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  • Industry experts share top tips with newbies

    Jason Cheng (left) and Pinakin Patel with CrestClean personnel attending the training event run by the Master Cleaners Training Institute.

      CrestClean newbies attending a key training course had two of the best operators in the business to learn from. The Master Cleaners Training Institute Module 1 programme was delivered by Jason Cheng assisted by Pinakin Patel. Jason has his own CrestClean cleaning business but he’s also one of the

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  • Home dream for new business owners

    Dhaval Amin and Aakanksha Patel have just joined CrestClean and been praised for their commitment.

      For Dhaval Amin it was a case of “try before you buy” when he began looking for a business that would generate enough extra income for a deposit on a home. Like so many other young Auckland couples, Dhaval and his wife Aakanksha Patel’s hopes of being homeowners seemed

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  • Carpet care helps boost his business

    CrestClean’s Sudhir Saksena is not a person to rest on his laurels – he’s grown his business tenfold in just four years. Sudhir joined CrestClean in 2014 and focused his efforts on his cleaning business in the evenings while holding down a fulltime day job as a delivery driver. But

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  • Trish finds her niche volunteering after CrestClean’s rallying...

    Trish Richards presents a vacuum sealer to Wayne Moss, a team leader at Loaves and Fishes.

      A rallying call encouraging CrestClean’s Nelson personnel to help out in their local community struck a chord with Trish Richards. Trish, who has undertaken volunteer work for charitable organisations before, dropped in on Loaves and Fishes, a community meals project in central Nelson. “I enjoy helping out where there’s

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  • Business owners drive CrestClean’s success

    CrestClean’s Managing Director heaped praise on the company’s local business owners at the annual team meeting in Rotorua. Grant McLauchlan said the company’s turnover has grown by 12.4 percent nationally in the past financial year and the Rotoura region had played an important part in that increase. “We’ve become a

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  • Kia ora! Posters help schools celebrate Maori Language...

    Hundreds of schools around New Zealand are getting an early heads up from CrestClean that Maori Language week kicks off on Monday. Primary schools in each of the regions that CrestClean operates in have been sent packs of our popular schools posters in te reo Maori. The colourful posters, which

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  • Couple now own a six figure business after...

    Biren Kumar and his wife Swaran came from Fiji with nothing. Ten years on they are now running a successful CrestClean business.

      A couple who refused to let cruel thieves ruin their dream to move to New Zealand are celebrating 10 successful years with CrestClean and now own a six-figure business. Biren and Swaran Kumar had been left penniless when their home was burgled just days before they were due to

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  • Junior players put in a polished performance to...

      A CrestClean sponsored rugby team shone on the day as they rose to the challenge by winning a major tournament. The Metro Blue rugby team is coached by CrestClean’s Dunedin Regional Manager Tony Kramers, with his wife Nicky overseeing the management tasks. The young players won by 15-12 in

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  • Final assessment sees CrestClean personnel pass ‘with flying...

    Ashneer Datt shows CrestClean personnel tips on the safe use of a vacuum cleaner. Looking on is Adam Hodge, CEO of the Master Cleaners Training Institute.

      Health and safety came under close scrutiny for CrestClean personnel being assessed as part of their final training to become competent cleaners. The Invercargill team members were attending a Module 2 course delivered by Ashneer Datt on behalf of the acclaimed Master Cleaners Training Institute. Also on hand was

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  • TV show features New Zealand’s ‘happiest cleaner’

      He’s been dubbed New Zealand’s happiest cleaner and there’s no mistaking that Cicero Calzada loves his work – the evidence being loud and clear. The CrestClean business owner, who just can’t resist breaking into song at every opportunity, appeared on TV Three’s The Project in the show’s weekly roundup

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  • Business owners support athlete’s bid to represent New...

    Joeline Jones with CrestClean’s Colin and Linda Bartlett.

      Caring CrestClean couple Linda and Colin Bartlett have helped to pave the way for a preschool teacher to represent New Zealand in Spain at an international athletics event. Thanks to the generous support of Motueka locals, Joeline Jones is now on track to attend the World Masters Track and

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  • Principal’s run of good fortune extends after she...

    Tauranga Girls' College Principal Tara Kanji receives a gift pack and cutting board from Jan Lichtwark, CrestClean’s Tauranga Regional Manager.

      A Tauranga principal’s phenomenal run of good luck was extended after she visited the CrestClean stand at an education conference. Tara Kanji couldn’t believe it after learning she had scooped a luxury gift set of kitchen goodies after entering a prize draw. Hundreds of delegates to the New Zealand

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