Whangarei News

• Meet Tony Hickling, our...

  

  Please join us in welcoming Tony Hickling, our new Regional Manager for the Northland region. Tony joins CrestClean with 16 years’ experience in the cleaning industry, having previously worked in national sales roles for 3M and Kemsol, where he looked after large customers and distribution partners. “So, I was well

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• CrestClean’s ‘top tier’ enhance...

  

  CrestClean is celebrating the completion of the Aspire2 Workplace Communication Programme by all its Regional Master Franchisees. The programme is aimed at enhancing professional capabilities and covers a variety of topics, including verbal and non-verbal communication, delegation, conflict resolution and active listening. In recognition of the achievement, a graduation ceremony

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• Kerikeri Primary School's tidiest...

  

  Instead of ‘an apple for the teacher’, CrestClean franchisee Nisha Khan gifted Kerikeri Primary School teacher Angela Sime with chocolates and a coffee cup — and the class got pizza, fruit juice and lollipops. The occasion? For being tidy Kiwis! Room 14 was the winner of the latest Cleanest Classroom

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• CrestClean's Northland meeting rucks...

  

  CrestClean’s Northland Regional Team Meeting was a real ‘try-umph’, after rugby great John Leslie made a surprise appearance. The former Scotland and Highlanders centre, who was appointed Head Coach of Northland’s Semco Taniwha rugby team earlier this year, delivered a motivational speech at the meeting, after which he joined franchisees

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• CrestClean’s debut at Diwali...

  

  Dhanyavaad (thank you) to Radio Tarana for having us at their annual Diwali Expo! It is the first time that CrestClean has attended the popular Auckland event, which attracted 10,000 people and resulted in lots of interest in our franchise offerings. Prior to the expo, CrestClean aired its first ever

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• Nisha says being her...

  

  Nisha Khan used to work long hours as a team leader for another cleaning company, but now she is proud to own her own CrestClean business, together with her husband Mohammed. “I am working less hours and earning more. We have more time for the family, it’s heaps better. If

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• Jeffrey is bowled over...

  

  CrestClean’s Jeffrey Ganley is excited to have been selected for the Freemasons New Zealand Special Olympics National Summer Games. Jeffrey will be representing Special Olympics Whangarei in indoor bowls, after his team was placed at regional competitions last year. One of the country’s largest multi-sport events, the games will be

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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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• 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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• From conservation to cleaning...

  

  After a 20-year career wrangling wild animals — from California to the Galapagos Islands — Kelvin Walker was looking forward to returning to his hometown of Whangarei to enjoy a quiet retirement. But there’s quiet, and then there’s too quiet. “There’s only so many times you can catch a fish

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• Brotherly success sees CrestClean...

  

  A chance meeting by a lake in Rotorua lead to an unexpected change in career for Mohit Sharda. Unhappy in his job as the head chef of a busy restaurant, Mohit was out walking by the lake when he struck up a conversation with a CrestClean franchisee. “I saw his

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• New Regional Managers fishing...

  

  As far as fishing goes, trout never held that much of an appeal for Kent Wilkinson. But, now that he’s swapped the pebbly shores of Lake Taupo for the sandy beaches of Northland, he is looking forward to getting his fishing rod out again. And saltwater fish are not the

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