Franchise Business Success Stories

Read on and celebrate success with our people from around New Zealand. Milestones reached, awards won, recognition from our customers - success comes with many faces - a smile from a positive comment, a home purchased through business success and confidence, a smile to the camera while receiving a long service award. Let’s always share our success together.

  • Jeffrey is bowled over to be selected for...

    Cleaner wearing sports medals around his neck.

    CrestClean’s Jeffrey Ganley is excited to have been selected for the Freemasons New Zealand Special Olympics National Summer Games. Jeffrey will be representing Special Olympics Whangarei in indoor bowls, after his team was placed at regional competitions last year. One of the country’s largest multi-sport events, the games will be

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  • Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft receives Queen’s Service...

    CrestClean’s Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft is proud to have been awarded a Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) for services to traffic safety, in the New Year Honours 2022. “It was very much a surprise and I am very humbled,” says Glenn, who was given the heads-up a couple of months

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  • Regional team meetings round off a successful year...

    CrestClean’s regional team meetings are always cause for celebration, as individual, regional and national achievements are recognised. Despite the challenges of 2021, most of the regional team meetings were able to go ahead, even if it did involve some re-scheduling and mask-wearing! Overall, hundreds of franchisees from around New Zealand

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  • CrestClean achieves 25 years!

    December 16th, 2021, marked an important milestone in the history of CrestClean — our Silver Jubilee! It has been 25 years since CrestClean was launched, in which time we have grown to become the largest NZ owned cleaning company, involving more than 2,000 people, serving over 5,200 customers. From humble

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  • Dries celebrates 20 successful years

    Congratulations to Master Franchisee Dries Mangnus, who has clocked up an impressive 20 years with CrestClean! It’s a great milestone to achieve, from a humble start picking up a few scattered foundation franchises around Auckland, to the creation of CrestClean’s largest Master Franchise. Dries leads our largest team of franchisees,

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  • Career switch secures Cromwell couple’s financial future

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    He used to work in a suit and tie, transporting the rich and famous around Queenstown, but when Covid hit and Vikram Singh’s income plummeted, it was a cleaning business that secured his future. “There’s so much unpredictability in the world right now regarding employment and money, but the cleaning

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  • Auckland franchisees excited to be saving towards their...

    Husband and wife cleaning team standing together.

    Siueva and Faalele Sapati thought home ownership was out of their reach, but six months after buying a CrestClean business the Auckland couple are excited to have started saving towards their dream. “Financially, we have seen an improvement and now we have the opportunity to save towards our first home.

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  • Gore franchisee achieves wellness goals with CrestClean

    Husband and wife cleaners standing under a tree.

    When Millard Macairan had a heart attack at the age of 52, he knew something had to change — so he bought a CrestClean franchise. Millard had been working on dairy farms for 12 years, when the early starts and demanding workload took a serious toll on his health. “It

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  • Successes celebrated at Tauranga and Whakatane team meeting

    Both individual and company milestones were celebrated at CrestClean’s Tauranga and Whakatane Regional Team Meeting. Speaking at the event, which was attended by more than 30 franchisees, CrestClean Managing Director Grant McLauchlan told attendees there was much to celebrate, after another successful year. The company had grown more resilient and

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  • 100% of CrestClean personnel complete new Health and...

    CrestClean is proud to have reached an important milestone, with 100% of its franchisees and their employees having completed the company’s new Online Health and Safety Induction. More than 1960 CrestClean personnel have achieved compliance under the new system, which was introduced in April as both an induction and a

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  • Lockdown increases earnings for Auckland franchisees

    Cleaners wearing masks, standing by their van.

    Ali Irshad and Sheema Ali are thankful to own a business that has not been impacted negatively by Covid lockdowns. In fact, their income has increased, and they have been able to offer more work to one of their employees who lost his other income stream. “My wife and I

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  • Christina takes the lead with top payroll qualification

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    CrestClean’s Payroll and Human Resources Leader Christina Kelliher has qualified as a Certified Payroll Leader — achieving the highest Payroll Accreditation possible in New Zealand. The New Zealand Payroll Practitioners Association (NZPPA) is the country’s largest payroll professional body and is focused on developing payroll as a recognised profession in

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