Tauranga Regional DetailsManager: Jan Lichtwark
Mobile: 021 300 452
Phone: (07) 578 3890
Fax: 0800 273 781
Email: jan@crestclean.co.nz
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“I love to empower these people and show them the benefits of choosing Crest and how Crest can make their working lives hygienic and healthy”. Jan Lichtwark
CrestClean Tauranga offers consistent and reliable commercial cleaning services that always leave your premises clean, fresh, and hygienic.
Having strong compliances helps us achieve the highest standards of service delivered by well-trained cleaning teams.
Tauranga Regional Manager Jan Lichtwark focuses on customer service and customer satisfaction. As a result, Jan has expanded the number of corporate customers and as a lifetime resident of the region, understands the region’s growth.
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Environmental Choice approved cleaning services that let us all breathe easy.
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We’ve raised cleaning standards through our training and skills development.
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We provide security vetted personnel who respect your premises and property.
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Our service is consistent and reliable, with local regional managers.
From ‘around the clock’ to daily or weekly services; contract cleaning is our main service, carried out in strict accordance with a ‘Schedule of Duties’.
Clearly cleaner windows and glass. We bring more than just a squeaky clean attitude to your windows and glass cleaning – we bring innovation.
CrestClean's convenient and professional carpet cleaning service will extend the life of your carpets, improve health and hygiene, and save you money.
We love hard floors; it’s where we really shine. We have trained, experienced personnel in each region who are skilled at maintaining hard floors.
In partnership with Alsco, we provide a large range of consumable products, hygiene services and rental equipment - all billed to a single itemised invoice.
Contracting out the caretaking role takes another burden off school principals. We set up maintenance schedules and supply the tools and equipment to do it right.
CrestClean personnel who are ensuring COVID-19 testing stations are regularly cleaned and sanitised have been trained to the highest level for the important task. A special training session, featuring a live online video presentation, has enabled cleaning teams across the country to be fully prepared when authorities ask for assistance.
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Meet three masters of their chosen profession. The Tauranga trio – Junie Bag-Ayn, Ralph Sales and Tanmeet Singh – are among the latest CrestClean business owners to graduate with Master Cleaners Training Institute. CrestClean’s Tauranga Regional Manager Jan Lichtwark was proud of the achievements of the franchisees. “Training is highly
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CrestClean business owner Pinakin Patel has stepped up to become the company’s Tauranga Operations Manager. Jan Lichtwark, Tauranga Regional Manager, says Pinakin was the obvious choice for the role. “He runs a very successful family franchise and has a huge amount of experience and knowledge from his 16 years in
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The high standard of vehicles presented for an official audit of fleet vehicles in Tauranga has been praised by CrestClean’s General Manager Franchise Services. Sam Lewis says it was another example of the owner-operators being proud of how they run their businesses. “It’s great to see franchisees taking a real
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Bringing RecycleKiwi’s iconic bird character to life was a challenge budding young animator Tai Preece took in his stride. The 13-year-old Mount Maunganui College student was invited by CrestClean to apply his animation skills to the kiwi bird, the distinctive hallmark of the company’s educational programme on recycling and waste
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Liezl Foxcroft, General Manager Training, Master Cleaners Training Institute, delivering training to CrestClean personnel via Skype. CrestClean personnel who are ensuring COVID-19 testing stations are regularly cleaned and sanitised have been trained to the highest ...
Junie Bag-Ayn, Ralph Sales and Tanmeet Singh with their certificates from Master Cleaners Training Institute. Meet three masters of their chosen profession. The Tauranga trio - Junie Bag-Ayn, Ralph Sales and Tanmeet Singh - are among the latest CrestClean business ...
Pinakin Patel (right) with Jan Lichtwark, Tauranga Regional Manager. CrestClean business owner Pinakin Patel has stepped up to become the company’s Tauranga Operations Manager. Jan Lichtwark, Tauranga Regional Manager, says Pinakin was the obvious choice for the ...
Tauranga franchisee Tan Kao with Sam Lewis, CrestClean’s General Manager Franchise Services. The high standard of vehicles presented for an official audit of fleet vehicles in Tauranga has been praised by CrestClean’s General Manager Franchise Services. Sam ...
Mount Maunganui College student Tai Preece helped bring RecycleKiwi to life. Bringing RecycleKiwi’s iconic bird character to life was a challenge budding young animator Tai Preece took in his stride. The 13-year-old Mount Maunganui College student was invited by ...
Matapihi School students Enchant'd Quinn, Kataraena Ngawhika-Kerr, Meeah-May Sullivan, Maioha Merritt-McDonald, and Alexis Ngatai. Six words in te reo Maori are helping to teach New Zealand kids good recycling habits. The words feature on a set of colourful bilingual ...
Ralph Sales loves the new look the wheels have brought to his Nissan NV200 van. When it came to jazzing up the wheels on his CrestClean NV200 van, Ralph Sales took a trip down memory lane for inspiration. He wanted to emulate the look of an AE86 series Toyota ...
Ian Noon, the company’s Health Safety and Wellbeing leader, checks out tyres on Chirag Kansara’s car. Everything came under close scrutiny during an audit of CrestClean’s vehicle fleet operating in the Tauranga region. Dozens of vans and cars were ...
Marty Perkinson parks his 1938 Ford V8 Coupe Flathead next to a CrestClean van. When he’s behind the wheel of their beloved classic coupe it’s all about the journey not the destination, says CrestClean director Marty Perkinson. Marty and his wife Anne ...
Gavin Smith shows Pinakin Patel and Chirag Kansura the battery unit from a cordless PacVac cleaner. Tauranga franchisees were swept up by innovation when they got a chance to try the latest products designed to make their work a whole lot easier. Among the new ...
Nikki Wallis receives her long service award from Grant McLauchlan, CrestClean’s Managing Director. After 10 years with CrestClean she’s adept at wearing a multitude of different hats as the company’s marketing and events co-ordinator. Nikki Wallis says ...
Mike Warnes receives the Tauranga Franchisee of the Year award from Jan Lichtwark. Winning CrestClean’s top award for the Tauranga region has capped off a stellar year for franchisee Mike Warnes. Mike, who has a Crest PropertyCare business, admits he was ...
Jan was born and bred in the Tauranga region and became Regional Manager in 2010. In the five years since, he’s doubled the number of Franchisees in the region and expanded the services on offer to include carpet cleaning, consumables, and property maintenance. Jan also provided the proving ground for CrestClean’s popular new Pure Water Window Cleaning System.
“Tauranga has a lot to offer people from young to old which has meant that it’s one of the fastest growing cities in NZ,” says Jan.
Previously with Goodman Fielder, Jan loves the focus on customer service and customer satisfaction that comes with being Regional Manager. He has expanded the number of corporate customers served by CrestClean and, as a lifelong resident, understands the region’s growth.
He’s deeply involved in Tauranga community activities, from sporting events to fundraisers, and he and his wife are now raising three young children.
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