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.

  • Hygiene and cleanliness is a high priority at...

    It was a big thumbs up for the CrestClean team who ensured everything was spotlessly clean and hygienic for donors attending a New Zealand Blood Service clinic. Makalita Afelee and Afelee Niumea had their work cut out in preparing the large church building that was used as the venue for

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  • Health manager thanks CrestClean for keeping centre ‘clean...

    He had just joined CrestClean but new franchisee Raj Prasad was happy to jump into working 12-hour days to help keep his community safe. The former dairy farm manager’s first cleaning contract was to provide a round-the-clock sanitising service to safeguard staff and patients at a Papakura medical centre. Each

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  • Cleaning for NZ Blood Service brings a strong...

    He didn’t have to think twice when he heard the New Zealand Blood Service had enquired about extra cleaning for venues used by its mobile collection clinics. Wayne Ng was already carrying out cleaning and sanitising at the organisation’s Takapuna centre. It was not only work he was familiar with,

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  • Feeling the heat during specialist clean at US...

    CrestClean personnel were feeling the heat during a hard day’s work at the Christchurch base of the United States Antarctic Program. The team of six who assembled to do a total sanitising clean of the organisation’s buildings at the city’s airport were kitted out in full personal protective equipment (PPE).

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  • Cleaning teams bring reassurance to medical staff at...

    Knowing their work is helping to keep medical staff safe means a lot to CrestClean’s Akshay and Naina Kumar. The couple have been cleaning and sanitising Whakatane’s War Memorial Hall where a COVID-19 testing centre has been operating. With an initial requirement of up to four visits a day from

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  • ‘One man cleaning machine’ takes pride in working...

    New Zealand Blood Service staff have taken a real shine to CrestClean business owner Zaldy Verallo. They’ve been impressed by his attitude and the high standard of his work as he ensures everything is clean and hygenic at the numerous venues used by organisation’s mobile collection clinics. Sandra Horwell, Administration

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  • TV3 news features CrestClean team as schools prepare...

    CrestClean personnel have appeared in a TV3 news story covering preparations for the planned reopening next week of the nation’s schools. Newshub reporter Tom McRae filmed CrestClean business owner Anmol Prasad and his wife Vikashni Devi in a classroom at Howick Primary School. Also featured in the report was Liezl

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  • Covid course proves invaluable for CrestClean’s training expert

    Having the most up to date information on COVID-19 is proving invaluable for Liezl Foxcroft as she delivers online training seminars to CrestClean teams around the country. With a stronger focus on cleaning and sanitising set to become the new normal, Liezl signed up for an intensive series of training

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  • Farewells all round after nearly 15 years as...

    It was heartfelt “thank you” as one of CrestClean’s longest-serving business owners swung by the Auckland office to say goodbye to his regional managers. After nearly 15 years in the cleaning industry, Rohit Sharma is calling it a day to concentrate his efforts on the trucking company he’s built up.

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  • Couple mark seven successful years as business owners

    After seven successful years owning a CrestClean business Bura Takinoa has never been happier in his work. “I’d be happy to spend my whole life cleaning and retire as a cleaner too,” he says. “It’s a good business to be in.” Bura Takinoa and his wife Kamoroa, who are originally

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  • Former ostrich farmer celebrates milestone with CrestClean

    A former ostrich farmer is celebrating five successful years running his own CrestClean business. Cornelius Du Preez says compared with farming in his native South Africa, CrestClean has been a breath of fresh air. “Being a farmer was a lot of hard work. This has been a real change for

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  • Purchase of high-tech floor machine sees owner ramp...

    CrestClean franchisee Sandeep Kumar has plenty of firepower at his fingertips as he gears-up to further expand his business. He’s just purchased a state-of-the-art floor battery-powered scrubbing machine in readiness to begin a major new cleaning contract next month. Robert Glenie, CrestClean’s South Canterbury Regional Manager, says when Sandeep and

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