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  • Top Appeal boosted by Crest personnel

    Viky Narayan (left), CrestClean’s South East Auckland Regional Manager, with Managing Director Grant McLauchlan and Eteta Petero (right) and Princeton Jackson from the Toy Appeal.

    More than 100 Auckland kids will receive a Christmas gift thanks to the generosity of CrestClean business owners. Viky Narayan, CrestClean’s South East Auckland Regional Manager Regional Manager, was overwhelmed with the response after he sent out a plea asking franchisees to donate to the Salvation Army’s annual Toy Appeal.

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  • Bright future as cleaning company marks 21 years

    Home-grown commercial cleaning company CrestClean is celebrating 21 successful years with predications of an even brighter future. The company, which began two decades ago with a single franchise business, now has 606 individual franchised businesses and carries out 2.071 million cleaning hours each year. It is the largest trainer of

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  • Pure Water Window Cleaning comes to the North

    Mohini Coppersmith and Tarun Kumar have already expanded their CrestClean business in Whangarei.

    A CrestClean couple are spearheading the company’s Pure Water Window Cleaning that’s now available in Northland. Tarun Kumar and Mohini Coppersmith, who own a CrestClean business in Whangarei, have attended an upskilling course so they can offer the highly-specialist window service to customers. Pure Water Window Cleaning provides cost effective,

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  • Boy’s card inspires Crest’s business owners

    When an 8-year-old wrote a heartfelt “thank you” card for his classroom cleaners he had no idea of the effect the sentiments it contained would have. The boy’s hand-written card, left for CrestClean’s Kumaran Nair and his wife Reshmi, spelled out his gratitude for the couple’s work at Christchurch’s Westburn

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  • Business provides holidays for his family

    Amit Kumar receives his Certificate of Long service from Viky Narayan, CrestClean’s South and East Auckland Regional Manager.

    Taking his family to see their tennis hero win a major tournament has been one of the many highlights of the past 10 years for Amit Kumar. Such occasions have only been possible thanks to having a profitable CrestClean business, he says. “We are tennis fans and we’ve been to

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  • Business allows couple to live the dream

    Charlie and Vicki Stratford have plenty of time to spend at their lifestyle block.

    Charlie and Vicki Stratford are living the dream after compressing their full time job into just two and half days a week. The Nelson CrestClean business owners have given over their Friday evenings and Saturdays and Sundays to work. But the trade-off is they can relax the rest of the

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  • Teacher’s surprise at winning Crest prize

    Chris Els receives the vacuum cleaner from Yasa Panagoda. Looking on (centre) is Redwood Primary School Principal John Stackhouse.

    Winning a state-of-the-art vacuum cleaner left Christchurch teacher Chris Els totally “gob smacked”. Chris, the Deputy Principal at Redwood Primary School, was stunned after learning he’d scooped the prize in a draw held at a recent gathering of the country’s top teachers. The annual New Zealand Principals Federation Conference is

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  • Pride shines bright after 10 years in business

    Toroman and Mitala Mwemwenteata are celebrating 10 years with CrestClean.

    You could say cleaning is truly in his blood. Just 6 years old and living in a remote island republic in the Central Pacific, Toroman Mwemwenteata was expected to do his share of household chores. “When I was a young boy back in Keribas I used to do the cleaning

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  • Crest van leads the charge to all-electric vehicles

    Charging is a doddle as this CrestClean e-NV200 stops for a power top up at Tauranga’s Bayfair Shopping Centre.

    It’s no wonder this gleaming CrestClean all-electric van is turning heads in Tauranga. With its bright graphics, depicting “Lovin’ our ZERO EMISSION vehicle”, the Nissan e-NV200 was unmissable to visitors arriving at the city’s Bayfair Shopping Centre. Its owner, Tauranga franchisee Jon Moon, is not only switched on to the

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  • Pizza treat for Cleanest Classroom winners

    Cleaning just got a whole lot easier at Howick Intermediate School – and it’s all due to CrestClean’s Cleanest Classroom Award. Ajneel and Bhartika Singh, who look after the Auckland school, say it’s thanks to the programme that classrooms are no longer being left messy. It means they don’t have

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  • Former chef says cleaning keeps him fit

    Cleaning used to be a tall order for CrestClean’s Asad Siddiqui as his role at a Wellington school means working between five floors. But the 37-year-old former chef has more than stepped up to the challenge – and says he’s never felt fitter. In just three months since buying a

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  • Crest couple win NZ Franchise Award

    CrestClean business owners Dan Pariachi and Madhu Mala have scooped a major award at an annual event that recognises excellence in New Zealand’s franchise sector. The Dunedin couple are national winners in the Business Services category of the Westpac New Zealand Franchise Awards. It’s a remarkable achievement for the husband

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