Image of employee Stephen Goodwin preparing the meat the night before the opening of Park House, Park Street, Ashford store, 1978

Keywords: half year results, Discount '78 p.1; tea and ice cream exports to Bahrain p.2; butter subsidy p.2; recruitment p.3; TV commercials, advertising p.3; Harold Hill, burgalry p.3; Tonbridge, store development, joint venture with Bentalls pp.4-5; beverages, mixers, spring water, soft drinks p.5; kitchen ware, non-foods, Muppet mugs p.5; Dunstable, branch opening p.6-7&14; Discount'78, profit accounts pp.8-9; Ashford, store opening pp.10-11; food testing, buyers p.15; George Pearce p.18; Cyril Goodman p.19; Ann Everett, first internally appointed woman to senior management p.20; Jim King p.21; Norman Harding p.22; York ham, counter display, archives p.23.