'JS Journal', May 1974

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• 1973/4 results show an expansion-based turnover increase
  01

  1973/4 results show an expansion-based turnover increase Sales and profits last year hit
  an all-time record, reported
  the chairman John Sainsbury,
  announcing the company's
  preliminary results for the
  1973/4 financial year to...

• Contents Page
  01

  Page 2
  Letchworth store opens ahead of the rest
  Page 2
  The Fairbairns are raising the wind
  Pages 4-5
  Year end results reviewed
  Page 8
  North Londoners on a winning streak

• Now it's the girls' turn! 16 cashiers and clerks show their paces in pilot 'management' course
  01

  Now it's the girls' turn! 16 cashiers and clerks
  show their paces in pilot 'management' course A 'breakthrough' is how
  pilot course at Coventry is
  described by divisional
  training manager Ray Eccles.
  He said of the 16 chief...

• Are you ready for deciday?
  02

  Are you ready for deciday? As doubtless you will have
  read in the national press,
  from midnight on May 16
  1974 - ('deciday') the whole
  of Great Britain (except the
  Isle of Man) will be converting
  to metric time.
  From that...

• Basingstoke family raises the wind
  02

  Basingstoke family raises the wind Six-years-old Fiona Fairbairn
  was thrilled at the sound of
  the brass band playing in the
  park where her parents had
  taken her. So much was she
  taken by it that she went
  up to the bandstand...

• Laundry protest at Stamford House
  02

  Laundry protest at Stamford House
  When JS bought back the lease of a laundry at Blackfriars as
  part of a much larger site for development, Stamford House
  faced a picket line of banners. The shop was due to close on
  April 20...

• Letchworth opens ahead of the rest with a self-service 'deli'
  02

  Letchworth opens ahead of the rest
  with a self-service 'deli' Pram jam! Young customers cram into JS's youngest store, Letchworth, which opened on May 14. Letchworth branch is two
  days old.
  On Tuesday May 14 director
  David...

• The three-day week leads to flowers from the cleaner
  02

  The three-day week leads to flowers from the cleaner Many articles must have
  been written during the emergency
  about the lack of
  heating, lack of lighting and
  the train go-slow, which all
  occurred simultaneously. But
  one...

• Appointments
  03

  Appointments
  Arthur Tanner, formerly
  personnel officer at Charlton
  depot, has been appointed
  personnel manager at Charlton.
  L J Davies, formerly assistant
  manager, supply control
  non-perishables, has been
  appointed senior...

• Long service
  03

  Long service
  Congratulations to the following
  employees on receiving
  long service awards:
  40 years:
  G A Piper (Tonbridge);
  D M Priestly (Tunbridge
  Wells).
  25 years:
  P Randall (Shirley); Mrs
  D Liddiard (Wembley); D...

• More, rather than less change, is the pattern of the future, Mr JD tells the 25 Club
  03

  More, rather than less change, is the pattern of
  the future, Mr JD tells the 25 Club Seven hundred and six long
  service JS staff tucked into
  a splendid banquet in
  London's Royal Lancaster
  Hotel on April 29 on the
  occasion of...

• Obituary
  03

  Obituary
  Mrs Annie Cook, a parttime
  supply assistant at Edgware,
  collapsed and died at work on April 4. She had
  been with the company for
  six years.
  Alfred 'Jimmy' French,
  driver at Charlton depot,
  died on February 2....

• Retirements
  03

  Retirements
  K Tappenden retired on
  May 4 as branch manager at
  Seaford. He joined the company
  in 1931. He was first
  appointed to manager at
  Seaford and subsequently
  managed Portslade and Reigate,
  returning to Seaford...

• 1973/74: How it all adds up
  04

  1973/74: How it all adds up Trading results
  Last year JS took £362.1 million from selling goods in its 198 branches. That's
  22 per cent more than in the 1972/3 financial year. Just over half of the increase
  came from the 16...

• Where does the profit come from?
  06

  Where does the profit come from?
  PROFITS DEPEND
  ON INVESTMENT,
  LAST YEAR
  WE OPENED 16
  NEW
  SUPERMARKETS
  AND 4-
  EXTENSIONS TO
  EXISTING ONES...
  AND INVESTED SOME
  £/7 NULL/ON
  IN THE FUTURE OF
  THE BUSINESS
  Kx
  ; \
  THE...

• Letters
  07

  Congratulations
  From Mrs J M Green {wife
  of a recently retired veteran)
  I am writing to congratulate
  Mr M W Broomfield manager
  Camberley, for his letter
  in April 1974 'New Journal'
  or as I would prefer to call it
  a...

• News in brief
  07

  News in brief On the right tracks is the
  steam railway club at Buntingford.
  Taking to the road
  on April 21 were 60 members
  and their families.
  Their destination was
  Bewdley, Worcs, where they
  spent a happy five...

• Putting the annual results into perspective
  07

  Putting the annual results into perspective JS Journal editor Richard Gaunt talks to
  deputy chairman Simon Sainsbury about the
  year-end results and their implications for
  the business and for employees. Richard Gaunt: Do you...

• Better pensions for injury and illness
  08

  Better pensions for injury and illness Good news from the pensions
  department for all
  those who have to give up
  work because of illness or
  injury.
  Two new schemes have
  been introduced to provide
  improved ill-health...

• Grandmother Jean is the ping-pong queen
  08

  Grandmother Jean is the ping-pong queen A 54-year-old grandmother
  gave herself a birthday treat
  and walked away with three
  winner's trophies at the recent
  JS table tennis championships.
  She is Mrs Jean Torr, a
  personnel...

• North Londoners on a winning streak!
  08

  North Londoners on a winning streak! Somebody was on a winning streak at Dulwich on April 21 at
  the end of the Sunday football! It happened after the North
  London team had been presented with the Les Potter trophy for
  winning...

• Ted, MacDuff and a 100 year-old carriage win a first prize
  08

  Ted, MacDuff and a 100 year-old carriage
  win a first prize Come the weekend and JS
  driver Ted Ashton's off on
  a busman's holiday. For
  there's nothing Ted likes
  better than to go for a drive
  . . . but a drive with...