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Video containing footage of Sainsbury's 2005 Management Conference on the theme of "Getting Better Every Day", held on Monday 19th September 2005 at Cheltenham Racecourse.

Includes footage of:
00:00:00: Company secretary Tim Fallowfield, managing director of convenience Jim McCarthy, chief executive of Sainsbury's Bank Tim Pile, finance director Darren Shapland, HR director Imelda Walsh, and retail director Ken McMeikan (with zone managing director Jon Hartland and others) appearing consecutively onstage, mostly in fancy dress costumes, promoting their products in the "bid up" (a competition in which each director supported a "hero line" and encouraged branches to boost sales).
00:14:12: Conference host explaining lunch arrangements and packs attendees should collect.
00:15:55: Presentation not held in the main conference hall by Jonathan Lawson and Brendan Glynn (job titles unclear) about strategy of convenience format, motivating staff, availability, store actions and awards for good stock levels, aimed at convenience branch managers. Includes examples from Hammersmith and Wylde Green branches, whose managers answer questions at the end. (preceded by 2 minutes of audience arriving).
00:50:46: Director of Sainsbury's brand Judith Batchelar welcoming attendees to room containing displays of new Christmas products.
00:51:18: Displays of Sainsbury's frozen Party Bites range, chocolate fountain, various Sainsbury's Christmas puddings and sponge puddings, cakes, Christmas decorations and crackers, robot dinosaur toy, beers and wines, various non-food products, and attendees sampling products and talking.
01:00:19: Part of "Syndicate Session" relating to supply chain presented by supply chain director Lawrence Christensen and Jim White (job title unclear). Continues in AV/808.

Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 55 seconds.