'JS Journal', March 1987

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3, 8
  News
  Page 4-5
  Branch opening
  — Belgrave Road
  Homebase opening
  — Southgate
  Page 6-7
  Fast food — the story of JS ready meals
  Page 9-15
  Senior management conference with pull out guide to top executives
  Page...

• Data services appointment
  02

  Data services appointment
  MARTYN HEALY JOIf
  the company on February 16, a
  data services manager, reporting
  to Alan Jacobs.
  He replaced Graham Paxton
  who left JS at the end of
  January.
  He will be senior manager
  responsible...

• FRONTLINE
  02

  FRONTLINE
  THE JOURNAL is back to full
  strength (meet the new editorial
  assistant on page eight) and
  walking tall with a seasonal
  spring in its step.
  Here's hoping its readership is
  in a similarly perky mood,
  because we...

• Golden wedding gift to the arts
  02

  Golden wedding gift to the arts
  SIR ROBERT and Lady Sainsbury, through their Art
  Trust, are making a grant of £4.5 million to the
  University of East Anglia. The gift marks their Golden
  Wedding anniversary in March.
  In 1973...

• WOMAN at WORK
  02

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  One cartoonist's view of the ready meal...

• Driving ambition achieved at Charlton
  03

  Driving ambition achieved at Charlton
  CHARLTON DEPOT is proud
  to announce it now has a brace
  of HGV driving instructors.
  On February 11, driver,
  Jimmy Ross received his instructor's
  certificate from depot manager
  Bernard...

• Face lift for sea hero's home
  03

  Face lift for sea hero's home
  THE HOME of one of Britain's
  maritime heroes is to be refurbished
  with the aid of a donation
  from JS.
  The National Trust has
  launched The Sir Francis
  Drake Heritage Appeal which
  aims to raise...

• Homebase holiday club
  03

  Homebase holiday club
  HOMEBASE WILL BE
  treating hundreds of customers
  to some holiday spending money
  this year.
  A promotion aimed at
  building customer loyalty will be
  running until March 15. The
  scheme is known as...

• JS helps with high aspirations
  03

  JS helps with high aspirations
  Lord Tryon, draw winner Brian Ford and Michael Goodman. SALISBURY STORE AND
  Sainsbury's Charitable fund
  have contributed over £4,000
  towards Salisbury Cathedral
  Spire Appeal.
  The Cathedral's...

• Lesson in home economics
  03

  Lesson in home economics
  JANE BABBAGE, home economist
  for the south west, has been
  speaking to a younger audience
  recently.
  She is in the middle of a series
  of demonstrations to students
  from schools in the south....

• Branch opening—Belgrave Road
  04

  BELGRAVE ROAD The first store to open in 1987 was Belgrave Road in Leicester. But first
  the snow had to be cleared. Mountains were piled up behind the store to
  leave a clear way for enthusiastic customers. The Belgrave Road...

• Homebase opening—New Southgate
  04

  NEW SOUTHGATE Steve Shepherd welcomed flocks of DIY and gardening
  enthusiasts to his new store on February 5. Conveniently sited
  just off the North Circular, New Southgate looks set for success 1. Customers were drawn to...

• 'READY WHEN YOU ARE'
  06

  IN RECENT YEARS
  the UK has seen
  several changes in
  society which have
  opened up a whole
  new consumer market.
  The changes cover a range of lifestyles: the
  Government report 'Social Trends' showed a
  continuing rise in female...

• More donations to neighbours
  08

  More donations to neighbours
  Featured here are more community groups for the elderly
  which have benefited from the JS Good Neighbour
  Scheme. It involved the donation of a total of £50,000 to
  150 groups throughout the country....

• Smoother Systems
  08

  Smoother Systems
  ON THE RETIREMENT of Len
  Payne, the company systems and
  data processing departments
  were merged.
  Alan Jacobs, departmental
  director, data processing and
  systems, explained why:
  'In the past we worked...

• Transfer deal for Dominic
  08

  Transfer deal for Dominic
  HOYILBASL'S LOSS is the
  Joumars gain as Dominic
  Long gives up salary, benefits
  and share options to become
  editorial assistant on the
  Journal.
  No, he isn't working for
  nothing, those arc just a...

• Senior management conference with pull out guide to top executives
  09

  EASTBOURNE
  - A C O M P E T I T I V E C O N F E R E N CE
  IMPROVING THE COMPETITIVE EDGE was t h e t i t l e of the
  Senior Managers' Conference which t o o k place in Eastbourne
  on January IS and 26. Directors gave reports to...

• PENSIONS ARE PUTTING ON WEIGHT
  13

  PENSIONS ARE PUTTING ON WEIGHT
  The new improved JS Pension and Death Benefit Scheme
  means that everyone will be better off in the future. Thanks to investment paying off particularly well the scheme
  was recently valued as...

• Design your own CHRISTMAS CARDS
  14

  THIS MAY BE the season of
  lambs and daffodils but as we
  launch the JS Journal Christmas
  Card Competition we'd like you
  to be thinking of Santa and
  sleighbells.
  Our competition is divided
  into two sections — 11 and...

• FAMILY DAY will be Forties style
  14

  FAMILY DAY will be Forties style
  GET SOME IN! Take yourselves
  back to National Service
  days and report for duty at the
  Griffin Club, Dulwich, on
  Sunday, June 7. Family Day,
  this year, will be steeped in the
  forties to...

• HOMEBASE AS HOME WRECKER!
  15

  IT WOULD seem that the
  growing trend for DIY has
  sent shudders through the
  normally tranquil scenes of
  domestic bliss.
  Homebase head office has
  recently received the following
  on a customer comment
  card:
  'I think the...

• LISA WOODLAND
  15

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• 'Walkies!'
  15

  IF ANYONE
  HAD
  said 'walkies!'
  at Harrow
  store on
  February 5,
  • there would
  have been a large exodus.
  On that day the branch
  played host to four guide
  dogs and one 'trainee'
  puppy. They were present
  with their owners...

• BOUQUET FOR 89th BIRTHDAY
  16

  BOUQUET FOR 89th BIRTHDAY
  TOTTENHAM MANAGER.
  Phillip Chapman, said it with
  flowers recently.
  He presented a long standing
  customer a lovely bouquet in
  celebration of her 89th birthday.
  The lady is taken to JS each
  week by...

• CLOWNS COLLECT CASH
  16

  CLOWNS COLLECT CASH
  WHEN NEWPORT WAS
  raising funds for Children
  in Need (JSJ Dec 86), they
  made sure they were dressed
  for the occasion.
  Wearing clown outfits,
  staff rattled their tins in the
  street and, thanks to...

• THE ARMY
  16

  THE ARMY invaded Chertsey recently. In the store's
  car park, the Territorials set up a demonstration of
  radio signals equipment.

• TOP UP FOR GOOD NEIGHBOURS
  16

  TOP UP FOR GOOD NEIGHBOURS
  IN 1986, AS part of the Good
  Neighbour Scheme, Burnley presented
  Brunlea Special Children's
  School with £250 with
  which to buy much needed
  equipment.
  Although the money was a
  welcome...

• WEDDING CHEERS FROM THE SSA
  16

  WEDDING CHEERS FROM THE SSA
  HAPPY COUPLES ARE
  very bubbly this Spring and
  four couples are particularly
  bubbly thanks to ten green
  bottles.
  The bottles are filled with
  champagne and 40 of them
  have been given by the SSA...

• EASY RIDERS FIND THE GOING GETS TOUGH
  17

  HOW DID YOU see out 1986?
  Neil Bruce, dairy buyer, ended the year
  sneaking around a car park in Versailles
  pretending not to be working on his
  motorbike.
  He was making some last minute preparations
  for the 1987 Paris-Dakar...

• A potted history
  19

  Six different styles of bloater jar shown here in chronological order.
  A potted history
  'Take 1121bs boned red herring
  { M M (new season's herring arrive
  ^—^ Aj with us approx Jan).'
  ^ My So began the official JS
  ^r ^p...

• Feedback
  20

  FEEDBACK
  Help for
  handicapped
  From: Audrey Bolton, South
  Norwood
  My colleague and I regularly
  shop in your store with groups
  of mentally handicapped people.
  We have always found your
  staff most helpful and...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Peter Brewer, meat manager at
  Bury Park, Luton, has completed
  25 years' service with the
  company.
  He joined JS as a trainee
  butcher at George Street, Luton,
  where he spent ten years before
  transferring to...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  Julie Anderson, health and
  beauty assistant at Haverhill,
  died on December 31, aged 42.
  She had been with the company
  for seven years.
  Brian Butler, driver at
  Basingstoke, died suddenly on
  January 16, aged 44.
  He...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Edward Gordon, shunter at
  Charlton depot, has retired after
  33 years with the company.
  Benjamin Crouch, leading
  warehouseman at Buntingford
  depot, has retired after 25 years
  service with the company.
  Frederick...

• NEW LINES
  21

  NEW LINES c u ^ ^ S e s are
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  threshold o b .n e 1S
  m a i ° , S U S n a « * e states,
  no^ made...