Franchise Business Success Stories

Gayaneshwar Raju was one of the first franchisees to relocate to Hamilton from Auckland. “I was in Auckland but I didn’t like it,” he says. “There was too much traffic and it was really busy. We moved to Hamilton and even though it is getting busy, we still really like

CrestClean has been named Southern Business of the Year for 2015 by the Otago Daily Times. Crest received a full page profile on the front page of the Business and Money section of the newspaper on Saturday, December 26. The profile highlighted Crest’s business philosophy, the franchise model and how

Sandeep Singh has been with Crest for nearly three years and she has the only female run franchise in the Waikato. “People said Crest is a good business to be part of and they were right – it is,” she says. “I was looking for a job that I could

“It’s been a really good journey,” Pramesh Datt says. Auckland Central franchisee team Pramesh and Vandhana Sharma have achieved a 10 year milestone with CrestClean. Regional Manager Dries Mangnus presented Pramesh and Vandhana with a 10 year glass plaque and a $2000 travel voucher in recognition of their achievement. “Crest

Congratulations to Viky and Nileshna Narayan, CrestClean’s South and East Auckland Regional Managers, for winning the ‘Business Excellence in Marketing’ and ‘Business Excellence in Innovation’ Awards at the Indian Newslink Indian Business Awards. Crest was also a finalist in the ‘Business Excellence in Customer Service’ category, which was won by

James and Sarah Yun’s customers think the world of them. The Dunedin husband and wife team are celebrating 10 years with Crest. They are two of a number of Crest’s long-standing franchisees. During the last decade James and Sarah have seen a number of changes. “A lot has changed. We

CrestClean has just celebrated their first anniversary of cleaning all 63 BestStart Centres in the South Island with very happy clients. BestStart is New Zealand’s largest private provider of early childhood education, with nurseries, preschools, kindergartens, Montessori and childcare facilities from Kaitaia to Invercargill. As the umbrella organisation for over

Diego Gonzalez could not stop smiling after he received a certificate of completion from the Master Cleaners Training Institute acknowledging his achievement. MacLaren Park Henderson South (MPHS) Community Trust, which is one of CrestClean’s customers, asked Auckland West Regional Manager Caroline Wedding to see if there was a training program

For Prasun and Diksha Acharya, owning their own business was out of reach until they discovered CrestClean’s Move to the Regions Programme. The programme, which started in 2011, provides people, who would like to own their own business, with an opportunity to move outside of Auckland and Wellington. Prasun and

Principal Gavin Beere was just a couple of years into his tenure at South Auckland’s Hillpark School when he decided to take a critical look at the primary school’s cleaning services. “There’s one main reason why people look at cleaning operations,” he said recently during a presentation at CrestClean’s Masters

West Auckland franchisees Irshad and Shema Ali featured in a New Zealand Herald article published on 20th April. Titled “Getting the right fit is key for franchises,” the story was in the Small Business section of the daily paper and quoted Irshad and Shema talking about their experiences running their

Davendran and Prithi Nair thought they might never be able to buy a house. Originally from Fiji, they decided to purchase a CrestClean franchise because Prithi’s brother in law was in the business and they liked the idea of running their own franchise and being their own boss. After 10