'JS Journal', April 1983

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 3
  Property
  Page 4-5
  Branch opening—Farnham
  Page 6-7
  Homebase opening—Watford
  Page 8-9
  Business news
  Page 10-15
  A pull-out guide to JS's senior management
  Page 16-18
  New products
  Page 18-19
  Hobbies
  Page 20,...

• Executive Club
  02

  Executive Club
  A TALK FROM Minister of Agriculture,
  Fisheries and Food, the Rt Hon Peter
  Walker, brought the latest season of
  Sainsbury's Executive Club to a successful
  close.
  Peter Walker spoke of his...

• Festival of Choirs
  02

  SAINSBURY'S Festival of Choirs
  TWENTY OF BRITAIN'S leading youth
  and adult choirs have been selected for
  the second Sainsbury's Festival of Choirs,
  which takes place at the Royal Albert
  Hall on Saturday April 16.
  There is in...

• New face
  02

  AN ADDITION to the Journal team this
  month is Yvonne Burke, who joins as
  assistant editor. „
  Yvonne, 24, has moved to Blackfriars
  from the West End of London, where she
  was assistant editor of Selfridges' house
  magazine—...

• Property
  03

  PROPERTY
  JS IS SEEKING planning consent for a
  two-storey extension and alterations to
  the existing building which will almost
  double the retail sales area of Wilmslow
  branch.
  The plan to provide additional sales
  and storage...

• Retailer of the month
  03

  Retailer of the month
  SAINSBURY'S have been voted retailer
  of the month by Super Marketing magazine.
  'In one month Sainsbury's was credited
  with three distinctions: a survey
  recognised that its customers are the
  most...

• Branch opening—Farnham
  04

  PERFECT SPRING weather accompanied
  the opening of JS's new store in
  South Street, Farnham on Tuesday, February
  22.
  An architecturally impressive building
  which complements the adjacent
  conservation area (including the...

• Homebase opening—Watford
  06

  FEBRUARY 28, three days before
  Homebases' second birthday, the seventh
  store was opened at 114 St Albans Road,
  Watford, Hertfordshire, and provided
  the most successful opening to date!
  The total indoor and outdoor sales
  area...

• Alter ego
  08

  Alter ego
  THE ONCE elusive British cheese, Lymeswold,
  is to be rechristened Westminster
  Blue for its launch on the international
  market later this year. The new name, for export only, has been
  chosen by the Milk Marketing...

• Food from Britain
  08

  Food from Britain
  FOOD FROM BRITAIN, the new central
  marketing and promotional body for British
  food, drink, confectionery and agricultural
  and horticultural produce, came into
  operation on March 23.
  With a-completion date...

• International food exhibition
  08

  International food exhibition
  MORE THAN 900 exhibitors filled Olympia
  in London for the recent International Food
  Exhibition. A dazzling variety of stands was
  manned by both food manufacturers and
  importers, many of whom were...

• Mainstop sales
  08

  Mainstop sales
  IF YOU HAVE ever fancied owning a
  supermarket, now is your chance—perhaps
  you can arrange a loan from your bank
  manager and buy a Mainstop store!
  The great Mainstop sale continues-it is
  understood that 16 of...

• More milk innovations
  08

  More milk innovations
  CHANGES and innovations seem to be
  continually taking place on the milk front!
  Nearly 850,000 people have recently
  signed a petition to save the British pinta.
  Milkmen, backed by MP's and...

• Plastic scotch
  08

  Plastic scotch
  TRANSATLANTIC airline passengers will
  soon be guinea pigs for the first scotch
  whisky to be packed in plastic bottles!
  One of Scottish and Newcastle Breweries'
  main brands, MacKinlay's Old Scotch, is to
  go...

• Wet fish
  08

  Wet fish
  THE NEWLY opened Bromley-by-Bow
  Tesco features a wet fish counter. However,
  the company is reported to be abandoning
  such a concept for future openings. Instead
  Tesco will utilise the gas-flushed packs now
  being...

• Wine merit
  08

  Wine merit
  TESCO'S development effort on table wines
  has borne some fruit. The trade journal
  Wine & Spirit recently gave Tesco a design
  award for outstanding merit for the new
  labels for its own wine range.

• Bejam
  09

  LAST MONTH a look was taken at frozen
  food retailing—to follow, an examination of
  Bejam, a company which has a growth
  record as remarkable as that of JS.
  The beginnings of Bejam stem from a trip
  by its founder, John...

• Who's boss?
  09

  Who's boss?
  A NEW SURVEY, conducted by Research
  Surveys of Great Britain on behalf of IPC
  magazines, indicates that women are fast
  becoming the decision-makers when it
  comes to buying drink at supermarket
  off-licences.
  In...

• Sainsbury's Senior Managers' Conference
  10

  SAINSBURY'S Senior Managers' Conference
  —a pull out guide to JS's senior management- Senior Managers' Conference- Eastbourne '83 Whilst every effort has been
  made to ensure that this guide
  is as accurate and complete...

• Home remedies
  16

  Home remedies
  RELIEF is at hand for the two most
  nagging ailments—indigestion and the
  common sore throat/cough.
  Sainsbury's first own-label Indigestion
  Tablets, available in packs of 30, sell for
  38p.
  For effective relief...

• New wine
  16

  New wine
  GET YOUR DRINKING caps on and
  open a bottle of Crozes-Hermitage
  (Appellation Controlee), a new ownlabel
  French wine now available from JS.
  This full bodied red wine comes from
  the vineyards around Tain, in...

• Pine Fresh
  16

  Pine Fresh
  WHAT'S GREEN OUTSIDE, strong
  inside and bowls you over? Sainsbury's
  new Pine Fresh Liquid Lavatory cleaner!
  Priced at 32p and available in all
  branches, Pine Fresh is specially designed
  to help remove all...

• The Mexican way
  16

  The Mexican way
  TORTILLAS, beans, cheese, avocado
  pears and minced meat are a few of the
  popular Mexican ingredients put to
  varied use in Sainsbury's latest colour
  cookbook— Cooking the Mexican Way
  by Lourdes Nichols.
  In...

• Clean, fresh breath
  17

  Clean, fresh breath
  GARGLE AWAY the night before with a
  little help from Sainsbury's.
  New Spearmint Antiseptic Mouthwash,
  designed to deodorize and leave
  your breath tingling, is now available in
  an exciting blue colour at...

• Good morning
  17

  Good morning
  GIVE THE FAMILY all the moral fibre
  it needs with Sainsbury's new own-label
  Sultana Bran-wheat flakes with 30 per
  cent bran and sultanas.
  Dietary fibre or roughage, found in
  fruit and vegetables and whole...

• Loin steak
  17

  Loin steak
  SAINSBURY'S own-label Premium
  Tendersweet Loin Steak has recently
  been launched by the bacon buying
  department for only £2.18 (lib).
  Available in packs of four, each steak,
  whether fried or grilled promises to...

• Pizza pie
  17

  Pizza pie
  THE POPULARITY of pizzas in this
  country has grown beyond prediction.
  JS's new own-label Cheese, Tomato and
  Mushroom Pizza is the latest indication
  of this.
  Joining the other two varieties—cheese
  and tomato, and...

• Saucy
  17

  Saucy
  MATCH SAINSBURY'S re-designed
  Cheese, Onion, Parsley and White Sauce
  Mixes to the meal of your choice.
  Half-a-pint of milk and a few minutes
  to spare is all that is required to top off
  any gourmet creation.
  Available...

• Do the locomotion
  18

  'IT'S NOT A LOT of hot steam,'
  commented Ken Evans, from the hygiene
  department at Buntingford depot,
  referring to his vintage model railway
  collection which has fascinated him for
  the last 30 years.
  His collection, perhaps...

• Essential pet-care
  18

  Essential pet-care
  DOES YOUR PET bark or miaow? If
  either, or both (!), Owning dogs and cats,
  a new booklet written exclusively for
  Sainsbury's by a practising veterinary
  surgeon, is for you.
  The author's many years of...

• Full of beans
  18

  Full of beans
  JS COFFEE lovers will be full of beans
  when they hear about the new own-label
  vacuum packed Filter Coffee now available
  at 76 branches.
  Packed and sealed in foil, all the air has
  been drawn out of the coffee...

• Perfect duo
  18

  Perfect duo
  A TISSUE, a tissue we all fall down!
  Sainsbury's Duo 100 tissues (41p), in
  rose and pink, and coffee and peach
  colours, sell in two attractively designed
  boxes guaranteed to cheer up any room.
  They're strong but...

• Basenjis is best!
  20

  Basenjis is best!
  SYD SMITH'S silent dogs are really
  worth shouting about. Director's
  chauffeur, Syd, appeared in the Journal
  last March when three of his four Basenjis
  (a barkless breed from Africa) qualified
  for Crufts....

• News in brief—a round up of activities companywide
  20

  FOR THE SECOND year running,
  Walsall ladies have stolen the show in the
  towns Pancake Race, by coming first.
  The team of five ladies were sponsored
  by the branch and a total of £26 was
  collected in aid of the St...

• Wedding bell blues
  20

  Wedding bell blues
  MR AND MRS ASPI M BAJINA request
  the pleasure of the company of Mr and
  Mrs Richard Davies and his family and all
  the staff at Sainsbury's at the wedding
  ceremony of their daughter Kermin...

• Battle of the flights
  21

  Battle of the flights
  THE FINALS of the first ever Woking
  area darts championship saw Exeter
  branch emerge with flying colours after a
  challenging game against Christchurch,
  on November 27.
  At the start of the day's play,...

• Bouncing baby
  21

  Bouncing baby
  AT SIX WEEKS old and weighing in at
  1 lib 6oz, Christopher William Page gives
  true meaning to the phrase 'bouncing
  baby boy'.
  Christopher's birth on January 27
  (birthweight 81b 2oz) coincided with...

• In memoriam
  21

  In memoriam
  A SHORT BOOK OF VERSE by
  Margaret Venables, late wife of Emrys
  Venables, reception manager at Pitsea, is
  at present on sale at the branch and other
  stores in Romford area in aid of cancer
  research.
  Each booklet...

• Retirement in style
  21

  Retirement in style
  BETTY McCAUSLAND, supermarket
  assistant at West Wickham, Rolls-Royced
  all the way home on February 17 to
  celebrate her retirement from JS.
  She stepped out of the branch at the
  end of her busy last day and...

• APPOINTMENTS
  22

  APPOINTMENTS
  N Bacon, formerly manager of New
  Maiden, has been appointed manager of
  Chelsea.
  R Bradford, formerly deputy manager
  of Fulham, has been appointed manager
  of New Maiden.
  C Gaffan, formerly deputy manager...

• LONG SERVICE
  22

  LONG SERVICE
  Mary Venn, office manager at Nuneaton,
  has completed 40 years' service with JS.
  She began her career with the company
  at the old Trinity Street branch, Coventry,
  as a clerk. In 1964 Mary transferred to the
  new...

• RETIREMENTS
  22

  RETIREMENTS
  George Blackmore, a non-perishable
  clerk at Charlton depot, has retired after
  32 years' service at JS.
  He joined the company at Charlton as
  a driver and 16 years later became a
  traffic controller. In 1969 George...

• Feedback
  23

  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the editor
  Vouchers or
  cash?
  From: Enid Hine, supermarket assistant,
  Blackpoie.
  Although appreciating the bonus paid at
  Christmas, would it not be possible for
  staff to...

• OBITUARY
  23

  OBITUARY
  George Burrows, supervisor in advertising
  stores, Blackfriars, died on January
  24, aged 48.
  He had been with the company since
  1975.
  Anthony Groodrein, customer service
  assistant at Dagenham, died on January
  9,...

• Archives
  24

  ARCHIVES
  PICTURE JS's branch at 9-11 London
  Road, Croydon, on a sunny Sunday
  morning early this century. The delivery
  bicycles and horse vans crowded outside
  the shop testify to a busy morning's
  trading. Next door, a smaller...