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.

  • Auckland party sees biggest gathering of CrestClean business...

    It was the biggest ever gathering of CrestClean personnel when 380 business owners and their employees from the Auckland region came together for the annual Team Meeting. The event, at the city’s Alexandra Park, marked a stellar year for the Auckland business owners and saw a number of long service

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  • Health and safety a big focus for regular...

    Taranaki Regional Manager Prasun Acharya with his team at one of their regular catch up meetings.

      CrestClean’s catch up meetings for its Taranaki personnel are proving popular for coffee connoisseurs among the team. Regional Manager Prasun Acharya says getting together on a regular basis is all part of being a member of the “Crest family”. Meeting up over coffee is a great way to start

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  • Celebrating 10 successful years in business

    Robertus and Laima Vork receive their Certificate of Long Service from Aby Latu.

      They say time flies when you’re having fun and enjoying what you’re doing. Ask Robertus Vork where the past 10 years have gone and he’ll be stuck for an answer. It’s been a decade since Robertus and his wife Laima bought their CrestClean business – and they can hardly

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  • They can be proud of their achievements

    Andy Lee, Maninder Singh and Japinder Pandher with their training certificates.

      It was moment to celebrate for these three Tauranga business owners who’ve studied hard to gain an industry recognised qualification. Andy Lee, Maninder Singh and Japinder Pandher are the latest CrestClean franchisees to gain a Level 2 Certificate in Commercial Cleaning. The certificate, awarded by the Master Cleaners Training

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  • Centre manager’s delight with CrestClean team

    Lollipops Centre Manager Sonia Jordan with CrestClean business owners Shahash Adhikary and his wife Isha Pyakurel.

    CrestClean business owner Isha Pyakurel knows the importance of maintaining hygiene and cleanliness around children. As a mum herself, she has worked at kindergartens as a staff reliever. So when Isha began looking after the cleaning at Lollipops early childhood centre, New Plymouth, the work was second nature to her.

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  • Kids fired-up after rugby guru’s top tips

    John Leslie (left) and Mike Williams, Mount Sports Junior Rugby chairman, with the under 12s team.

    Rugby legend John Leslie was in demand when he dropped into Tauranga as part of his nationwide tour to boost the number of junior rugby coaches. The ex-Highlanders player and former Scotland international held a free workshop for volunteer coaches at Mount Maunganui Sports Club. Mike Williams, Mount Sports Junior

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  • Meet our newest Taranaki team

    Afelee Niumea and Makalita Afelee with CrestClean’s Taranaki Regional Manager Prasun Acharya.

      Working for themselves had seemed an impossible dream for husband and wife Afelee Niumea and Makalita Afelee. They’d managed to buy a home of their own – but the New Plymouth couple, who have five children, were struggling financially to make much headway. However that all changed last year

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  • Nelson Regional Manager clocks up 10 years’ service...

    Barbara and Shane de Vries have just marked 10 years’ service with CrestClean.

      When Barbara de Vries bought a cleaning business in 2008 it was meant to be stopgap until she figured out her next move. Now a decade later she and her husband Shane have just clocked up a decade with CrestClean and recently received a long service award to mark

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  • NZ Citizenship another milestone for hardworking Crest business...

    Janeth and Jonathan Luna with their children Jyra and Jaslyn.

    When Janeth Luna left the Philippines to join her husband for a new life in New Zealand her first job here couldn’t have been more hands on. She faced a steep learning curve that was more than a little out of her comfort zone. Milking cows on the Southland dairy

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  • Regional Trainer celebrates 7 years with Crest

    Jill Shepherd has just clocked up seven years with CrestClean.

      By the time she was 21 Jill Shepherd had had nine jobs. “I was a bit of rebel when I left school,” she freely admits. Jill has certainly had a rich and varied working life. She’s been a trainee microbiologist; run a motorcycle parts department; driven vans, and owned

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  • Holiday reward for winning Crest’s Master Franchisee of...

    Nicky and Tony Kramers with their children Isaac, 11, Nicholas, 8, pictured during their family holiday to Mount Maunganui after winning the Master Franchisee of the Year Award.

    Clinching CrestClean’s inaugural award for the Master Franchisee of the Year has capped off a stellar year for Tony and Nicky Kramers. The Dunedin couple, who won a family holiday to Mount Maunganui, have been praised for their professionalism and for introducing new and innovative ways to make their business

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  • Principal praises Crest for improving cleanliness of school...

    Clean toilets are often said to be one of the marks of a good school. They are an area renowned for getting messy and ensuring they are properly cleaned calls for a systematic approach using tried and tested techniques. Improving the cleanliness of the loos was a driving factor that

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