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  • Tauranga team celebrate Christmas

    CrestClean’s Tauranga team enjoyed the end of year Christmas party. “It went well,” Regional Manager Jan Lichtwark says. As part of end of year celebrations, franchisees and their families played bowls, caught up with the rest of the team and enjoyed a barbecue. “Everyone really enjoyed themselves. It was a

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  • Sports Equipment for Cleanest Classroom Winners

    Room 3 children at Waimataitai School are enjoying the sports equipment they received from Crest in recognition of their efforts. Room 3 children were the lucky winners of Crest’s Cleanest Classroom Award. CrestClean’s Cleanest Classroom competitions are held at many of the 262 schools that are cleaned by Crest franchisees.

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  • CrestClean Amphibious Microlight captures stingray jumping out of...

    A stingray jumping out of the water was captured on video onboard the CrestClean Amphibious Microlight on Sunday. How to avoid prosecution if a delivery person is injured on your work premises. Pilot Derek Holmes spent the day flying around Waihi Beach. As he was taking off from Tanners Point

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  • 12 years success in Hamilton - a ‘good...

    Gayaneshwar Raju was one of the first franchisees to relocate to Hamilton from Auckland. “I was in Auckland but I didn’t like it,” he says. “There was too much traffic and it was really busy. We moved to Hamilton and even though it is getting busy, we still really like

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  • Crest personnel take pride in their vehicles

    Christchurch and South Canterbury’s fleet of vehicles received a tick of approval after they were audited. Christchurch South Regional Manager Kiri James, Christchurch North Regional Manager Yasa Panagoda and South Canterbury Regional Manager Robert Glenie audited 25 vehicles. Franchisees vehicles are audited regularly to ensure they meet compliance guidelines as

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  • 2015 Southern Business of the Year

    CrestClean has been named Southern Business of the Year for 2015 by the Otago Daily Times. Crest received a full page profile on the front page of the Business and Money section of the newspaper on Saturday, December 26. The profile highlighted Crest’s business philosophy, the franchise model and how

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  • ‘Customers make it worthwhile’

    Sandeep Singh has been with Crest for nearly three years and she has the only female run franchise in the Waikato. “People said Crest is a good business to be part of and they were right – it is,” she says. “I was looking for a job that I could

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  • Waikato’s Franchisees of the Year

    Danny and Ngere Vi love being part of the Tokoroa community. The husband and wife team, who have been with Crest for one year, were named Waikato Franchisees of the Year – a reflection of their hard work, dedication and commitment. They also have the best van in the Waikato.

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  • Bright near new Crest office in Ashburton

    South Canterbury Regional Manager Robert Glenie is proud of Crest’s new Ashburton office. Located in the middle of town on Burnett Street, Crest shares the shop frontage with Ashburton Computer Associates. “The new office is great. There is a large board room with internet TV for use when interviewing Franchisees,

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  • Team Sharma ‘extremely dedicated’

    Taking care of customer’s premises really is a team effort for Yashmin, Shewta and Jiten Sharma. The husband, wife and daughter team are based in Gulf Harbour and purchased a Crest franchise in August. Prior to Crest Jiten was working in construction and Yashmin was working in the healthcare sector.

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  • Dunedin celebrates a successful year

    Santa made a quick stop at the Dunedin Christmas party. The Dunedin Christmas Party was held at the Otago Golf Club on December 6. Franchisees were treated to a Christmas lunch and children received an early Christmas present from Santa. Regional Manager Nicky Kramers says everyone really enjoyed the Christmas

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  • CrestClean Amphibious Microlight takes to the skies

    Taupo franchisee Nancy Nandan captured these great images of the CrestClean Amphibious Microlight, which took to the skies over Lake Taupo last weekend. Pilot Derek Holmes flew the unique 100hp aircraft. It is the only one in New Zealand and displays the countries two flag options on either side of

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