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Home-grown commercial cleaning company CrestClean is celebrating 21 successful years with predications of an even brighter future. The company, which began two decades ago with a single franchise business, now has 606 individual franchised businesses and carries out 2.071 million cleaning hours each year. It is the largest trainer of cleaning personnel in New Zealand.

When an 8-year-old wrote a heartfelt “thank you” card for his classroom cleaners he had no idea of the effect the sentiments it contained would have. The boy’s hand-written card, left for CrestClean’s Kumaran Nair and his wife Reshmi, spelled out his gratitude for the couple’s work at Christchurch’s Westburn Primary School. Receiving glowing compliments

Taking his family to see their tennis hero win a major tournament has been one of the many highlights of the past 10 years for Amit Kumar. Such occasions have only been possible thanks to having a profitable CrestClean business, he says. “We are tennis fans and we’ve been to the Australian Open a couple

Winning a state-of-the-art vacuum cleaner left Christchurch teacher Chris Els totally “gob smacked”. Chris, the Deputy Principal at Redwood Primary School, was stunned after learning he’d scooped the prize in a draw held at a recent gathering of the country’s top teachers. The annual New Zealand Principals Federation Conference is supported by CrestClean, who are

You could say cleaning is truly in his blood. Just 6 years old and living in a remote island republic in the Central Pacific, Toroman Mwemwenteata was expected to do his share of household chores. “When I was a young boy back in Keribas I used to do the cleaning around the house,” he says.

It’s no wonder this gleaming CrestClean all-electric van is turning heads in Tauranga. With its bright graphics, depicting “Lovin’ our ZERO EMISSION vehicle”, the Nissan e-NV200 was unmissable to visitors arriving at the city’s Bayfair Shopping Centre. Its owner, Tauranga franchisee Jon Moon, is not only switched on to the energy saving benefits of the

Cleaning just got a whole lot easier at Howick Intermediate School – and it’s all due to CrestClean’s Cleanest Classroom Award. Ajneel and Bhartika Singh, who look after the Auckland school, say it’s thanks to the programme that classrooms are no longer being left messy. It means they don’t have to spend valuable time picking

Cleaning used to be a tall order for CrestClean’s Asad Siddiqui as his role at a Wellington school means working between five floors. But the 37-year-old former chef has more than stepped up to the challenge – and says he’s never felt fitter. In just three months since buying a CrestClean franchise with his wife

Her approach to the job and going the extra mile have won her many plaudits from happy customers. And in her manager’s eyes, she’s queen of the kindies after great feedback he’s received about the standard of her work. Jim McManus, CrestClean’s Whangarei Regional Manager, says Tish Geaumb is a rising star and does a

When Amardeep Singh decided to quit his management job with Z Energy he was pumped knowing he’d made the right decision. After a decade of working for the fuel firm, he decided the time was right to rev up his CrestClean franchise and go full time with the business he’d purchased with his wife Mandip

A health and safety expert says schools are risking heavy fines if their caretaker falls off a ladder and has not got adequate safe systems of work in place for working at heights. Chris Chapman believes a number of caretakers have never had any specific training for their role and are failing to comply with

The buzz of becoming homeowners took on a whole new meaning for a Tauranga couple when they found a huge wasp nest the size of six rugby balls under the lounge floor. Michael Melville-Barton got a huge surprise after crawling under the Otumoetai property to replace a faulty TV aerial cable and spotting the giant