'JS Journal', June 1991

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• ADMIN MANAGER COMES OUT ON TOP
  02

  ADMIN MANAGER COMES OUT ON TOP
  Ken Cohen, Central and Western area administration
  manager,has been awarded the Ralph Bell prize for
  the best paper in management principles and policy
  in the examinations of the Institute of...

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES 3-S
  WRITELINES 6/7
  THETFORD
  STORE OPENING
  A NEW APPROACH TO ADVERTISING
  NEW STORES
  HOMEBASE GARDEN CENTRE
  MANAGER IS JUST THE JOB
  10/11
  1 9 9 1 PHOTOGRAPHIC
  COMPETITION GETS
  UNDERWAY 12
  LIFELINES...

• Frontline
  02

  It seems five minutes since we were faced with the
  laborious task of sending back hundreds of your photographic
  entries in the Journal's 1990 Photographic
  Competition. How wonderful for the winners, we
  thought, but what a...

• TELFORD AWARDED TWICE
  02

  TELFORD AWARDED TWICE
  Telford hearts are beating at the double after the store
  received two Heartbeat Awards from the local environmental
  health department.
  The awards were given for provision of healthy
  food choices and...

• DISABLED WORK WITH JS
  03

  DISABLED WORK WITH JS
  JS is helping people with disabilities to achieve their
  work potential, through its involvement with the Shaw
  Centre. The aim of the Shaw Centre is to train people
  with disabilities for employment, with...

• HOMEBASE MANAGERS FACE CHALLENGES
  03

  HOMEBASE MANAGERS FACE CHALLENGES
  Homebase, which this year celebrates ten years of trading,
  held its year end management conference on May
  21 at the Heathrow Park Hotel.
  The conference was opened by Homebase chairman,
  Gurth...

• TELEVISION ADS BOOST SALES
  03

  TELEVISION ADS BOOST SALES
  The TV ad screened on May 20, in which celebrity Selina Scott is featured giving viewers
  a recipe for IVIozzarella Pasta Penne, marl designed to demonstrate...

• BUSINESS LOOKS BRIGHT IN BROMLEY
  04

  BUSINESS LOOKS BRIGHT IN BROMLEY
  Bromley Council has awarded certificates to five JS supermarkets and
  Penge Homebase under the Borough's Brighter Business awards
  scheme.
  The awards were made for the stores' sound environmental...

• WINE TASTING TITLE DECIDED
  04

  WINE TASTING TITLE DECIDED
  First prize in the Wine Taster of the Year competition, of £1,000 worth of JS wines and
  a trip to France, was awarded on May 31 to Julio Grau, a research chemist from
  London.
  To win first prize,...

• YOUNG ENERGY SAVERS TOUR WEST GREEN
  04

  YOUNG ENERGY SAVERS TOUR WEST GREEN
  Three prize-winning pupils from Nonsuch High School
  for Girls, in Sutton, were given a tour of West Green
  store following their success in a competition to find the
  best energy saving ideas...

• OBITUARY
  05

  OBITUARY
  iVIax Justice:
  Max Justice, a JS board
  director for 14 years, died on
  May 21 at the age of 78.
  He retired in 1973 and was
  president of the Veterans Committee
  from 1982 until his death.
  Max began his 43 yeare...

• SAINSBURY CENTRE EXTENSION OPENS
  05

  SAINSBURY CENTRE EXTENSION OPENS
  The Crescent Wing extension to tine Sainsbury Centre
  for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich
  (UEA) was officially opened on April 29.
  Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury and their...

• SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
  05

  SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
  Retail division:
  IAN ELKINS, currently manager
  of Kempshott store, is appointed
  district manager on the South
  Western area, with effect from
  July 28.
  John O'Sulllvan, London
  Colney Savacentre store...

• Writelines
  06

  SHORT CHANGE
  FOR SHORT
  CUSTOMERS?
  Eileen O'Hara,
  agency temporary,
  Hoddesdon depot.
  With reference to the article
  in the March Journal
  'Friends of the family', I
  applaud the company's policy
  on career bridging, but...

• Branch opening—Thetford
  08

  THETFORD
  Bordered by tall pines and featuring red brick pillars inlaid with local flint, the new store at Thetford
  makes attractive scenery for motorists passing on the busy A11 road which links Norwich and London.
  Emily...

• THETFORD CUSTOMERS CLOCK NEW ADVERTISING
  09

  THETFORD CUSTOMERS CLOCK NEW ADVERTISING
  Stills from the animated TV ad. Time to find good
  food that costs less.
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  Sainsbury's.
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  The advertising department has devised a
  timely introduction to...

• Trish tends her career in a growth industry
  10

  JUST THE JOB Trish tends her career
  in a growth industry. Spring is the season
  when Homebase's
  garden centres are at
  their busiest. Manager
  of the garden centre at
  Kensington, Trish
  Stutchbury, catches
  her breath, then...

• 1991 JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
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  1991 JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
  CATEGORIES
  Black and white:
  Tone and Texture
  This is a category which can be
  tackled to great effect in black and
  white. Landscapes, still life arrangements
  and portraits can all...

• MARK KEEPS AN EYE ON THE STARS
  13

  MARK KEEPS AN EYE ON THE STARS
  With the Wimbledon tennis
  championships just around the
  corner, The Journal thought the
  time was right to serve up some
  winning shots of a few of the aces
  from one of the world's...

• A WEEK ON THE WATER
  14

  A WEEK ON THE WATER
  Hull's Links donation of
  £150 to Francis Askew
  Primary School enabled
  the children to take to
  the water. Teachers took
  the children on a week
  long canal trip. Hull manager, Peter Wesson, presents the...

• INVITATION TO SPLASH OUT
  14

  INVITATION TO SPLASH OUT
  JS staff have been known to paint the town red, but
  now they are invited to paint the woodlands orange.
  Andrew Sage, grocery section manager at
  Leatherhead, is organising a day of Paintball games
  at...

• THEIR CUP RUNNETH OVER
  14

  THEIR CUP RUNNETH OVER
  'We won the cup' sing four members of staff from
  Huddersfield. Left to right are: Joyce Noble,
  Lynne Hellawell, Monica Richardson and Kath
  Welsh, winners of the silver cup for raising the...

• A FAMILIAR FACE TURNS OUT TO BE FAMILY
  15

  A FAMILIAR FACE TURNS OUT TO BE FAMILY
  When Lilian Tl foods replenishment, a few months ago, she noticed
  that Selina James, dry goods reduction controller at
  the store, bore a remarkable...

• Apologies
  15

  Apologies to Sandra
  Smith, BPM at Luton.
  Sandra, who was successful
  in the squash
  tournament held as part
  of the JS sports day,
  was wrongly described
  as BPM, Bramingham
  Park, in the last Journal.

• THIRD TIME LUCKY SERVICE DESK
  15

  THIRD TIME LUCKY SERVICE DESK
  Good service to their goal scorers helped the Service
  Desk football team to a 3-2 victory over Redhill
  store's team in the DJ Clapham Cup Final played at
  Selhurst Park on April 8. After being 2-1...

• WOODHALL FARM IS FOOTBALL CRAZY
  15

  WOODHALL FARM IS FOOTBALL CRAZY
  The company is well aware of the Tesco challenge and
  no store is more aware of our nearest rival's capability
  than Woodhall Farm. But we are talking football
  skills.
  Tesco's Berkhamstead team...

• BADGER FARM'S SPORTING LIFE
  16

  BADGER FARM'S SPORTING LIFE
  John Hammond, store manager at Badger Farm,
  has got some sporting heroes at his branch that he
  thinks the rest of us should know about.
  Firstly he has Vinee Hawkins (left of pic), who
  was the...

• CAPTION YOUR WAY TO A PRIZE
  16

  CAPTION YOUR WAY TO A PRIZE
  In the match between Charlton
  Athletic and Newcastle United played
  at Selhurst Park on April 27, the
  Geordie side's winger fell head over
  heels for Homebase.
  Although the Charlton players
  thought...

• KNOCKOUT FUN AT THORPE PARK
  16

  KNOCKOUT FUN AT THORPE PARK
  The South East branch of the National Grocers'
  Benevolent Fund held its Family Fun Day at Thorpe
  Park on May 12.
  The main event of the day was the It's A Knockout
  competition comprising games...

• A TOUCH OF EASTERN MAGIC
  17

  A TOUCH OF EASTERN MAGIC
  Rain failed to dampen the spirits of more than 1,000
  Eastern area fun-seekers who descended upon
  Kessingland Hohday Centre for the first bank hoUday
  in May.
  Competitions included It's a Knockout (won...

• A'WIGHT AT THE BACK?
  17

  A'WIGHT AT THE BACK?
  Are you lively and uninhibited? If so you could find
  yourself on television. London Weekend Television is
  looking for people to take part in a brand new entertainment
  programme starring Michael...

• APPOINTMENTS
  18

  APPOINTMENTS
  NIGEL BACON from manager,
  Kingston, to manager, Hampton.
  FRANK BISHOP from manager,
  Islington, to manager, Alperton
  for the opening. MICHAEL
  BOCOCK from senior deputy
  manager, Christchurch, to...

• LONG SERVICE
  18

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 25 years' service are:
  JANE CAULFIELD, bakery counter
  assistant. Lords Hill. BRIGITTE
  CHAMBERS, general assistant,
  Basildon Savacentre. IAN
  CHIPPINGTON, meat costing...

• RETIREMENTS
  18

  RETIREMENTS
  HARRY HUNT, meat manager,
  Brentwood (37 years). IRIS BIRD,
  butcher, Harlow (29 years).
  BARBARA WELCH, supermarket
  assistant, Tottenham (24 years).
  AUDREY BENTLEY, restaurant
  assistant, Dunstable...

• WEDDINGS
  18

  WEDDINGS
  Engineering and public relations
  came together on April 11 when
  VERONICA HOADLEY, senior manager's
  secretary in property PR,
  and ROGER BORER, senior manager,
  refrigeration and mechanical
  design, married at...

• OBITUARY
  19

  OBITUARY
  (Length of service is sliown in
  braciiets)
  ALAN BARCLAY, store warehouse
  assistant, Buntingford depot,
  died suddenly on February 17,
  aged 64 (16 years). KARL EYERS,
  food safety officer, Coldhams
  Lane, died...

• Prize crossword
  19

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  find yourself a quiet spot and a pen, then get
  cracking on our prize crossword.
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• AMERICANS HAVE BEEN ON TO A shaws THING FOR 131 YEARS
  20

  ARCHIVES
  The second Shaw's store 583
  Congress Street, Portland, Maine.
  AMERICANS HAVE BEEN
  ON TO A shaws
  THING FOR 131 YEARS
  The new Shaw's
  own label range. Sharp-eyed viewers of the Year End Video will
  remember seeing...

• A TASTE FOR THE EXOTIC
  22

  A TASTE FOR THE EXOTIC
  Babaco? Feijoa? not the names of far away islands, but
  two of the wide JS exotic fruit range from all over South
  America and the Caribbean. All deliciously different they
  can be used to add colour and...

• BONBONS FROM BELGIUM
  22

  BONBONS FROM BELGIUM
  The best thing to come out of Belgium since Hercule Poirot
  JS Belgian Chocolates. The milk, plain and white chocolates
  are beautifully wrapped to make an ideal gift, or treat.
  Available in selected stores...

• CHICKEN DISH IS BRITAIN'S BEST
  22

  CHICKEN DISH IS BRITAIN'S BEST
  Chicken Tawa Masala, this year's
  winning dish in the annual Young
  Cook of Britain competition, was
  created by 12 year old Gill Nutter.
  Produced as a ready meal,
  Chicken Tawa Masala is...

• A SLICE OF AMERICAN LIFE
  23

  A SLICE OF AMERICAN LIFE
  The new JS frozen cakes are welcome visitors from across
  the Atlantic. There are three American style varieties:
  Alabama Soft Rock Pie, a rich creamy chocolate mousse
  on a digestive biscuit base,...

• GOOD FOR YOUR WOOD
  23

  GOOD FOR YOUR WOOD
  A new range of Homebase varnish and woodstain products
  will enhance both interiors and exteriors.
  Interior clear and coloured varnish is a durable coating
  that protects and decorates all interior wood,...

• NINERS TIMES NINE
  23

  NINERS TIMES NINE
  JS Double Miners have proved so popular in store that the
  range has been extended. There are nine new varieties.
  The Deep Sea Miner pack features two breaded cod fillet
  steaks; the Double Bacon Miner features...

• THE ALTERNATIVE SANDWICH
  23

  THE ALTERNATIVE SANDWICH
  Exotic alternatives to the sandwich are JS Fresh Filled
  Pittas in two tempting varieties: Chicken Tikka, with mango
  chutney, yogurt and mayonnaise, or Mexican Style
  Chicken, with red and green peppers,...

• Looking for Birdies at the Belfry
  24

  Looking for Birdies at the Belfry
  Best golfer in the morning
  round on the Derby course,
  Peter Walker, plays
  a sweeping shot
  from the bunker.
  Most of the company's gifted golfers were in action at
  the Belfry on Bank Holiday...