'JS Journal', February 1983

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• Advertiser of the year!
  02

  Advertiser of the year!
  A JS FIRST for '83! Campaign, the
  advertising industry's weekly publication,
  recently announced: 'Its proven
  business acumen and the wit, colour and
  simplicity of its advertising make...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4-5
  Homebase opening—Basingstoke
  Page 6-7
  New products
  Page 8-9
  Business news
  Page 10-11
  Just the Job
  Page 12-13
  Hobbies
  Page 14
  Forty year luncheon
  Page 15-17
  News in brief—a round-up of activities...

• Property
  02

  PROPERTY
  THE COMPANY has acquired a site
  earmarked for development in Chiswick.
  Plans for the 5.4 acres include a 57,000 sq
  ft supermarket, three sub-let units totalling
  around 5,700 sq ft and parking for 364
  cars.
  Oldham...

• Research award
  02

  Research award
  DR ROY SPENCER, departmental
  director of the scientific services division,
  recendy made a £7,000 grant on behalf of
  the Sainsbury Charitable Fund, to
  London's St Thomas's Hospital Medical
  School for...

• Senior management conference
  03

  Above: Heads down in the syndicates. Right: Sir John Sainsbury and
  Roy Griffiths during the question and answer session.
  Senior management conference THE THIRD senior management
  conference was held in Eastbourne on
  January 16...

• Homebase opening—Basingstoke
  04

  DESPITE CRISP winter weather on
  December 28, 1982, an almost overwhelming
  interest was shown in the
  opening of Homebase's new house and
  garden centre on Winchester Road,
  Basingstoke, Hampshire.
  It was only die fifth store to...

• Quick bite
  06

  Quick bite
  SAINSBURY'S have recently introduced
  a new range of six pre-packed Fresh
  Sandwiches which, at present, are on sale
  in five London branches and in the staff
  shop at Blackfriars.
  For a quick take-away snack at...

• Soups and starters
  06

  Soups and starters
  SOUPS & STARTERS, Sainsbury's latest
  full-colour, hardback recipe book by
  Caroline Ellwood, promises to get all
  meals off to a good start!
  Giving a wide range of tempting
  appetisers, including hors...

• Bun in the oven
  07

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• Fine wine
  07

  Fine wine
  ENJOY THE NEW year with Sainsbury's
  Monbazillac, appellation controlee, a
  new French white wine now available at
  140 branches (£2.48).
  Monbazillac is a full bodied sweet wine
  which, served chilled, is the...

• Pans and plugs
  07

  YET ANOTHER extension has been
  made to the popular JS Cookware
  range—a two in one teak-handled egg
  poacher/omelette pan.
  Manufactured from good gauge
  aluminium and heat resistant plastic,
  Sainsbury's 4-Cup Poacher is very...

• Argyll results
  08

  Argyll results
  THE ARGYLL group has almost digested
  Allied Suppliers which it purchased in June
  1982. Results for the enlarged group for the
  six months to September 25 1982 have
  recently been announced, and figures...

• JS is Tops!
  08

  JS is Tops!
  FOR THE very first time Sainsbury's has
  toppled the Co-operative movement for the
  position of Britain's biggest grocery retailer.
  The monthly figures produced by Audits of
  Great Britain (AGB) show that for the...

• Northern foods
  08

  Northern foods
  NORTHERN FOODS, a major supplier to
  both JS and Marks & Spencer, has notched
  up a 23 per cent increase in pre-tax profits
  to £41.2 million on sales of £1 billion.
  These good results benefit from the...

• Red wine!
  08

  Red wine!
  THE RUSSIANS are to launch a sales drive
  to promote their own wine in Britain!
  Wines available in the UK, a red table
  wine, Ruby of Crimea, Krim Red and White
  Sparkling, have been described by an
  expert as 'awful,...

• Roll your own
  08

  Roll your own
  TWO BIG supermarket chains are ready to
  sell own-label cigarettes!
  They want to exploit the market gap
  which is appearing between high quality
  'premium' brands and cut price 'commodity'
  cigarettes which sell...

• Trolley hold-up
  08

  Trolley hold-up
  A PLAN to round up abandoned supermarket
  trolleys by Sutton council and fine
  local traders £5 each for their return came
  unstuck—stores, including JS, initially
  refused to pay!
  But Sainsbury's, along with...

• Draught milk
  09

  Draught milk
  WHATEVER NEXT! The Milk Marketing
  Board's latest ploy is its milk in pubs
  scheme.
  After test marketing in 26 pubs in the
  Midlands, the idea is now going nationwide.
  Over the next ten months some 1,000 pubs
  will...

• Kwik save
  09

  Kwik save
  THE LIMITED-RANGE discount group,
  Kwik Save, recorded a 22 per cent increase
  in pre-tax profits for the year ended August
  28.
  Now trading out of 306 stores, each
  selling only some 1,000 lines (in comparison
  with...

• Lymeswold follow up
  09

  Lymeswold follow up
  IN THE WAKE of the overwhelmingly
  successful launch of Lymeswold, Dairy
  Crest, the marketing arm of the Milk
  Marketing Board, is to start test marketing a
  new soft cheese.
  It will initially be made with...

• Morrison & Mainstop
  09

  Morrison & Mainstop
  NORTHERN supermarketer, William
  Morrison, has bought three Mainstop
  superstores from BAT—the conglomerate
  which owned International and Mainstop.
  The three stores are at Eccles, Gainsborough
  and...

• Safeway up
  09

  Safeway up
  EVERYTHING you want from a store and a
  little bit more!'—including a healthy 27 per
  cent increase in profits. The UK Safeway
  operation recorded pre-tax profits of £17.1
  million in the year to October 2 1982....

• Standard measure
  09

  Standard measure
  BRITAIN is likely to be using a standard
  measure for a glass of wine in pubs and
  restaurants by 'about 1984', according to
  the chairman of the Wine Development
  Board.
  He was commenting on the...

• JS's home economics department
  10

  JUST THE JOB
  JS's home economics department
  December 17,1982 was a red letter day for JS's home economics department at Blackfriars. It marked the occasion of their
  1,000th published recipe! Since 1977 they have conceived ideas...

• Football crazy
  12

  Football crazy
  'TRAINING is the hardest thing to
  maintain as you progress at work'
  according to Colin Smith, deputy
  manager of the meat buying department
  at Blackfriars, who has devoted his
  leisure time to football since...

• Treading the boards
  12

  Treading the boards
  SPARKLING MEMORIES of show business
  were brought back recently to
  Kathy Denby, now a part-time supermarket
  assistant at South Woodford
  branch.
  Kathy was reminded of her days on the
  stage and screen by...

• Active retirement
  14

  Active retirement
  CHRISTMAS EVE saw the end of 43
  dedicated years of service for Cyril 'Bos'
  Bosworth, provisions manager, Edgware,
  and the beginning of what promises to be
  a very active retirement.
  Bos joined the company at...

• Forty Year Luncheon
  14

  Forty Year Luncheon
  THE SIXTH FORTY-YEAR luncheon
  was held on January 10 at the usual
  venue—the Howard Hotel, London.
  Sir John Sainsbury and four JS
  directors, accompanied by their wives,
  hosted the event which was held...

• News in brief—a round up of activities companywide
  15

  NEWS IN BRIEF
  A CHEQUE FOR £2000 was presented
  by Chris Hemsby manager of Kidderminster,
  to Don Maclean, of Crackerjack
  fame, on November 27,1982.
  The grand sum was donated by the
  Salisbury's Charitable Fund to...

• Top marks at Charlton
  15

  Top marks at Charlton
  RUNNER UP in the Trainee of the Year
  award for second year students and a
  distinction in a refrigeration mechanics
  exam were the awards granted to two
  trainees at Charlton depot at the end of
  the...

• 5-a-side success
  16

  THE FIRST season of the SSA 5-a-side
  football tournament, held at the Elephant
  and Castle Sports Centre, has come to
  an end.
  The tournament has been a great
  success and a full league and cup
  programme has been completed with...

• Bullseye!
  17

  Bullseye!
  A PROUD MUM! Pam Deller, supermarket
  assistant at Ipswich branch is the
  mother of a much publicised face of late,
  the new Embassy world professional
  darts champion, Keith Deller!
  Keith, 23, was a 66-1 outsider at...

• APPOINTMENTS
  18

  APPOINTMENTS
  D Becker, formerly manager of
  Brentwood, has been appointed manager
  of Southend.
  C Cuthill, formerly manager of
  Farnham, has been appointed manager
  of Sutton.
  T Day, formerly manager of Sutton, has
  been...

• LONG SERVICE
  18

  LONG SERVICE
  Edward 'Kitch' Kitchingham, meat
  manager at Kilburn, has completed 40
  years' service with JS.
  He began his career at 94 The Wells in
  the provisions department.
  Before joining the Royal Navy in 1946
  he...

• OBITUARY
  18

  OBITUARY
  Hazel Beckett, part-time supermarket
  assistant at Shirley, died on December 19,
  aged 52, after a long illness.
  She had been with the company for
  nearly six years.
  Joyce Brown, part-time display assistant
  at Luton...

• RETIREMENTS
  18

  RETIREMENTS
  Joseph Bunker, works engineer at
  Basingstoke depot, has retired after 26
  years' service at JS.
  He joined the company at Blackfriars
  and after six months became permanent
  night cleaner. Joseph was later...

• Christmas quiz solutions
  19

  Christmas quiz solutions
  THE ANSWERS to the Archives
  Christmas Quiz, JSJ December 1982, are
  as follows:
  1. The connection between Romford
  manual store and Lord Sainsbury is that
  the store was opened in the year of...

• Feedback
  19

  FEEDBACK
  Letters are welcome
  andshould.be
  addressed to the editor
  BEAUTIFUL
  SMILE
  From: A customer at Brighton Hill.
  Last week I had occasion to have a little
  moan about the apparent indifference of
  a pair of shop...

• Archives
  20

  ARCHIVES
  FOUND
  AT a jumble sale at an old
  people's home, this book, The Shadow of
  the Yatnen, has at first glance little to do
  with JS.
  The connection, however, is given
  away by the bookplate, for the volume
  comes from the...