'JS Journal', April 1982

Keywords:
branch openings at Kidderminster, Birkenhead & Braintree (with photographs) pp.1 & 4-9;
Micheal Heseltine, Sir John Sainsbury and Timothy Sainsbury visit the Nine Elms store (with photographs), Dr David Owen MP is guest speaker at the JS Executive Club meeting (with photograph), Homebase Purley Way's first birthday p.2;
Festival of Choirs, changes to JS Pension and Death Benefits Scheme, property news- Newport, Bournemouth, Chester, Bristol, West Hull, Greengates (Bradford), Locksbottom, Lordshill, Gloucester (with photograph) p.3;
new products-Butterfly Cake Mixes, decorated toilet tissue, confectionery, Instant Hot Oats and Bran, Sainsbury's Highland Malt, West Indian Rum, Extra Thick Cut Marmalade, Ginger Preserve, red wine, white wine and cider vinegar, Groundnut Oil, Fruit Milk Drinks, Toffee Bon-Bons, Super Pizza, cooking chocolate, sandwich and nylon cooking & roasting bags, 'Chinese Cooking' by Caroline Ellwood & 'Mixer & Blender Cooking' by Carole Handslip (with photographs) pp.10-13,
Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles introduced to store edible oils (with photographs) p.14;
company wide attempts to raise money for Cancer Research (with photographs) p.15;
retirements- Ron Sewell & Ron Eveleigh (with photograph)s p.16-17;
female darts team at Doncaster (with photograph), season's fictures for the Griffin cricket section, butter versus margarine article, Good Housekeeping magazine competition winners (with photograph) p.18;
JS producing sausages for eigthy years (with photographs) p.20.

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Table of content

Contents Page

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Page 2-3
News
Page 3
Property
PAge 4-9
Branch openings—Kidderminster, Braintree, Birkenhead
Page 10-13
New products—a Spring line up
Page 14
Pioneering with PET— a packaging development
Page 15
Cancer campaign—company wide...
Executive Club

02
Executive
Club
DR DAVID OWEN MP was the special
guest speaker at the JS Executive Club
meeting on March 15 in Stamford House.
In his capacity as a founder member of
the Social Democratic Party he briefly
outlined how the...
Happy birthday

02
Happy birthday
ONE YEAR AGO a significant event took
place for JS and the world of DIY—the
opening of the first Homebase, house and
garden centre, in Purley Way Croydon.
It had been announced in October 1979
that JS was to...
Nine Elms

02
Nine Elms
MICHAEL HESELTINE, secretary of
state for the Department of the
Environment, recently paid an informal
visit to JS's Nine Elms store accompanied
by the chairman, Sir John Sainsbury and
Timothy Sainsbury, a...
Festival of choirs

03
Festival of choirs
TWENTY FIVE of the country's leading
youth and adult choirs have been selected
for the recently announced Sainsbury's
Festival of Choirs, which will take place
at the Royal Albert Hall on Bank...
Pension changes

03
Pension changes
TO IMPROVE benefits for members of
the JS Pension and Death Benefit
Scheme, which is supported by a totally
independent fund unrelated to the performance
of the company, additional
contributions are...
Property

03
NEWPORT (Gwent) borough council
has given the go-ahead to JS for the
construction of a 46,000 sq ft store. .
A new store is to open in the Hampshire
Shopping Centre in Bournemouth. The
store will have a sales area of 23,000...
Branch opening—Kidderminster

04
THE POTENTIAL that Sainsbury's has
long recognised in the town of
Kidderminster was finally realised on
February 23 when a new supermarket
opened there.
JS's long search for a suitable site has
been well rewarded. The branch...
Branch opening—Braintree

06
JS'S NEW STORE in Braintree opened at
1, Tofts Walk, on Tuesday March 9.
In spite of the morning being cold and
overcast, a queue of about 150 people
formed, eager to sample the delights of
this attractive new supermarket....
Branch opening—Birkenhead

08
THE "FLAGSHIP" of Sainsbury's in the
North West' was how manager David Cox
happily described Birkenhead branch,
which opened on March 16.
It is the first Sainsbury's store on
Merseyside and yet the good name of the
company...
New Products

10
The buyers have been busy this Spring and man
new products have bloomed on the JS shelves!
Here is a selection—see pages 12-13 for full
details. Butterflies
i TREATS FOR TEATIME, in the form
J- of crafty cakes, are easy to...
Brightest and best

14
Brightest and best
THE PIONEERING SPIRIT at JS is in
evidence again this spring. In the
packaging field one development in
particular has been heralded by the
retail industry as a significant move to
ensure a successful...
Cancer campaigns

15
Cancer campaigns
WHAT DO PRAM and bed pushing,
sponsored walks and diets, car washing
and fancy dress pub crawls all have in
common? Well, apart from a great deal of
imagination . . . they are all events set up,
company...
Keeping busy

16
Keeping busy
FROM MESSENGER at Blackfriars to
area personnel manager at Bromley area
office, was the career progression of Ron
Sewell, who retires after 43 years' service
with JS.
'I joined the company shortly after the
war...
Spreading his wings

17
Spreading his wings
Below: Ron with friends at Boscombe! RON EVELEIGH, trades assistant in the
meat department at Boscombe branch,
retires this month after more than 42
years with JS.
Ron was initially attracted to...
Bullseye

18
Bullseye
EQUALITY has taken another stride
forward and, 'the last six weeks have
been great fun!'
Doncaster branch has been the scene
of a lengthy darts competition played
among female staff, which ended last
week in...
Butter or margarine?

18
Butter or margarine?
ASK ANYBODY whether they can tell
the difference between butter and
margarine and they will insist they can!
With this in mind the JS Sensory panel
at head office conducted a test using JS
Gold Margarine...
'Owzat'

18
'Owzat' A FULL SEASON of fixtures has been
arranged by the Griffin cricket section of
the SSA for two Saturday, three Sunday
and one Wednesday evening eleven.
Membership is free to all SSA members
and the section is eager to...
Star struck

18
Star struck
A MAMMOTH shopping spree and a
night with the stars was the reward for
Rachel Hurlock for winning a Good
Housekeeping magazine competition
sponsored by JS.
Rachel, from Woodbridge in Suffolk,
had correctly put...
Feedback

19
FEEDBACK
Letters are welcome
and should "be
addressed to the editor
Many thanks
From: Eric Webster, formerly of poultry
distribution, poultry buying office
I would like to thank Malcolm Hughes,
departmental director...
LONG SERVICE

19
LONG SERVICE
Charles 'Chas' Roberts, assistant chief
cashier at Streatham office, has completed
40 years' service with the company.
He joined JS at Blackfriars in 1942, as
part of the staff department (now known
as...
OBITUARY

19
OBITUARY
WJ 'Charles' Parker, a senior systems
analyst at Streatham, died after a long illness
during a heart operation on Friday,
February 12. He had completed 44 years'
service with JS having been recruited in
the retail...
RETIREMENTS

19
RETIREMENTS
Gordon Faulkner, manager of Teddington
Freezer Centre, has retired after
37 years with the company.
He joined JS at High Street Kensington
in 1939 and after six years National Service
moved to Gloucester...
Archives

20
IN 1982, the Year of the Sausage, it is
interesting to note that JS have been
producing high quality sausages for over
80 years.
The advertisement (below) appeared
in the Midland Daily Telegraph in
1939—exhorting customers...