Untrained cleaners? An accident waiting to happen

Quality training requires quality trainers, writes Master Cleaners Institute CEO Adam Hodge.

26 July, 2017

CrestClean chemicals receive ECNZ endorsement

CrestClean’s five core janitorial chemicals have been approved by Environmental Choice New Zealand.

23 May, 2017

CrestClean to double market share by 2024

CrestClean seeks to double market share over the next seven years.

23 April, 2017

CrestClean receives ECNZ sustainability tick

CrestClean has received the green tick of approval from Environmental Choice New Zealand (ECNZ) for its adoption of sustainable practices.

9 March, 2017

NZ contractor calls for national standard to encourage workforce training

New Zealand’s commercial cleaning company CrestClean has called for the introduction of a national standard for the $1 billion commercial cleaning industry after figures released by New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) revealed a ‘shocking level of training uptake by cleaners,’ stated a 26 March press release.

26 March, 2015

Cleaners exonerated for breaking King Tut’s mask

New Zealand commercial cleaning company CrestClean welcomed reports that ‘the cleaners were not to blame for breaking the beard of the priceless King Tutankhamen mask at the Egyptian National Museum’, stated a 5 March media release.

5 March, 2015

BSCNZ dismisses CrestClean’s statement as ‘smoke and mirrors’

In a 28 August statement to INCLEAN, the Building Service Contractors of New Zealand (BSCNZ) has strongly rebutted comments made by the CrestClean franchising business that was circulated in a post on the e:clean newsletter last fortnight.

28 August, 2014

Changes to procurement rules good for industry, says CrestClean

CrestClean believes recent changes to the New Zealand Government’s Rules of Procurement have been positive for the cleaning industry in New Zealand. In a press statement (19th August 2014), the company said, ‘While the Building Service Contractors New Zealand (BSCNZ) are upset that their stranglehold over government contracts has been replaced by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Principles of Government Procurement, CrestClean welcomes the move

20 August, 2014

CrestClean instigates BICS NZ base by establishing Master Cleaners Training Institute

Dunedin-based CrestClean has established a training organisation that it says will provide new training skills to New Zealand cleaners. The CrestClean press release said that the initiative was in response to ‘the collapse of the Building Service Contractors Industry Training Organisation (BSCITO)’. However, Building Service Contractors of New Zealand’s Bob King has told INCLEAN that […]

21 November, 2012

CrestClean asks NZ Government to fix labour law changes

According to a 14 May article by Voxy.co.nz the New Zealand Government is being called to fix Part 6A in Labour law changes. ‘Any changes to the industrial relations laws must address the mess resulting from Part 6A in the Employment Relations Act 2000 says New Zealand’s leading privately owned cleaning and hygiene company CrestClean.’ […]

21 May, 2012