'JS Journal', August 1986

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-4
  News
  Page 5
  Branch opening — Stevenage
  Page 6-7
  The JS Annual General Meeting for Shareholders
  Page 8
  Industry Year — the thinking behind the campaign
  Page 9
  New products - JS and Homebase
  Page 10-11
  Traditional...

• FRONTLINE
  02

  FRONTLINE
  EVEN THE RETAIL trade press
  recognises that JS is the
  'in-place'.
  According to The Grocer,
  magazine JS is definitely hip. To
  quote: 'There is always an "inplace"
  or an "in-thing" to do —
  especially if you are a...

• JS & Homebase Staff Discount Scheme
  02

  OCTOBER 1 sees the
  implementation of the JS &
  Homebase Staff Discount
  Scheme mentioned briefly in the
  April issue of the Journal.
  We can now supply some more
  details about the Scheme.
  Twice a year on October 1 and
  April 1...

• New appointments
  02

  ON JULY 1, chairman, Sir John
  Sainsbury, announced a number
  of new appointments.
  Paul Cootes, previously
  production manager at Basingstoke
  depot, has been appointed
  personnel manager, trading
  departments, Blackfriars.
  Paul...

• Fundraising Fergusons
  03

  Fundraising Fergusons
  Roy Pagden presents the cheque to Susan Ferguson,
  stepmother of Sarah Ferguson, now the Duchess of
  York. Centre is Jane Makim, sister of Sarah. Standing
  behind is retired newsreader, Gordon Honeycombe. AS...

• Princess visits Plaza
  03

  Princess visits Plaza
  ON JULY 2, the Princess of
  Wales opened the Exeter 'Plaza'
  leisure centre, adjacent to the
  Exebridge store which opened in
  March this year.
  Part of the JS car park was
  used for the visit.
  Representing...

• VISION 2010
  03

  VISION 2010
  Pictured are the 21 visionaries looking to the 21st century.
  Paul Cootes is second from the front, third from the right.
  Also pictured is, front row, extreme left, Dr Penny Birdseye
  of the CBI, who is co-ordinating...

• Age concern
  04

  Age concern
  COMMUNITY GROUPS with
  responsibility for the elderly are
  to receive support from
  Sainsbury's community project,
  the JS Good Neighbour Scheme,
  during 1986/87.
  In the past three years JS has
  supported various...

• IT'S THAT time of year
  04

  IT'S THAT time of year when
  YTS students from branches up
  and down the country emerge at
  the end of an action packed
  training year with not only a
  certificate but hopefully a job at
  JS. Photographed above are
  trainees from...

• OPENINGS
  04

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• SOVIET DELEGATION VISITS BURPHAM
  04

  SOVIET DELEGATION VISITS BURPHAM
  SOVIET MINISTER of Agriculture,
  Mr Vsevolod Serafimovich
  Murakhovsky,
  visited Burpham branch on
  July 5 with other members of
  central committee.
  Conducted on the visit by
  chairman. Sir John...

• Staying clean
  04

  Staying clean
  NUNEATON BRANCH has
  won a local council food hygiene
  award for the seventh consecutive
  year.
  Several local traders were
  invited to enter the hygiene
  certificate and Nuneaton was
  judged by the council to...

• Branch opening—Stevenage
  05

  STEVENAGE
  Opening date: 1 July 1986
  Address: The Poplars, Magpie
  Crescent, Stevenage, Herts
  Opened by: Chairman, Sir John
  Sainsbury
  Manager: Keith Millen
  Staff: 350 (120 new jobs)
  Sales area: 37,000 sq ft
  Car park: 600...

• QUESTION TIME FOR THE BOARD
  06

  Unusual Public Tribute to JS
  A DIRECTOR of the
  Bank of England took
  the opportunity at the
  Annual General Meeting
  on July 2 to congratulate
  JS on its impressive
  performance.
  David Scholey is the
  company's main City...

• INDUSTRY YEAR 1986
  08

  INDUSTRY YEAR 1986
  THE MESSAGE from Industry Year is:
  industry creates the wealth that society needs
  for its survival.
  And what Industry Year hopes to do in
  communicating this message is to strengthen
  everyone's awareness of...

• New meals are ready
  09

  New meals are ready
  WITH THE CHANGE of habits
  in eating and living in the eighties
  comes an exciting new range of
  Sainsbury's chilled prepared
  dishes.
  Ten of these new ready meals
  have been launched in recent
  months and...

• Not just pretty dishes
  09

  Not just pretty dishes
  SAINSBURY'S HAS a new
  range of oven to table ware made
  from beautiful, but durable,
  white porcelain.
  There are 11 lines in the range
  (priced from 99p to £4.95) which
  includes an...

• Painting made easy
  09

  Painting made easy
  NEED A NEW coat? Try Homebase's
  new range of paint for size.
  Easy Cover Solid Emulsion
  and Easy Gloss Acrylic Paint are
  two new paint ranges recently
  launched by Homebase. Both
  have been manufactured for...

• Tools for kitchen craft
  09

  Tools for kitchen craft
  BAKING AND MEAL preparation
  is made easy with
  Sainsbury's new cooking aids,
  available from 81 branches.
  There is a range of nine
  wooden utensils which includes
  meat mallet, handled rolling...

• The Butcher, the Baker...
  10

  The Butcher, the Baker...
  Richard Lamport and the art of butchery.
  Graham Standfield keeps an eye on the French sticks. SAINSBURY'S MAY not yet have a
  candlestick maker among its skilled
  craftsmen but butchers and bakers at...

• My kind of place
  12

  My kind of place
  A life in the year of a JS placement student
  Every year around 25 placement students spend 12 months at JS. Usually
  in their third year at university or polytechnic, the students are often
  reading degrees in...

• LE FIASCO FRANCAIS
  13

  LE FIASCO FRANCAIS
  JUST A SHORT HOP to France
  but Warren Heath's SSA
  treasurer, Christine Todd,
  recounts in rhyme how a simple
  day trip to Boulogne turned into
  a Brian Rix farce.
  Now let's not be late, we're not going to...

• NICHOLAS HORLER
  13

  NICHOLAS HORLER, deputy
  bakery manager in training at
  Worle, has won the British
  Diabetics Association's (BDA)
  Young Chef 1986 competition.
  To raise public awareness of
  diabetes and its treatment —
  there are over one...

• ALTHOUGH SOAKED
  14

  ALTHOUGH SOAKED to the
  skin, five merchandisers and one
  marketeer, from head office,
  could not be accused of being wet
  on July 11. They were taking the
  plunge for charity in a sponsored
  It's A Knockout competition at
  Guy's...

• Applying ambition
  14

  Applying ambition
  THE FOLLOWING letter was
  received recently at Northwich
  branch;
  I am 12 years old and would
  like to put my name down for a
  Saturday job and a holiday job.
  I am in the sea cadets and want
  to join the navy...

• BOWLS
  14

  BOWLS WERE rolling for the
  Pat Ronan Challenge cup on
  June 8.
  For the second year running
  Buntingford depot was competing
  against Hoddesdon depot
  in a riveting match. And, as
  happened last year, the result
  rolled in favour...

• BRAINTREE
  14

  BRAINTREE HAVE been
  doing some hard fundraising
  in order to make a donation to
  the town's William Julien
  Courtald Hospital.
  The money was raised by a
  number of activities including
  an auction, raffles and a
  pancake race...

• June's fruitful Family Day
  14

  June's fruitful Family Day
  IT WAS THE perfect end to the
  perfect day for June Jones of
  Maidstone, winner of the SSA
  quarterly £1,000 draw (centre
  left).
  On Family Day, June was
  presented with the cheque by
  Cecil Roberts,...

• Oldchurch Hospital Scanner Appeal
  14

  IN JUST OVER three and a half
  hours, Andy Deacon, above right,
  assistant baker manager at Dford,
  raised £430 in aid of the
  Oldchurch Hospital Scanner
  Appeal.
  Along with thousands of
  others, Andy took part in the
  London...

• SILVER BELLS
  14

  SILVER BELLS were ringing for
  Josie and Alf Staines on July 29.
  It was on this day 25 years ago
  that the two were married.
  Alf, who is deputy manager at
  Harpenden and Josie, supermarket
  assistant at Woodhall
  Farm, met in...

• Soviet students visit Stockport
  14

  Soviet students visit Stockport
  TO MOST BRITISH peopl
  a trip to the supermarket o
  Saturday morning is a routine
  chore. But to 30 Russian
  exchange students, it was an
  exciting sightseeing tour!
  On Saturday June 7,...

• A WALK from Bristol to Keynsham
  15

  A WALK from Bristol to
  Keynsham kept seven YTS
  students from Clifton Down
  branch, busy in June.
  In adverse conditions they
  covered ten miles to raise money
  for Southmead Hospital Special
  Care Baby Unit, Bristol.
  Their...

• Heroism on the last train
  15

  Heroism on the last train
  LEE DAVEY, management trainee at
  Salisbury had just watched England's
  inglorious exit from the World Cup on
  Sunday, June 22 and, thinking nothing
  more depressing could happen on that
  day, was...

• Marriage
  15

  WHILE DISPLAYING the prepack
  bacon, one day in July 1984,
  Michelle asked Frank out!
  Four months later they got
  engaged and on June 14 this year,
  they were married.
  Frank Mudd is a senior tradesman
  at Bracknell and...

• Something in the air
  15

  THERE MUST HAVE been
  something in the air in 1961.
  This year, no less than ten
  ladies from Stafford will be
  celebrating their silver wedding
  anniversaries — the equivalent of
  two and a half centuries of
  marriage!
  In...

• Macmillan fundraising—activities around the stores
  16

  • THERE'S BEEN a run on
  salads in the Nuneaton canteen
  and it's nothing to do with the hot
  weather.
  Twenty ladies from the store
  (right) have recently completed a
  four week sponsored slim to raise
  cash for the fund....

• Right Royal Gala
  18

  ARCHIVES
  Right
  Royal
  Gala IF YOU THOUGHT the Royal
  Wedding was fun, you should
  have been at Dulwich 33 years
  ago this month. A bumper fete to
  celebrate the Coronation packed
  the Griffin sports ground with JS
  people. And...

• Appointments
  20

  Nicolas Allcock, formerly
  deputy manager at Lords Hill,
  has been appointed manager of
  Shirley.
  Deneyes Barnes, formerly
  manager at Dunstable, has been
  appointed manager of Heyford
  Hill for the opening this month.
  Gordon...

• Long service
  20

  Steve Biddlecombe, departmental
  manager, branch productivity
  services (BPS), has completed 25
  years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company as commercial trainee
  and then joined branch staff
  planning. In 1966, Steve...

• Obituary
  20

  Betty Cocks, cook at Worle died
  after a long illness on June 30,
  aged 44.
  She had been with the company
  for six years.
  Mary Connolly, senior supermarket
  assistant at Kilburn, died
  on June 14, aged 43.
  She had been with the...

• Retirements
  20

  Frederick Knights, manager at
  Bishops Stortford, has retired
  after 36 years with JS.
  He joined the company as a
  senior trainee at Sidney Street,
  Cambridge and in 1958 became
  assistant manager at New Barnet.
  Frederick was...