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Groomer Pedia® is the first reference encylcopedia for the pet grooming industry. There are 2 separate areas here, 1) Magazine and 2) Reference Forum. The What's New link above simply helps to keep you current with new posts to either Magazine or Reference Forum areas.
Magazine. You are presently in the online magazine for Groomer Pedia®. What you are reading now is a magazine "Article" and hundreds more will be coming as the site grows. Articles are sorted into sections and categories listed in the right column here and most other pages of the magazine area. Navigate to sections and categories by clicking their titles. Easy.
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Groomer Pedia® is about uniting and helping members of the grooming industry. We are creating a legacy reference work about people that have contributed to the industry and their information so it will always be available. There is minimal commercial advertising here. If you are an author and would like to archive your professional articles here, please do! You can create a profile for the public here, and every time someone reads your articles in this magazine, they can link to your personal web site. It's a great promotional tool for your writing career at no cost. Also, many of our definitions support other web sites. Most definitions have links to other web sites.
Project Timeline: Groomer Pedia® is a work in progress. We will have at least 500 definitions completed in 2010. Please be patient. If you would like to help author or edit our Reference Forum definitions, please contact Stephen, Webmaster at findagroomer@earthlink.net. Thank you!
John Nash, Founder of Nash Academy of New Jersey, Co-Director of Nash Academy Lexington KY, and Co-Director of International Judges Association, has passed away at the age of 58 after a gallant three year battle against bladder cancer.
“Few people in grooming have influenced our industry in such a dramatic fashion,” stated Shirlee Kalstone. ”He was always an innovator, way ahead of his time.”
Establishing Nash Academy in 1979, John was also a respected international grooming judge, educator and speaker. He won the Cardinal Crystal Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Dog Grooming Industry. In 1988, John and Vivian Nash opened Nash Academy in Lexington, KY and they began an student exchange program with the Sepia School of Dog Grooming in Japan and the KK Grooming School, Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1998, Vivian and John Nash founded the International Judges Association for arm Dog Grooming Competitions, an organization dedicated to standardization and fairness in judging of dog grooming competitions worldwide. They also created the Triple Crown of dog grooming competitions, in which an individual could win prize money of $30,000, the largest ever offered in dog grooming competition history.
In 2004, celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Nash Academy expanded into the world of online training by offering online classes globally. In 2008, Nash, Inc. launched www.CanineReference.com, an online canine encyclopedia and in 2009, they launched www.GroomersReference.com, an online reference with illustrated guides for bathing, grooming and styling every AKC breed. In 2009, Nash opened Nash Europe.
Donations may be sent to the Nash Brighton Project, c/o Global Gain, 449 W. Sixth St., Lexington, KY. This project was established by John and Vivian Nash in 2009 to establish a school for the poor in a small town in Jamaica, that they loved.
On or before February 1, 2010 we will release the results of PetGroomer.com Surveys conducted during 2009. The 2009 results will be presented in a new format too! Please come back around February 1, 2010. At that time we will also open up new 2010 surveys.
Since 1998, PetGroomer.com has obtained more than 30,000 completed surveys. That number is off the charts in comparison to other surveys. If you would like to review prior year results you can do that today at the Survey section of PetGroomer.com. Click here.
Since 2001 PetGroomer.com has tracked the number of grooming businesses in the United States. You can view state-by-state results. At present we are updating our studies for 2009 and the results will be shown here soon.
You can view 2001/2004/2007 results at PetGroomer.com by clicking here.
Survey Results - Pet Grooming Career Seeker Survey for 2008 7,202 questionnaires were completed. 94.3% completed... ...
Survey Results - Pet Grooming Career Seeker Survey for 2007 7,191 questionnaires were completed. 91.6% completed all... ...
Survey Results - Pet Grooming Career Seeker Survey for 2006 7,222 questionnaires were completed. 90.2% completed... ...
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