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  • Cleanest Classroom at St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School

    Pupils are eager to find out who has won the next Cleanest Classroom Award. Room 10 pupils were treated to a pizza lunch after they won the first round of the competition. CrestClean’s Cleanest Classroom competitions are held at many of the 262 schools that are cleaned by Crest franchisees.

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  • Team building put to the test at principal's...

    Team building exercises formed part of the Nelson Principals’ Association Conference. CrestClean Nelson Regional Manager Barbara de Vries and National Sales Manager Chris Barker attended the two-day conference, which was held at Lake Rotoiti in Nelson on November 5 and 6. CrestClean is a bronze sponsor of the Nelson Principals’

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  • Sarah celebrates 10 years with Crest

    Sarah McCormack has enjoyed seeing Crest grow over the last 10 years. Sarah looks after the Franchisee Financial Services arm of CrestClean. In recognition of her 10 year service, Sarah, who is one of many long-standing CrestClean personnel, was presented with a glass plaque and a $2000 travel voucher by

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  • Samy achieves 10 years cleaning Fonterra Crawford St

    Hamilton franchisee Dorsamy (Samy) Goundar is one of the Fonterra “Crawford St family”. Samy has been taking care of the CANPAC premises for 10 years. CANPAC Distribution Centre Manager Ben Crawford says “Samy is a core member of our team”. “He does an incredible job and is a joy to

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  • Christchurch and South Canterbury Quality Assurance Co-ordinator appointed

    Sanjeev Raj is the new Christchurch and South Canterbury Quality Assurance Co-ordinator. As part of his role, Sanjeev, who is based in Christchurch, will undertake quality audits, assist with implementing new contracts and be a guiding force for franchisees new to the business. CrestClean has similar co-ordinators in Auckland, the

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  • North Harbour team ‘honoured’ to meet Rt Hon...

    North Harbour franchisees were ‘honoured’ to meet Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key. After officially opening the premises, Mr Key visited Northern Arena in Silverdale, where he made the time to meet Crest’s North Harbour team – Radhna and Naresh Mani and Rameshwar Sharma. The three have been cleaning Northern

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  • Taranaki Team Spirit

    Taranaki franchisees enjoyed catching up with Regional Manager Prasun Acharya. Franchisees Angeline Krithi and Sebastian M.V. attended the first Taranaki coffee catch-up with Prasun. The meeting was held at Colombus Coffee in Palmerston North. Prasun says the meeting was a good opportunity to catch up with franchisees. “We discussed a

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  • A job well done

    Here’s some positive comments from a local CrestClean customer: The cleaners from Crest consistently do an excellent job at the campground and they are a pleasure to work with. Hygiene is super important in this environment, where people prepare food in the kitchen and wash up in the bathrooms. I

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  • Childcare premises always left ‘Crest’ Clean

    Anuragni and Sangeet Chandra take a lot of care when they clean their customers’ premises. The husband and wife team relocated from Fiji to New Zealand eight years ago. As part of their current contract base, Anuragni and Sangeet take care of Otumoetai Plunket, ABC Bayfair, ABC Tauranga Central and

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  • Winners! Indian Business Awards Excellence in Marketing and...

    Congratulations to Viky and Nileshna Narayan, CrestClean’s South and East Auckland Regional Managers, for winning the ‘Business Excellence in Marketing’ and ‘Business Excellence in Innovation’ Awards at the Indian Newslink Indian Business Awards. Crest was also a finalist in the ‘Business Excellence in Customer Service’ category, which was won by

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  • Principals’ pleased with conference prizes

    Freemans Bay School, Kereru Park Campus and St Leonards Road School principals were the lucky recipients of prizes as part of Crest’s booth at Te Akatea Maori Principals’ Conference. CrestClean is proud to be a silver sponsor of the Te Akatea Maori Principals’ Association. The conference, which was held from

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  • Good vibes at Wellington regional team meeting

    Celebrating Crest’s 500 Franchises achievement was one of many highlights on the agenda at the Wellington, Hutt Valley and Kapiti Coast team meeting. About 70 franchisees attended the meeting that was held at the Wellington Cadet Centre on September 12. A number of awards were presented to franchisees. These included

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