'JS Journal', July 1973

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• Contents Page
  01

  Fire sweeps In at the kill Back to the good old
  Basingstoke depot bad old days
  Page 8 Pages 6-7 Page 5
  Depots halted by New wine 'just Common Market
  engineers' strike cropped up5 scare that never was
  Page 8 Page 2 Page 3

• Flotation price values JS at £117m
  01

  Flotation price values JS at £117m The news members of the
  public and employees had
  been waiting for broke on
  Tuesday July 3 when, at 4.30
  in the afternoon, an
  announcement went up on
  notice boards all over the
  company...

• Going public - sorting out the jargon
  01

  Going public - sorting out the jargon The announcement that
  JS was going public brought
  a lot of new words, most of
  them normally bandied about
  only in financial circles, onto
  everybody's lips.
  Here, for those not...

• Percy is champ again
  01

  Percy is champ again Percy of Glenfarelas, JS's
  prize Aberdeen-Angus bull,
  followed his successes at
  the Royal Highland Show in
  May with top honours at the
  Royal Show, on July 3.
  Three year old Percy was
  judged to be the...

• Plenty of openings
  01

  Plenty of openings It will be a bumper time
  for branch openings in the
  four weeks from July 17.
  Five branches will be
  opened -just falling short of
  the 1969 record when six
  new branches were opened
  between November 11...

• Woolwich entertains prices Minister ces
  01

  Woolwich entertains ntertains prices Minister
  ces Woolwich branch provisions
  manager, John Saunders,
  (right) explains how a light
  pen works to Mrs Peggy
  Fenner, a junior Government
  minister, when she visited
  Woolwich branch...

• 12,000 housewives give JS thumbs up
  02

  12,000 housewives give JS thumbs up JS come top of the class for
  quality and cleanliness. This
  is the verdict of 12,000 housewives
  surveyed as part of a
  regular market research
  exercise.
  The Gordon Simmons'
  Trade Index, to...

• Geneva course for two JS stewards
  02

  Geneva course for two JS stewards JS Driver Philip Woodham
  from Buntingford depot, and
  leading warehouseman Roy
  Stratton from Basingstoke,
  flew to Geneva last month as
  members of the first group
  of British shop stewards...

• June is No 2 — and gets a tenner
  02

  June is No 2 — and gets a tenner Nineteen years old June
  Pratt, a display assistant at
  Harlow, needed lots of
  encouragement to enter the
  town's first ever 'Miss
  Harlow Stores' contest. She
  got plenty - from her...

• New wine 'just cropped up'
  02

  New wine 'just cropped up' 'A full-bodied red wine
  with plenty of guts' is how
  JS wine buyer Andrew Nunn
  describes Beaumes-de-Vehise,
  one of two French wines
  introduced this month at a
  few of the bigger...

• Painters give wall a sparkle
  02

  Painters give wall a sparkle Les Watson and Grace Spr
  paintings at present on exhibit
  gthorpe with two of their own
  a in the depot's staff canteen. Les Watson and Grace
  Springthorpe both agreed
  that the newly painted...

• Young Dave leaves to see the world
  02

  Young Dave leaves to see the world A young JS manager
  trainee has given up a promising
  career to, as he puts
  it, 'seek a challenge'. He is
  20 years old David Cousins of
  Erdington and at the end of
  June he left to go on a...

• Depot cheque helps the kids learn
  03

  Depot cheque helps the kids learn A cheque for £500 was
  presented by Buntingford
  depot manager Owen
  Thomas to the Ward Freman
  School, Buntingford, at a
  joint depot committee
  meeting held at the depot on
  July 6. The cheque,...

• Greenwich festival takes a look at Charlton
  03

  Greenwich festival takes a look at Charlton Administration officer, Alan
  Carney, (right) showing round
  some of the 13 members of
  the public who visited the
  Charlton depot on June 19.
  The visit was arranged as
  part of the...

• Holiday friendship in black and white
  03

  Holiday friendship in black and white
  ' . . . then we explored and
  found a ruined church in
  some woods . . . then we
  built a little fire and then... is
  it time to go to the beach
  now? . . .' Christine aged
  eight (right) and...

• New variety of lettuce on the way
  03

  New variety of lettuce on the way When the temperature rises
  so does the demand for all the
  crisp and cool things that go
  to make a salad. But, surprisingly,
  JS sales over the
  year show that the demand
  for some salad items,...

• The Common Market scare that never was
  03

  The Common Market scare that never was A scare that the British
  poultry industry - suppliers
  of most JS eggs and poultry -
  could have been severely
  hit by competition from
  within the EEC never materialised,
  says poultry...

• Appointments
  04

  Appointments
  R Harrison, formerly
  deputy manager at High
  Wycombe has been appointed
  manager at South
  Harrow.
  J Irestone, formerly
  reserve manager at Wandsworth
  has been appointed
  manager at West Wickham.
  L Wright,...

• Letters
  04

  Letters
  The eternal tax question From Mrs V Miller (home
  economics, Blackfriars.)
  Can someone please
  explain why, when you join
  the company, the tax
  deducted from the first
  month's salary is only one
  week's contribution?...

• Obituary
  04

  Obituary
  S Dunsworth, was a warehouseman
  at Romford from
  1964 up to the time of his
  sudden death on March 1.
  Mrs J Clayton, who had
  been a display assistant at
  Swiss Cottage since 1966,
  died on April 3 following a
  lengthy...

• Retirements
  04

  Retirements
  E Broughton, senior skilled
  tradesman, Croydon, retired
  on January 30 - nearly 50
  years' service.
  Mrs K Lavvson, chief display
  assistant, Central Croydon,
  retired on January 30
  34 years' service.
  J May, senior...

• Back to the good old bad old days
  05

  Back to the good old bad old days Good food, good wine . . . a chance to meet old friends.
  The veterans get together, reported in the last JS Journal,
  had all three, so not surprisingly once lunch was over and
  the coffee cups...

• In at the kill
  06

  in at the kill.
  . . . that's produce buyer Tony Court's hectic
  world with its last minute operations that can
  suddenly turn an ordinary produce line into a
  promotion. JS Journal's assistant editor, Eddie
  Manly, writes of a...

• Cheese store isn't the same after 47 years
  08

  Cheese store isn't the same
  after 47 years 'It's changed beyond all
  belief said 71 years old
  Mrs Winifred Squires as she
  looked around Stamford
  House one day last month.
  And it's not surprising - for
  the last time Mrs...

• Engineers' strike halts depots
  08

  Engineers' strike
  halts depots
  The engineers' strike,
  which started at Charlton
  depot on June 21 and spread
  to all other JS depots over
  a payment for time when the
  men were 'off the clock' due
  to a refusal to accept...

• Fire sweeps through Basingstoke depot
  08

  Fire sweeps through Basingstoke depot
  Fire swept through the
  packaging store at Basingstoke
  depot on June 26
  bringing production to a
  halt, i t was a miracle noone
  was hurt' said lamb
  line foreman Tony Gerrard,
  one of the...