Nelson News
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Young couple enjoy new...
FULL STORYClaudia Allen and her partner have found that age is no barrier to working for yourself. The 22-year-old has not only followed in her aunt’s footsteps by joining CrestClean, she and Troy Nicholas, 24, are among the company’s youngest franchisees. The couple recently relocated to Nelson from Auckland and are
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Attention to detail wins...
FULL STORYThey are two professional women in occupations that are poles apart. But architecture and commercial cleaning have one big thing in common – attention to detail is everything. It’s a value shared by architect Simone Wenk and CrestClean business owner Tracey Andersen. Simone has set the bar high for the
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Trish finds her niche...
FULL STORYA 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
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Business owners support athlete’s...
FULL STORYCaring 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
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Nelson Regional Manager clocks...
FULL STORYWhen 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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School bags a prize...
FULL STORYWhen 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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Business allows couple to...
FULL STORYCharlie and Vicki Stratford are living the dream after compressing their full time job into just two and half days a week. The Nelson CrestClean business owners have given over their Friday evenings and Saturdays and Sundays to work. But the trade-off is they can relax the rest of the
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School has surprise gift...
FULL STORYGoing the extra mile for her customers is something Michelle Lockhart prides herself in. She loves working at Motueka South School where she and her husband Ross share the cleaning duties on Monday to Friday each week. So the Nelson franchisee didn’t have to think twice about donning her CrestClean
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Pride in owning their...
FULL STORYLokendra Bista says owning a cleaning business has fulfilled a long-held ambition to be his own boss. Having a CrestClean franchise has given him the confidence to look at bigger things, he says. “It’s given me a sense of ownership. It’s my company and I own the business. “Have studied
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Lucky ticket wins Julie...
FULL STORYIf anyone deserves a holiday in the sun it’s Nelson’s Julie Ashton. Since starting with CrestClean four years ago, any thoughts of an overseas trip have been a distant dream as she concentrated on building her business. But that’s all changed after hardworking Julie, who has recently doubled her turnover,
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Crest adds bags of...
FULL STORYChristmas came early for delegates attending an Administrative Professionals event in Nelson. CrestClean’s Nelson Regional Manager Barbara de Vries made sure everyone attending the lunch received a special goodie bag that was packed with promotional products. More than 80 people attended the annual event, organised by the Association of Administrative
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Praise for Crest from...
FULL STORYCrest’s Nelson Regional Manager Barbara de Vries was on the ball when she met local school principals at their annual get together. CrestClean are the Bronze sponsors of the Nelson Principals Association Annual Conference and the company takes pride is supporting the hard work the principals do in maintaining high