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In Tauranga, all the franchisees new to CrestClean in the past four months are now also fully trained in Hard Floor Care. “I tell all my franchisees they need this skill if they’re going to be doing any sort of floor care,” says Jan Lichtwark, Regional Manager for Tauranga. “Some say that none of their

For the past six years, CrestClean franchisees Khaled and Zeynab Khaled have been providing cleaning services for Express Data Limited’s head office in Mount Wellington, Auckland. As a way to recognise and show appreciation for one of their longstanding customers, the Khaleds decided to provide morning tea for the staff of about 40 people. Plates

Invercargill Regional Manager Glenn Cockroft appears to be future proofing his region’s business. In the past two months, two franchisees from the team have given birth. Jackie Batoy has a new baby boy named Anthony Junior and Julie Cacdac has a daughter named Lovi. To celebrate the births, Glenn presented them both with framed New

The kids at St Claudine School are so thankful they won the Cleanest Classroom competition, they made a special ‘thank you’ card for CrestClean franchisees Danish and Aijita Sharma. It was presented the same day the kids received their special prize for winning the competition – a pizza lunch. St Claudine is a Catholic School

New Health and Safety legislation places clear onus on School Principals as “Officers” of their organisations. The Government’s proposed Health and Safety Reform Bill, due to come into effect in April 2015, attempts to clearly define a set of “Positive Due Diligence” actions to be demonstrated by “Officers” of an organisation, and will require evidence

The ability to learn new skills in order to provide a range of services to customers is just one part of growing a successful CrestClean business. Some new franchisees get the opportunity to jump right into the more skilled services by attending the required training courses early in their careers with CrestClean, which recently occurred

We practice everyday for this! C’mon… give us a hand to celebrate and build awareness of Global Handwashing Day – today, the 15th of October. It’s a great time to remind the folk around you, especially kids, about the importance of clean hands. There’s lots of information about Global Handwashing Day and this website has

The NZQA-accredited Industry Training Organisation, Careerforce, has validated the training and assessment programme used by CrestClean to prepare our personnel for work in the commercial cleaning industry. The validation was a result of Careerforce’s review of training and educational material used by Master Cleaners Training Institute and already approved by the British Institute of Cleaning

Holding the annual conference for the New Zealand Principals’ Federation at ILT Stadium Southland, home to New Zealand’s first indoor velodrome, was an inspiration for Glenn Cockroft, CrestClean’s Invercargill Regional Manager. “I used to have a bike shop years ago in Invercargill and I had some bicycles that I thought would be fun in a

CrestClean made sure to put on a good show for their seventh year attending the New Zealand Principals’ Federation annual conference with a prominent exhibitor’s booth and giveaways including an LCD TV and 27 rugby balls. Crest’s stand was a hit with delegates. The three-day event, which draws principals and school staff from all over

Even though they’ve doubled the size of their business during their seven years as CrestClean franchisees, Jean and Michael Dellow are not too busy to spend a special part of every day visiting their three grandchildren. “Because we work near where they live in Wellsford, we stop by every day on the way to work

Franchisee Maya Ram is now riding in style behind the wheel of a new car, freshly sign-written with the CrestClean brand and logos. Maya works in Christchurch South, where he purchased a franchise a little more than a year ago. He was driving an older Subaru that he’d intended to replace, as it was getting