'JS Journal', January 1975 and Brighton deputy managers' conference report supplement

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• Deputy managers take the lead
  01

  Management development and leadership top the bill at Brighton
  Deputy managers take the lead 'YOU ARE ALL POTENTIAL MANAGERS and
  the future success and strength of JS depends largely on
  you.' Weighty words for an after-dinner...

• Soon it's to be JS bach!
  01

  Soon it's to be JS bach!
  NEW TERRITORY will be
  opening up for JS - in Wales.
  Work will be starting in
  the summer on a new 2,000
  square metre (21,520 square
  feet) supermarket and freezer
  centre development with a
  3-storey...

• £500 refund for shoddy weekend
  02

  £500 refund for shoddy weekend BUTLINS has refunded £500
  to the SSA as compensation
  for the upset caused by the
  dirty chalets occupied by a
  number of SSA members
  who spent a weekend at the
  Barry Island camp...

• Handicapped kids get their cake and eat it
  02

  Handicapped kids get their cake and eat it CHARLTON'S CHEF, Eric
  Sieloff, baked a massive cake.
  It weighed 33 pounds, and
  contained eight pounds of
  currants, six pounds of sultanas,
  a pint of sherry,
  cherries, mixed peel and...

• Harry — the cool man of the green
  02

  Harry — the cool man of the green HARRY REEVES plays
  bowls every day. Indeed
  bowls could be said to have
  changed his life.
  'I used to be tensed-up
  and never able to relax' says
  Harry, who is canteen manager
  at Buntingford...

• Successful smilers collect their prizes
  02

  Successful smilers collect their prizes JANUARY 9 WAS A RED LETTER DAY for 10 JS
  ladies. They were the winners of the branch smiler
  competitions, and after a celebration lunch at Dulwich
  management training centre in south east...

• Chauffeur tragedy
  03

  Chauffeur tragedy
  'WE KEEP EXPECTING
  him to walk in.' The tragic
  death on Christmas eve of
  Alan Jowett, director Roy
  Griffiths' chauffeur, was so
  unexpected his colleagues say
  they still cannot believe he is
  dead.
  Alan...

• Clive
  03

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• Drive-in petrol service goes for throughput
  03

  Drive-in petrol service
  goes for throughput JS'S FIRST PETROL
  STATION opened quietly at
  lunchtime on Friday, January
  10. Why lunchtime?
  "That's when it was ready'
  says John Pinnick, head of
  textiles and hardware and
  the...

• Fifty-foot giant takes to the JS Road
  03

  Fifty-foot giant takes to the JS Road Juggernauts have finally come
  to JS. Four gigantic 50 feetlong
  lorries like this one, seen
  at Basingstoke depot, are now
  taking part in an experiment
  carrying out shuttle trips
  between...

• Jennifer's job is to keep them sweet
  03

  Jennifer's job is to keep them sweet TELFORD is to make JS
  history. It will be the first
  branch to have its own
  customer relations officer.
  Jennifer Bull has joined JS
  to take up this new position,
  and her job will...

• Sponsored marathon—and the rest of the news in brief
  03

  Sponsored marathon—and the rest of the news in brief SWIMMING, tandem riding
  and shaking hands were all
  novel ways of raising money
  at the end of last year.
  The SSA fund was low
  at Woolwich, so cashier Nora
  Tully and...

• Workers' paytime
  04

  What would your comment be if the pay
  packets and salary cheques failed to
  appear? Unprintable?
  Pay day is once a week or every four
  weeks depending which pay system you
  are on. And woe betide whoever is
  responsible if that...

• Bumps, grinds and grins at Walthamstow hop
  06

  Bumps, grinds and grins at Walthamstow hop Above: A new dance craze hit Walthamstow's Hoe Street
  branch on January 4 and is now spreading to most parts of
  Britain. Called 'the Bump', it's apparently like 'hands, knees
  and...

• Conservation job for energy watchdog
  06

  Conservation job for energy watchdog GET SWITCHED ON to
  switching off and save energy.
  It's now against the law
  to use electricity during daylight
  hours for advertising;
  and heating in shops, offices,
  factories and public...

• Distribution director says goodbye
  06

  Distribution director says goodbye GURTH HOYER MILLAR
  visited all the JS depots for
  the last time as distribution
  chief, before taking up his
  new board job looking after
  JS's property and development
  programme, and...

• Mandy is top of the depot menu
  06

  Mandy is top of the depot menu
  MANDY WATTS is a dishy
  19-year-old who works in the
  staff restaurant at Buntingford
  depot and without doubt one of
  the nicest things on the menu;
  it's no surprise therefore that
  she is the...

• Steve Cody MBE
  06

  Steve Cody MBE
  APPEARING in the New
  Year's Honours list was JS's
  Steve Cody who has been
  awarded the MBE.
  Mr Cody, a great JS
  character with an 'explosive
  way of getting things done'
  started work with JS at the
  age of 16...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  John Ellen has been appointed
  head of security for the
  company. He joined JS on
  December 16. As head of
  security Mr Ellen will be
  responsible to director Roy
  Griffiths and a member of
  senior management.
  His...

• Letters: The Chairman's thanks
  07

  Letters: The Chairman's thanks From Mr John Sainsbury,
  chairman.
  I should like to take advantage
  of the columns of the JS
  Journal to express my thanks
  to all staff for the splendid
  spirit of enthusiasm with
  which the...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  We congratulate the following
  employees on receiving
  long service awards:
  40 years:
  C H T Sanders (Basingstoke)
  Miss G E Potter (Greenford)
  LH James (Blackfriars)
  25 years:
  Miss G V Hibbard (Blackhave...

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Harry Brackenborough retired
  on January 3 after 16
  years with JS. He worked in
  the driver report centre at
  Charlton depot; although he
  trained as a baker and confectioner,
  and for 17 years
  had his own...

• New system beats the backdoor jams
  08

  New system beats the backdoor jams A BACKDOOR EXPERIMENT
  designed to reduce
  stock loss by tightening-up
  on security and documentation
  procedures has been
  introduced at Feltham
  branch.
  The branch is typical of
  many, with a...

• Roy Griffiths becomes deputy chairman and 'Robbie' Roberts joins the board
  08

  Roy Griffiths becomes deputy chairman and
  'Robbie' Roberts joins the board A NEW JOB for personnel
  director Roy Griffiths, the
  creation of another board
  director and two new departmental
  directors was announced
  on Monday,...