course and received their certificates. The CPSS course is administered by Master Cleaners Training Institute, New Zealand’s only Accredited Training Provider with the British Institute of

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  • Enormous Watermelon Brings Joy to Cambridge Children

    Franchisees Krishn & Sangeeta Adhar recently took along an enormous Watermelon for the kids at Bunnies Childcare, Cambridge. That day, after a reading of one of the kids’ favorite stories ‘The Enormous Watermelon’, they were surprised with the real Watermelon and enjoyed holding it and each having a piece to

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  • From Vacuuming Classrooms to International Stardom – Meet...

    Kimpoy Feliciano is the son of Dunedin Franchisees Nene and Ato Feliciano, who has been involved with CrestClean through working for his parents. Enjoying his work, Kimpoy could often be heard singing while vacuuming the classrooms at Arthur Street School. At the suggestion of a friend Kimpoy created a Youtube

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  • First 2013 CrestClean Sponsored Coaching Clinics a Great...

    Over the last few weeks CrestClean has sent over 60 ‘rugby mad’ kids along to Leslie Rugby Coaching Clinics that were held in Dunedin and Queenstown, Auckland, Wellington and Nelson. As well as sponsoring the whole series CrestClean has provided scholarships to the coaching clinics for deserving junior rugby players

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  • Congratulations to our first BICS Training Graduates

    Congratulations to the first eleven CrestClean franchisees to successfully complete the BICS Cleaning Professional Skills Suite. The March 2013 Certificate Recipients were: Wellington Dhiraj Sharan Grijeshni Sharan Varun Arora Rakesh Kumar Roshini Kumar Shrijeshni Kumar Invercargill Rakesh Kumar Varender Singh Sivaraman Krishnan Vasentra Velayudhan Ofelia Barberan Each Franchisee that completes

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  • CrestClean Porsche GT3 in action

    Here are some shots of the CrestClean sponsored Porsche GT3 in action. Driven by owner Dave Allison, the event was part of the IRC Porsche racing series. Dave commented that “At the end of the weekend I still had third fastest time which I was happy with given this was

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  • CrestClean Sponsors Deserving Kids into the LeslieRugby Coaching...

    CrestClean strongly believes that inspiring kids through sporting opportunity is incredibly important. That is why we are working with LeslieRugby and we are offering a junior coaching clinic experience to deserving pupils from schools throughout various regions, for children aged 6 to 13 years. LeslieRugby coaching clinics focus on teaching core

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  • Team CrestClean Wins local charity ProAm

    The annual St Clair ProAm is one of the closely contest charity events for the Dunedin region with proceeds going to the local heart foundation. The Crest team consisted of Neil Lowe National Small Fleet Manager for Gough Material Handling, Greg Flanarey local business owner, the Dunedin Regional Director Tony

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  • Master Cleaners Training Institute gains BICSc Accreditation

    The Master Cleaners Training Institute has been granted the status of an Accredited Training Provider with the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc). In partnership with BICSc, Master Cleaners will provide accredited training programmes to CrestClean franchisees. Colin Hanks, General Manager of BICSc recently travelled to NZ to assess the

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  • Franchisees celebrate 13 years with Crest

    Dunedin franchisees Barry and Nancye Murray recently celebrated 13 years with Crest. They were presented with a travel voucher by Managing Director Grant McLauchlan, which they are using for a getaway in Auckland. Congratulations Barry and Nancye, that’s a great milestone and we wish you many more successful years with

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  • Franchisee Survey Prize Draw

    In December of last year, CrestClean conducted a comprehensive internal survey distributed to all franchisees throughout the country. We would like to thank all those who completed the survey, and we will be working over the next few months to take action on what we have learnt from it. Everyone

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