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.

  • Thai franchisee makes Crest history

    Aaron and Viyada Corbett with their children, twin girls Aria and Amika and son Nite

    She’s created a unique slice of history by becoming CrestClean’s first franchisee from Thailand. For Viyada Corbett, being able to have a business of her own was something she never thought would be possible. “It’s awesome, just amazing,” she says. “When I came to New Zealand it was my dream

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  • Pay boost from being own bosses

    In less than six months Minesh and Hemali Patel have doubled the size of their business.

    Minesh and Hemali Patel joined CrestClean six months and they’ve now revealed their biggest regret – they just wish they’d done it sooner! However, the husband and wife team have not wasted any time since buying their business. Impressively they’ve more than doubled their turnover in the short time they’ve

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  • Best franchisee award brings pride

    He’s gone from stacking shelves at Pak’nSave to owning and operating one of CrestClean’s largest franchises. Vinod Anthony’s meteoric rise began three years ago when he bought a small cleaning franchise after securing a bank loan to launch his dream to work for himself. His determination to succeed has seen

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  • Cleanest Classroom a win-win for all

    Smithesh Thomas hands out pizza to youngsters at Somerset Crescent School, Palmerston North.

    It’s no wonder these kids look so pleased themselves after scoring a pizza lunch for being so tidy. The Somerset Crescent School youngsters were rewarded with the tasty treat for winning CrestClean’s Cleanest Classroom Award. The competition is run at many of the 430 schools that are cleaned by CrestClean

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  • Principal’s joy at winning Crest PropertyCare draw

    There will be no shortage of rugby balls when kids return to Hamilton’s Te Kowhai School next term. Tony Grey was one of six lucky principals who won a bag of rugby balls as part of a promotion to celebrate the success of Crest PropertyCare – CrestClean’s new caretaking service

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  • Home dream achieved through Crest

    Wellington couple Dharam Singh and Lalita Devi have taken a giant step towards having a home of their own. Homeownership was unimaginable before they bought their CrestClean business as they were both working in low-paid jobs. Now their dream is about to come true with building work due to start

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  • Central Otago ticks all the right boxes

    Flexible working hours and being her own boss ticked all the boxes for Bernie Brown when she found her perfect job in Central Otago. Bernie purchased a small CrestClean franchise in Alexandra where she lives – but just three months on and she’s already looking at expanding her business. And

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  • School bags a prize in Crest PropertyCare draw

    Craig Starrenburg and Judy-Anne Sunby receive the rugby balls from Barbara de Vries, CrestClean’s Nelson Regional Manager.

    When Steve Matthews scored a bag of rugby balls for his school the timing of his win couldn’t be better. Steve, the Principal of Tasman Bay Christian School, was one of the six lucky winners in a promotion to celebrate the success of Crest PropertyCare – CrestClean’s new caretaking service

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  • Top Appeal boosted by Crest personnel

    Viky Narayan (left), CrestClean’s South East Auckland Regional Manager, with Managing Director Grant McLauchlan and Eteta Petero (right) and Princeton Jackson from the Toy Appeal.

    More than 100 Auckland kids will receive a Christmas gift thanks to the generosity of CrestClean business owners. Viky Narayan, CrestClean’s South East Auckland Regional Manager Regional Manager, was overwhelmed with the response after he sent out a plea asking franchisees to donate to the Salvation Army’s annual Toy Appeal.

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  • Bright future as cleaning company marks 21 years

    Home-grown commercial cleaning company CrestClean is celebrating 21 successful years with predications of an even brighter future. The company, which began two decades ago with a single franchise business, now has 606 individual franchised businesses and carries out 2.071 million cleaning hours each year. It is the largest trainer of

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  • Pure Water Window Cleaning comes to the North

    Mohini Coppersmith and Tarun Kumar have already expanded their CrestClean business in Whangarei.

    A CrestClean couple are spearheading the company’s Pure Water Window Cleaning that’s now available in Northland. Tarun Kumar and Mohini Coppersmith, who own a CrestClean business in Whangarei, have attended an upskilling course so they can offer the highly-specialist window service to customers. Pure Water Window Cleaning provides cost effective,

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  • Boy’s card inspires Crest’s business owners

    When an 8-year-old wrote a heartfelt “thank you” card for his classroom cleaners he had no idea of the effect the sentiments it contained would have. The boy’s hand-written card, left for CrestClean’s Kumaran Nair and his wife Reshmi, spelled out his gratitude for the couple’s work at Christchurch’s Westburn

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