'JS Journal', January 1984

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• Arts award for 'Images'
  02

  Arts award for 'Images'
  IN THE 1983 Business Sponsorship of the
  Arts Awards organised by ABSA and the
  Daily Telegraph, Sainsbury's won an award
  for The Best Single Event.
  The award was presented in London
  recently to Sir...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2
  News
  Page 3
  Architect awards
  Page 4-5
  Branch opening -Halifax
  Page 6-7
  Homebase opening— Branksome
  Page 8-9
  New products
  Page 9
  News from the home economics department
  Page 10-11
  Business news
  Page 12-14
  How pasta is...

• JS's investment in Shaw's
  02

  FOLLOWING the announcement of JS's
  investment in Shaw's, the American food
  chain, three visitors from Shaw's spent a
  week in Britain learning more about JS.
  Assistant managing director, Peter
  Davis (second from left), is...

• Senior management appointments
  02

  Senior management appointments
  Bob Cooper
  Michael Rosen Derrick Foster BOB COOPER, presently head of grocery III
  has been appointed departmental director,
  bakery and delicatessen, with.effect from
  March 1984.
  MICHAEL ROSEN...

• Awards for JS Architecture
  03

  Awards for JS Architecture
  JS has been building on its
  already solid reputation for first
  class architecture. The company
  has recently received no less
  than four awards in appreciation
  of stores in Birkenhead,
  Hornchurch,...

• Branch opening—Halifax
  04

  SAINSBURY'S latest West Yorkshire store
  has opened in Halifax. It joins the Huddersfield,
  Leeds and Bradford stores, already
  popular in the area.
  With 24,285 sq ft of sales area, the building
  is largely single storey and...

• Homebase opening—Branksome
  06

  NOT ONE but hundreds of Christmas trees
  were sold at Branksome Homebase, house
  and garden centre on December 5—opening
  day.
  Situated on a busy roundabout, five
  minutes from the local railway station, the
  new Homebase...

• Crumbs!
  08

  Crumbs!
  THOSE WHO like their munches to be
  scrunchy will crunch with delight at the latest
  JS biscuit lines.
  Sainsbury's Treacle Crunch Creams are a
  double delicacy. Each biscuit consists of
  treacle flavoured cream...

• Do the continental
  08

  Do the continental
  MAKE luxury cooking easy—open one of
  the new ready meals from JS.
  There's something fishy going on with
  Plaice Bonne Femme, consisting of rolled
  plaice fillets with prawns and mushrooms in a
  wine and...

• Fine wine
  08

  Fine wine
  A TOAST to the New Year! Try a taste of the
  latest offerings from JS.
  With Vin Blanc de France Doux, you have
  the best possible way to say cheers!
  A sweet white table wine, this extends the
  JS Vin de France range...

• Lotta bubble
  08

  Lotta bubble
  ADD FIZZ to hogmanay celebrations with
  Dry Ginger Ale, new from JS.
  Although delicious on its own, why not try
  a new combination? Mix the ginger ale with
  vodka or orange juice—even apple juice, for
  a new taste...

• Nutty Hogmanay
  08

  Nutty Hogmanay
  MAKE A resolution to go nutty in the New
  Year with the two latest assortments of nuts to
  be bagged by JS. At 67p (150g), Sainsbury's Roasted
  Americano Mixed Nuts are really a lucky dip
  in disguise. Will you...

• Making sense of the senses
  09

  Making sense of the senses
  Shona Robertson (left) and Wendy Godfrey.
  When the British Standards Institution decided to publish a booklet on
  sensory appraisal it looked for a specialist with impeccable standards.
  Its eyes...

• Sweet dreams are made of this
  09

  Sweet dreams are made of this
  TO ROUND off any meal, pick a pud from
  the vast selection included in 'Sweet Dreams',
  the eighth book written specially for
  Sainsbury's by Josceline Dimbleby.
  Whatever your preference, at least...

• And a little bit more
  10

  And a little bit more
  SAFEWAY OPENED eight new stores to bring
  its year-end tally to 104 stores with 1.4 million
  square feet of sales area. Having been pipped at
  the post in the race to get 100 or so Key Market
  stores,...

• Combined efforts
  10

  Combined efforts
  WHICH brings us on to Argyll Group, the newly
  formed combination of Argyll Foods and
  Amalgamated Distilled Products, who announced
  figures for the six months to September
  30, 1983. Because of the merger,...

• Family food
  10

  Family food
  THAT PECULIAR unit of measurement-the
  average family (with 2.2 children) —now spends
  £34.64 on food each week. The latest National
  Food Survey showed that expenditure increased
  in the third quarter of 1983 by...

• Fresh faced M&S
  10

  Fresh faced M&S
  MARKS AND SPENCER will be fielding a
  younger team of directors in the future. The M&S
  board currently has an average age of 54 but at
  July's AGM Lord Sieff, 70, will swop his chairmanship
  for a presidency....

• Growing Kwik-ly
  10

  Growing Kwik-ly
  KWIK SAVE are well down the big league of food
  retailers except when it comes to growth. Their
  results for the year ended August 1983 show
  that their growth rate is slowing up a bit, but
  remains satisfactory...

• Lift for Lennons
  10

  Lift for Lennons
  THE SUPERMARKET chain which operates in
  the hard-hit Merseyside area has pulled itself up
  by its bootstraps. Lennons managed a £600,000
  profit in its first half year to October 26 against a
  £135,000 loss...

• Tesco tally
  10

  Tesco tally
  JUST three weeks after the JS announcement
  of half-year figures, Tesco reported on their six
  months to mid-August.
  Sales rose 14 per cent to £1,203 million; the
  volume increase was 8.5 per cent of which...

• Tweedle Dum Tweedle ...
  10

  Tweedle Dum Tweedle ...
  DEE CORPORATION, better known in its
  previous reincarnation as Linfood Holdings,
  announced some sparkling figures for the six
  months to mid-November. Pre-tax profits soared
  from £6.9 million to £9.2...

• The business news review of 1983
  11

  The business news review of 1983
  Now that the last flesh has been
  stripped from the turkey
  carcase, it seems an appropriate
  moment to ruminate on what
  has and has not happened over
  the last twelve months.
  The Milk Marketing...

• Unravelling the pasta story
  12

  HOW ITS MADE
  A charming Italian legend has attributed the discovery
  of the art of pasta making to the carelessness
  of a Chinese maiden some 6,000 years ago. This month
  the Journal set out to blaze the Sainsbury's...

• Elevated conversation
  14

  Elevated conversation
  LET ME introduce myself, I'm
  one of the lifts at Stamford
  House, the one on your left as
  you come in. I bet you've never
  stopped to think about me.
  As a New Year treat the Journal
  has allowed me to...

• Christmas can be such a drag
  15

  Christmas can be such a drag
  THE GUESTS arrived in good time on an
  evening near to Christmas, resplendently
  dressed and chauffeur driven. They were led
  ceremoniously to the banqueting room where
  their eyes met a wondrous...

• I wish it could be Christmas every day
  15

  I wish it could be Christmas every day
  ARE YOU sitting comfortably? Then we'll
  begin.
  Once upon a time 121 children visited the
  magical world of Stamford House to see if
  their wish would be granted. That wish was
  for every...

• Who trips to Amsterdam?
  16

  Who trips to Amsterdam?
  Six thirty and already dark.
  Small groups of people are
  gathering into a huddle on
  Stamford Street, Blackfriars,
  and the pavement is cluttered
  with an odd assortment of
  luggage.
  TWO great eyes of...

• Miss JS 1984
  17

  Forcing that nervous grimace into a smile,
  shifting from foot to foot and blinking into the
  pitch black of the audience. A hushed silence
  before the moment of truth, a drum roll and... jubilation! The beauty queen is...

• £1,000 draw
  18

  £1,000 draw
  A PROSPEROUS new year. That's what
  Susan Williams, supermarket assistant at
  Lewisharn branch, is looking forward to. She
  was the winner of the SSA's £1,000 draw
  which took place on December 1.
  District manager,...

• Chip off the old block
  18

  Chip off the old block
  Brian Else, deputy manager.
  HOMEBASE store management proved
  themselves to be budding chippies on
  November 8 during a course on power tool
  accessories in woodworking.
  To their own surprise many course...

• Dynamic duo
  18

  Ritchie (above) and John.
  Dynamic duo
  HIGH STREET crooks fled from Sainsbury's
  Beckenham on Sunday, November 8, after
  their intended raid on the store was disturbed
  by two young sleuths! —Ritchie Paterson
  and John...

• Friends in need
  18

  Friends in need
  STAFF deserved all the praise they received
  for their efforts to help multiple sclerosis
  sufferer, Jane Blackwell, when she fell ill
  during her weekly shopping trip at Oxford
  branch on November 10.
  'They were...

• Hitting home for charity
  18

  Hitting home for charity
  NO PUNCHES were pulled when £6,000 was
  raised for charity on November 2 at the
  SavaCentre dinner and boxing evening, held
  in Droitwich.
  The brainchild of Mike Ellis, director of
  Oldbury SavaCentre,...

• What a pane!
  18

  What a pane!
  THE SKILLS of DIY training at Homebase,
  are not only useful in customer assistance, it
  would seem.
  Several unsuccessful attempts by Peter
  Grainger to cut class for ;i window al home,
  led him to call his wife...

• Awards for JS engineering trainees
  19

  The trainees' proud parents watched their
  sons receive the awards.
  Awards for JS
  engineering trainees
  TWO JS TRAINEES have received their just
  rewards for last year's hard work.
  Bob Jones, apprentice plant...

• Calling all kids
  19

  ALL THOSE JS
  children who received
  pencils, pens
  or paints for Christmas
  have no excuse
  not to enter the
  SSA/JS Journal
  Children's Competition.
  Don't miss
  the chance to win
  a PADDINGTON
  BEAR, an ELECTRONIC GAME or...

• Having a capital time in Lapland
  19

  Having a capital time in Lapland
  SANTA HAD a tension free Christmas this
  year after receiving reassurance from eightyear-
  old Marselene Gallivan (right) that
  should he get under the affluence of inkahol
  or fall sick she would...

• It was quite a trek...
  20

  It was quite a trek...
  MARGARET COOPER took a sensible
  approach when preparing for her holiday of a
  lifetime—she took up tap dancing!
  Margaret, BPO at Magdalen Street,
  Norwich, recently returned from the holiday
  which put...

• A 'Potters Bar paratrooper' retires
  21

  A 'Potters Bar paratrooper' retires
  THE 'RED BOOK' treatment was the last
  thing Peter Purslow, manager at Walsall,
  expected when he retired from JS on
  December 24 after 46 years. He hoped it
  would be a quiet affair, instead...

• APPOINTMENTS
  22

  APPOINTMENTS
  G Becker, formerly manager of Dartford, has
  been appointed manager of Dover.
  A Greeves, formerly spare manager, has
  been appointed manager of Nuneaton.
  P Isaac, formerly deputy manager of
  Bexleyheath, has been...

• LONG SERVICE
  22

  LONG SERVICE
  John Berry, fresh meat manager at
  Walthamstow, has completed 25 years' service
  with JS.
  He began his career with the company in
  the grocery department at South Harrow, and
  two years later transferred to Ilford...

• OBITUARY
  22

  OBITUARY
  Peter Carter, chauffeur at Blackfriars, died on
  November 17, aged 53.
  He had been with the company for four
  months.
  Betty Hartwell, evening supermarket assistant
  at Bedford, died after a long illness
  on November 4,...

• RETIREMENTS
  22

  RETIREMENTS
  Michael Fowler, manager at Bridgwater, has
  retired after 44 years' service with JS.
  He began his career with the company at
  Northampton. After working in several
  branches including Chapel Market, Walsall
  and...

• Feedback
  23

  FEEDBACK
  Letters are welcome
  and should "be
  addressed to the editor
  Saucy
  From: Catherine Grant, customer at Croydon
  branch.
  After doing my weekly shopping at
  Sainsbury's, I decided to give my two sons an
  exotic tea...

• Days of future past
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Days
  THE NEW year is traditionally a time for
  taking stock and looking forward to the
  future. This new year has particular
  significance because it was visualised so
  dreadfully by George Orwell back in 1949
  when he...