'JS Journal', December 1984

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• A message from the Chairman
  02

  A message from the Chairman
  Sir John Sainsbury with Brighton Hill's bakery manager, Mike
  Read and assistants, Gruila Taliani and Gill Adams. May I offer all staff my sincere best wishes
  for a Happy Christmas and for good...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3, 9
  News
  Page 5-7
  Openings —Keighley, York
  Page 8
  Movie-making—the new JS film
  Page 10-22
  Conserving our energy
  Page 12-13
  It's crackers
  Page 14-15
  Your 1985 Journal calender
  Page 16-17
  New products
  Page...

• Interim results
  02

  Interim results
  £m
  JS First-half Profits
  (Group profit before tax)
  Today's money values in italics.
  75.1
  30.8
  (40.7)
  48.8
  4 2 - 5 (53.6J
  (50.3,1
  80/81 81/82 82/83 83/84 84/85
  Stock Market Values
  Source: Britain's top...

• James Sainsbury CBE
  03

  James Sainsbury
  JAMES SAINSBURY, CBE, who died on October 24 after a long
  illness borne with great fortitude, was a director of J Sainsbury for 33
  years and a prominent member of the provision trade for even longer.
  He was the...

• Tribute from Lord Trenchard
  03

  Tribute from Lord Trenchard
  MAY I add a tribute to the late
  James Sainsbury. The members
  of the company already know of
  his contribution to their great
  organisation, but I would like to
  add a word about his contribution
  to...

• Conservation award
  04

  Conservation award
  THE RESTORATION of Green
  Park Station has earned Sainsbury's
  a top award.
  Completed two years ago, the
  Victorian station and train shed
  were recently singled out for the
  presentation of a...

• Cook against cancer
  04

  Cook against cancer
  SAINSBURY'S has recently
  donated £250 towards a cookery
  demonstration in aid of the
  Malcolm Sargent Cancer fund
  for children.
  Held in the Lyric Theatre,
  Hammersmith on November 13,
  the demonstration...

• Cool and qualified
  04

  Cool and qualified
  MEET FOUR young men who
  are hot on refrigerators. Left to
  right with certificates are Vince
  Anderson, Bromley area; Mark
  Pearson. Uxbridge area: David
  Glitz, Romford area and Chris
  Skelton, Woking area....

• Correction
  04

  Correction
  BEFORE ALL buyers, merchandisers,
  accountants etc. from
  SavaCentre start packing their
  files and paperclips away in tea
  chests, please note that the Priory
  Park SavaCentre project will not
  include, as stated in...

• Generous act
  04

  Generous act
  A DIFFICULT ACT to follow.
  that was the presentation of a
  cheque for £5,000 by JS to the
  Queen's Theatre. Hornchurch.
  The theatre launched an
  appeal when the Arts Council
  withdrew its annual grant.
  Area...

• It's in the bag for NSPCC
  04

  It's in the bag for NSPCC
  The Duke of Westminster,
  chairman of the NSPCC centenary
  appeal, is pictured above
  receiving a sackful of proofs of
  purchase from Cromwell Road
  store manager, John O'Sullivan.
  In conjunction with...

• JS book prize
  04

  JS book prize
  FOR THE second year running,
  the company has donated £50
  towards the 'J Sainsbury Book
  Prize' at the South Bank Polytechnic
  to be presented to the
  year's most outstanding computer
  studies student.

• Senior appointments
  04

  Senior appointments
  SIR JOHN SAINSBURY announced
  on October 19 that
  Colin Gatenby has been appointed
  head of grocery ii. He was
  previously deputy head of
  grocery iii.
  The Chairman also announced
  that Andrew Taylor has...

• With local help
  04

  With local help
  . . . NSPCC POSTING boxes are
  springing up everywhere—not
  only in branches up and down the
  country but now at Gerrards
  Cross Methodist church.
  Members of the congregation
  who find Uxbridge branch a...

• Branch opening—Keighley
  05

  'WE'RE THE FURTHEST store north,'
  proclaims the new Keighley store manager,
  John Roberts . . . 'Well until York opens next
  week anyway.'
  In the heart of Yorkshire this town of stone
  boasts a backdrop of rugged moorland...

• Branch opening—Foss Bank
  06

  IN THE HISTORIC city of York the new JS
  shopping complex stands like a modern
  castle at Foss Bank.
  And customers certainly stormed the
  battlements on the opening mornings-
  October 18 for Homebase and October 23 for
  the...

• Company on camera
  08

  Company on camera
  TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, MGM and
  now Sainsbury's—all film makers extraordinaire.
  Movie critics agree that the latest
  JS production is powerful stuff. There's a
  strong story line, enlightening facts,...

• Adventure for YTS winners
  09

  Adventure for YTS winners
  CLINGING for dear life to a
  mast or to a donkey trekking
  round Scotland was what the
  adventure holiday, enjoyed by
  five YTS area winners, was all
  about.
  Together with several other
  branch...

• International Day
  09

  THE EAST Yorkshire Federation
  of Women's Institutes held a
  very successful International Day
  in September, with a little help
  from Sainsbury's.
  Organised to give those
  interested a detailed insight into
  a specific country,...

• Job to do well
  09

  Job to do well
  FIVE WEEKS in Sri Lanka is
  what summer is all about
  according to Rebecca Potterton,
  a Brighton Hill venture scout.
  At the age of 16, Rebecca has
  volunteered to take part in an
  expedition organised by...

• Lady baker
  09

  Lady baker
  ANOTHER FIRST lady for
  Sainsbury's!
  The first female bakery
  manager in the company has
  recently been appointed at
  Maidstone branch.
  Liz Tovey, who joined the
  company in 1982, was previously
  at the National...

• Mini marathon
  09

  Mini marathon
  SAINSBURY'S RECENTLY
  donated vouchers towards the
  Invalid Children's Aid Association
  Mini Marathon.
  Held on November 4 in
  Battersea Park, 1,000 able-bodied
  and handicapped children and
  young people crawled,...

• The mice say cheese
  09

  The mice say cheese
  NIBBLING on some exotic
  cheeses, paid for by JS, are the
  children of John Evelyn primary
  school, Deptford.
  As part of their book week, the
  children read books with a mouse
  theme. At the end of the...

• Talking about energy
  10

  Talking about energy
  Energy management is good for the company
  .. . it's also good for the country EVERYONE REMEMBERS the government's
  'Save It' campaign. The country was
  urged not to waste energy, to switch off lights
  in...

• Going crackers for Christmas
  12

  ALL WAS not well in Father Christmas's grotto where for
  over a year pixies and fairies had been toiling hard to put
  the snap back into their crackers. 'It's ho ho hopeless,'
  said Father Christmas, 'we'll never get it right,...

• Your 1985 Journal calender
  14

  JS JOURNAL CALENDAR 1985 Senior Managers Conference JANUARY
  SUN 6 13 20 27
  MON 7 14 21 28
  TUES 1 8 15 22 29
  WED 2 9 16 23 30
  THUR 3 10 17 24 31
  FRI 4 11 18 25
  SAT 5 12 19 26
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• As new as they come
  17

  As new as they come
  JS Beaujolais Nouveau est
  arrive!
  For the first time, Beaujolais
  Nouveau (£2.39, 70cl) has
  appeared under the Sainsbury's
  own label.
  This is a light, fruity wine
  of the new Vintage and
  traditionally...

• Unwrapping the Christmas dinner
  17

  Unwrapping the Christmas dinner
  CHRISTMAS DAY comes but
  once a year and when it does—
  there's often chaos in the kitchen!
  To ensure that yuletide celebrations
  really do bring good
  cheer, JS has come up with this
  latest...

• A yuletide tale
  18

  A yuletide tale
  YOUR CORRESPONDENT has
  just taken a trip in the JS
  time-warp vehicle to bring readers
  an exclusive view of part of
  Santa's diary for Christmas 1985.
  Monday December 16. I open
  my first out-of-town Santa's...

• Microwave sales heat up
  18

  Microwave sales heat up
  IN THE SEVENTIES, sales of
  microwave ovens grew steadily
  until a setback in 1978 when the
  market was affected by a safety
  scare. These fears now seem to
  have evaporated and prices of
  ovens have...

• No sparks from Marks
  18

  No sparks from Marks
  MARKS & SPENCER produced a
  mixed set of results for its half
  year to the end of September.
  Sales increased by 12.5 per cent
  to £1,446 million but profit before
  tax only increased by 7.4 per cent
  to...

• RHM cools its eels
  18

  RHM cools its eels
  THE MINER'S STRIKE is having
  a grave effect on some neighbours
  of Britain's biggest coal fired
  power station at Drax in Yorkshire.
  The victims in question are
  hundreds of thousands of eels
  being bred by...

• Photographic competition results
  19

  Photographic competition results
  The photographs lay scattered over
  the picture editor's desk. He discarded
  some immediately and lingered over
  others. He was looking for something
  special.
  He was Christopher Angeloglou,...

• A cocktail of questions
  22

  A cocktail of questions
  CHRISTMAS IS the time of year
  for parties, dinners and 'inviting
  few friends' round. One of the
  most important factors in getting
  everyone into the festive spirit is
  well-stocked drinks cabinet....

• A question of cocktails
  22

  A question of cocktails
  TO GET a party swinging, serve
  up something really original.
  Punches go far and a good
  cocktail is always appreciated.
  Whet your whistle with one of
  these:
  Punch Drunk
  For 10-12 persons:
  Ice
  Juice...

• Great roller skating vegetables!
  23

  Great roller skating vegetables!
  DERBY CITIZENS were stunned
  recently when a carrot on roller
  skates zoomed through the city
  streets in an attempt to make a
  huge cash haul.
  The carrot was closely followed
  by a sack of...

• What are the branches up to?
  23

  What are the branches up to?
  • AREA DIRECTOR, David
  Clapham, got on his bike in
  Bromley shopping Mall recently,
  and cycled his way to raise
  £200 for the children's charities.
  Bromley branch and area office
  raised a total...

• Grapple with these Christmas puzzles
  24

  STAR WORDS
  Solve the clues and fill in the
  answers on each of the Starwords
  grids. If you do this correctly,
  you will 'discover' five
  Starwords associated with
  Christmas by adding a letter at
  the top and bottom of the...

• Bruce's rally for poor in Africa
  25

  Bruce's rally for poor in Africa
  MOTORBIKE MAD Neil Bruce,
  produce buyer at Blackfriars, is
  revving up for the race of his
  life—6,500 miles through some
  of the toughest terrain on earth.
  Neil believes he's the...

• Depot's run for school
  25

  Depot's run for school
  BUNIONS and blisters did not
  deter six Basingstoke depot
  drivers from taking part in a
  sponsored 60 miles relay from
  Bournemouth branch to the
  depot on October 14.
  Roy Burfoot. Les Cousins,
  Mick...

• Appointments
  26

  Appointments
  Stuart Cluer, formerly deputy
  manager at Bretton, has been
  appointed manager of Loughborough
  for the opening.
  Michael Dowse, formerly
  deputy manager at Wilmslow, has
  been appointed manager...

• Feedback
  26

  FEEDBACK
  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the
  editor
  Caring staff
  From: Maire Owen, customer at
  Halifax.
  I would like to say a very big
  thank you to all the staff who
  kindly looked after me so well
  when I...

• Long service
  26

  Long service
  Mick Barrett, manager at
  Cwmbran, has completed 25
  years' service with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company as assistant meat
  manager at Kenton and after two
  years transferred to High
  Wycombe. Mick became...

• Retirements
  26

  Retirements
  Frank Paine, meat manager at
  Islington, has retired after 36
  years' service with JS.
  He joined the company as a
  leading butcher at Dalston. After
  being made head butcher at
  Enfield, he transferred to
  Stamford...

• Children re-create Victorian JS
  27

  Children re-create Victorian JS
  VISITING HOLY Cross Primary
  school, Fulham, during November
  involved taking a step back in
  time, when pupils and teachers
  celebrated the school's centenary
  by mounting an exhibition
  on...

• Obituary
  27

  Obituary
  William Mann, store service
  assistant at Edmonton, died
  suddenly on October 12 aged 59.
  He had been with the company
  for four years.
  Douglas Matthews, store
  service assistant at Taunton, died
  after a long illness...

• Of ghoulies and ghosties...
  27

  Of ghoulies and ghosties...
  'One Hallowe'en,
  You might have seen
  Flyin' through Richmond
  The Sainsbury Team.
  Witches and wizards, ghosts
  and all,
  In every pub they did call,
  Collecting not spirits as you
  can see,
  But...

• Perfect love in Preston
  27

  Perfect love in Preston
  'WHEN I FALL in love, it will be .
  . . at Preston'!
  It would appear that marriage
  is made in Preston—within the
  space of three weeks a trio of
  weddings involving staff from the
  branch took...

• Ruislip branch
  27

  With trolleys at the ready, four members of
  Ruislip branch dived into their dressing up
  boxes to add attraction to a sponsored
  trolley push. Housekeeper Carol Izon, Plessey operator
  Adele Warman, grocery clerk Ann Cowling
  and...

• Hampering for Christmas past
  28

  Hampering for Christmas past
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  A TRADITIONAL means of sending the Christmas
  good cheer to friends or family is to dispatch a
  hamper packed with Christmas fare. JS excelled
  itself at displays of Christmas...