Unedited footage and reports probably filmed for "SMART" network programme(s) broadcast c. March 1997

11 videos containing unedited footage and edited reports probably for use in one or more business television programmes for Sainsbury's staff (mainly store management teams) broadcast on the "SMART" network (Sainsbury's Management and Retail Television) sometime around March 1997. The Archive does not appear to have digitized recordings of any programmes broadcast during this time to confirm exactly how the footage was used.

Contents:
- Unedited footage and interviews filmed at the Sainsbury’s Bank call centre at the Bank of Scotland’s Centrebank Division offices in Edinburgh.
- Edited report about Sainsbury’s Bank presented by business television presenter John Howard. Includes footage and interviews filmed at the Sainsbury’s Bank call centre at the Bank of Scotland’s offices in Edinburgh.
- Edited report about the launch of Sainsbury’s Bank presented by Mark Jeffreys. Includes footage and interviews filmed at the Sainsbury’s Archer Road store in Sheffield.
- Unedited footage and interviews filmed inside Sainsbury’s Letchworth and St Albans stores for a report relating to a trial aiming to reduce warehouse stock holding and improve inventory accuracy by changing stock management and replenishment procedures.
- Unedited footage and interviews from the District Managers’ Workshop event held at Fanhams Hall (former Sainsbury’s management training centre) on 25 February 1997. The workshop related to the "SABRE standard path" and the "availability package" to deal with availability problems (ensuring stores had a sufficient quantity of a product available to meet customer demand).
- Unedited footage filmed at supplier Oscar Mayer Quality Foods' factory in Chard where they were making Sainsbury’s new lasagne. This new ready meal was developed as part of the "Better Quality, Same Price" initiative to improve the quality of own-brand products. The footage includes business television presenter John Howard on a tour of the factory seeing how lasagne is made. Steven Poole (Development Director of Oscar Mayer) explains the production process.
- Unedited interviews about Sainsbury’s new lasagne made by supplier Oscar Mayer Quality Foods in Chard. The new lasagne was developed as part of the "Better Quality, Same Price" initiative to improve the quality of own-brand products. Rupert Thomas (Sainsbury’s Senior Ready Meals Buyer) and Steven Poole were interviewed by business television presenter John Howard. They discuss the development of the recipes and how it was improved; reviewing the product; taking those recipes into large scale production at the factory; and how it compares with the previous version and competitor products. The interviews were filmed in the test kitchen at the Oscar Mayer factory.