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.

  • Long service award for regional manager

    It’s said that time flies when you’re having fun. CrestClean’s Caroline Wedding says the past seven years have gone by in a flash. “It just seems like yesterday that I came on board with CrestClean,” added Caroline, the company’s Auckland West Regional Manager. Caroline loves her role and has enjoyed

    FULL STORY
  • Colleagues on hand to support CrestClean couple for...

      It wasn’t just friends and relatives who celebrated with Payal Venakr and Sam Nand on their big day. Their CrestClean ‘’family’’ was also on hand to wish the happy couple well when they tied the knot in Christchurch. Payal and Sam, who bought a CrestClean business six months ago,

    FULL STORY
  • Home dream for new business owners

    Dhaval Amin and Aakanksha Patel have just joined CrestClean and been praised for their commitment.

      For Dhaval Amin it was a case of “try before you buy” when he began looking for a business that would generate enough extra income for a deposit on a home. Like so many other young Auckland couples, Dhaval and his wife Aakanksha Patel’s hopes of being homeowners seemed

    FULL STORY
  • Carpet care helps boost his business

    CrestClean’s Sudhir Saksena is not a person to rest on his laurels – he’s grown his business tenfold in just four years. Sudhir joined CrestClean in 2014 and focused his efforts on his cleaning business in the evenings while holding down a fulltime day job as a delivery driver. But

    FULL STORY
  • Trish finds her niche volunteering after CrestClean’s rallying...

    Trish Richards presents a vacuum sealer to Wayne Moss, a team leader at Loaves and Fishes.

      A rallying call encouraging CrestClean’s Nelson personnel to help out in their local community struck a chord with Trish Richards. Trish, who has undertaken volunteer work for charitable organisations before, dropped in on Loaves and Fishes, a community meals project in central Nelson. “I enjoy helping out where there’s

    FULL STORY
  • Business owners drive CrestClean’s success

    CrestClean’s Managing Director heaped praise on the company’s local business owners at the annual team meeting in Rotorua. Grant McLauchlan said the company’s turnover has grown by 12.4 percent nationally in the past financial year and the Rotoura region had played an important part in that increase. “We’ve become a

    FULL STORY
  • Couple now own a six figure business after...

    Biren Kumar and his wife Swaran came from Fiji with nothing. Ten years on they are now running a successful CrestClean business.

      A couple who refused to let cruel thieves ruin their dream to move to New Zealand are celebrating 10 successful years with CrestClean and now own a six-figure business. Biren and Swaran Kumar had been left penniless when their home was burgled just days before they were due to

    FULL STORY
  • Final assessment sees CrestClean personnel pass ‘with flying...

    Ashneer Datt shows CrestClean personnel tips on the safe use of a vacuum cleaner. Looking on is Adam Hodge, CEO of the Master Cleaners Training Institute.

      Health and safety came under close scrutiny for CrestClean personnel being assessed as part of their final training to become competent cleaners. The Invercargill team members were attending a Module 2 course delivered by Ashneer Datt on behalf of the acclaimed Master Cleaners Training Institute. Also on hand was

    FULL STORY
  • TV show features New Zealand’s ‘happiest cleaner’

      He’s been dubbed New Zealand’s happiest cleaner and there’s no mistaking that Cicero Calzada loves his work – the evidence being loud and clear. The CrestClean business owner, who just can’t resist breaking into song at every opportunity, appeared on TV Three’s The Project in the show’s weekly roundup

    FULL STORY
  • Business owners support athlete’s bid to represent New...

    Joeline Jones with CrestClean’s Colin and Linda Bartlett.

      Caring CrestClean couple Linda and Colin Bartlett have helped to pave the way for a preschool teacher to represent New Zealand in Spain at an international athletics event. Thanks to the generous support of Motueka locals, Joeline Jones is now on track to attend the World Masters Track and

    FULL STORY
  • Beat that! Globetrotting chef has longest commute in...

    Lalith Degambada tucks into lunch at the recent CrestClean team meeting in Rotorua.

      If CrestClean looked to find which of its business owners has the longest commute the red hot favourite would surely be globetrotting chef Lalith Degambada. As well as owning a cleaning franchise in Rotorua, Lalith’s talents in the kitchen are in high demand at Sydney’s prestigious International Convention Centre,

    FULL STORY
  • New team shines bright with award

    Yogeeta and Amidesh Singh with their children, Yashika, 3, and Amisha, 8.

      On the living room wall of Yogeeta and Amidesh Singh’s Auckland home there is a certificate that’s testament to her commitment of gaining a bachelor in education degree. Alongside the graduation award will soon hang another framed certificate – a Certificate of Excellence from CrestClean. The award is not

    FULL STORY