New Zealand News

  • CrestClean shows its commitment...

    CrestClean recently attended the General Practice Conference and Medical Exhibition in Rotorua, signalling its ongoing commitment to the healthcare sector. It is the first time a cleaning company has had an exhibition stand at the event, which was run in conjunction with the New Zealand Medical Association and attended by

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  • Thanks for having us...

    CrestClean had a great time catching up with everyone at the annual Secondary Principals’ Association of New Zealand (SPANZ) Conference in Queenstown. Held at Rydges Lakeland Resort, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, it was a really positive event, and an opportunity to both catch up with existing customers and

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  • CrestClean mixing with the...

    CrestClean is making a name for itself on the world stage, as a finalist in the British Institute of Cleaning Science’s (BICSc) 2021 Outstanding Corporate Member of the Year Award. The BICSc governs the cleaning industry in the United Kingdom and has more than 50,000 members worldwide. CrestClean has been

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  • Proud CrestClean parents as...

    Screenshot of cricketer on TV.

    Congratulations to Northern Districts player Nensi Patel, who has been awarded Women’s Domestic Player of the Year at the ANZ New Zealand Cricket Awards 2021/22. Nensi’s proud parents Nisha and Hitesh own a CrestClean franchise in Tauranga, while her uncle, Pinakin, is the Tauranga Operations Manager. The award recognised Nensi’s

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  • CrestClean vehicles shine at...

    CrestClean’s twice-yearly vehicle audits kicked off in the Central North Island last week, and it’s shaping up to be the best year yet, says Health, Safety and Wellbeing Leader Ian Noon. “It’s been really successful so far. The general standard of presentation is very high and the franchisees all seem

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  • 'White Ferns hopeful' makes...

    Female cricketer batting.

    When New Zealand and India compete again each other in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup the Patel family won’t know who to cheer for the loudest. India-born, but with a White Ferns hopeful in the family, their loyalties will no doubt be divided. “It’s the question people always ask,”

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  • CrestClean Wins Supreme Franchise...

    CrestClean is excited to have won New Zealand’s most prestigious franchise award — the 2021 Westpac Supreme Franchise System of the Year. The award was announced last night at an online ceremony, hosted by TV Presenter Wendy Petrie.The judges praised CrestClean for its franchise system, teamwork and high satisfaction rates

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  • Double the action as...

    CrestClean is proud to sponsor not one but two top beach volleyball teams as they compete this summer for a spot in the Commonwealth Games. We are once again getting behind beach brothers Sam and Ben O’Dea, but this year there is a twist — the brothers, who previously played

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  • Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn...

    CrestClean’s Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft is proud to have been awarded a Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) for services to traffic safety, in the New Year Honours 2022. “It was very much a surprise and I am very humbled,” says Glenn, who was given the heads-up a couple of months

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  • Regional team meetings round...

    CrestClean’s regional team meetings are always cause for celebration, as individual, regional and national achievements are recognised. Despite the challenges of 2021, most of the regional team meetings were able to go ahead, even if it did involve some re-scheduling and mask-wearing! Overall, hundreds of franchisees from around New Zealand

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  • CrestClean achieves 25 years!

    December 16th, 2021, marked an important milestone in the history of CrestClean — our Silver Jubilee! It has been 25 years since CrestClean was launched, in which time we have grown to become the largest NZ owned cleaning company, involving more than 2,000 people, serving over 5,200 customers. From humble

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  • Disposable surgical masks significantly...

    Research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW)* has confirmed that disposable surgical masks are much more effective than cloth masks at minimising the spread of droplets. UNSW researchers used a high-speed camera and LED lighting system to capture how different masks perform when people are speaking, coughing and

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