Papers relating to Sainsbury's wholesale and export businesses.
This includes price lists for the company's sales of products to the catering trade such as hotels and restaurants. Various branches offered a wholesale service (sometimes referred to as the hotel and restaurant department). The company's catering and wholesale trade department ceased operation in 1959 (JS Journal Mar 1978 p24).
It also includes packaging and photographs relating to exports of Sainsbury's own brand products to other countries. The company's 'export project' was launched in circa 1978, with sales initially to Bahrain through an agent (JS Journal Dec 1978, p2) and international sales continued into the 1980s.
Wholesale
Papers relating to Sainsbury's wholesale and export businesses.
This includes price lists for the company's sales of products to the catering trade such as hotels and restaurants. Various branches offered a wholesale service (sometimes referred to as the hotel and restaurant department). The...
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This includes price lists for the company's sales of products to the catering trade such as hotels and restaurants. Various branches offered a wholesale service (sometimes referred to as the hotel and restaurant department). The...
- Ref. No: SA/WHO
- Date: 1890s-1980s
- Level: SubFonds
- Extent: 2 boxes
- Access: Open
Wholesale advertising and product promotion
1890s-1950sMaterials documenting the promotion of Sainsbury's Wholesale service, including advertisements and price lists. At one stage there was a specific department dedicated to serving the wholesale market;...
SA/WHO/1
Material relating to international sales of own brand products
1980sLabelling, packaging and photographs relating to Sainsbury's selling own-brand products in other countries including the Middle East and Japan.
SA/WHO/2
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