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West Auckland franchisees Irshad and Shema Ali featured in a New Zealand Herald article published on 20th April. Titled “Getting the right fit is key for franchises,” the story was in the Small Business section of the daily paper and quoted Irshad and Shema talking about their experiences running their own franchise, alongside a great

Even if you’ve played years of professional rugby for international unions and were Captain of Scotland, it doesn’t mean you know how to coach 7-year-olds. “When I turned up to manage and coach my son’s Under-7 team it was really disorganised,” recalls John Leslie, former Highlanders centre and one of the Kilted Kiwis who played

When CrestClean’s Regional Manager for South and East Auckland, Viky Narayan was called into the Wiri Oil Services office for a special meeting, he was concerned. Turns out, it was to see one of his franchisees receive top praise. As part of Wiri Oil’s performance management system, contractors who work with the company are regularly

Just in case you need another reason to have clean toilets, here it is: turns out people are doing a lot more in there than the usual. A consumer study released by SCA, a hygiene products company, shows a surprising number of people use their workplace washrooms to eat, exercise, sleep, have a cry and

Davendran and Prithi Nair thought they might never be able to buy a house. Originally from Fiji, they decided to purchase a CrestClean franchise because Prithi’s brother in law was in the business and they liked the idea of running their own franchise and being their own boss. After 10 years in business, Prithi happily

For 2015, CrestClean explored the theme of “Embracing the Digital Future” for the annual Masters Conference. The yearly gathering brings all of Crest’s Regional Managers together with personnel from Admin Services and the marketing office and gives everyone a chance to catch up in person, learn what’s ahead for the company, as well as meet

Sounds like the Egyptian National Museum needs competent cleaners they can trust. Mystery has always surrounded King Tut ever since the 1922 discovery of his elaborate tomb and remains, however the most recent controversy involves how the beard of his priceless gold death mask was broken off and shoddily repaired. Who was the first to

Master Cleaners Training Institute has once again successfully completed the British Institute of Cleaning Science annual audit. BICSc International General Manager Colin Hanks travelled to New Zealand for 10 days to conduct the audit. Master Cleaners Training Institute was found to be fully compliant with all of the audit criteria. Assessors Alistair McCormick, Julie Griffin,

As CrestClean continues to grow, new people are joining the business at all the times, in all the regions. Jason Cheng recently moved from Auckland to Hamilton to take on the role of Quality Assurance Co-ordinator for Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Jason is one of several company officers throughout the CrestClean organisation whose role

Prasun Acharya has been on the move ever since he joined CrestClean in 2013, in part due to CrestClean’s special “Move to the Regions” offer, which took him from renting in Auckland to living in Napier. He’s now moving to New Plymouth and moving on from being a Crest franchisee to leading Crest’s newest region,

It was April 2014, Marlene and Jamie Madrid had completed all of their training and were ready for the first contract in their new CrestClean franchise. It wasn’t an easy one, according to Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft. “They quickly took on a school that was not in the best of shape from another cleaning

It’s the first day of school for a brand new primary in East Auckland. Ormiston Primary School’s beautiful new facility will be kept looking shiny by a dedicated CrestClean team on site daily. The new school’s construction follows in the footsteps of nearby Ormiston Senior College, the first New Zealand school to achieve a 5