'JS Journal', May 1985

Table of content

• Campaign commendations
  02

  Campaign commendations
  ONCE AGAIN THE JS press
  advertising campaign has had a
  most persuasive effect upon the
  judges in Campaign magazine's
  press advertising awards. JS ads
  picked up commendations in
  three sections—best...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-5
  News
  Page 6-7
  Branch opening —Chadwell Heath
  Page 8-9
  Healthy trends—a look at developments responding to customers' search for a healthier diet
  Page 10-11
  Veterans' reunion report
  Page 12-13
  Looking into books—...

• Senior management appointments
  02

  Senior management appointments
  John O'Sullivan Bill Williams Herbert Dow Two new senior store managers have been
  appointed. They are John O'Sullivan, manager
  of Cromwell Road and Bill Williams, manager
  of Nine Elms. The...

• Homebase is best
  03

  Homebase is best
  Catford Homebase—singled out as an imaginative structure. Homebase has won the 1985 Retailer of the Year Award.
  Presented by the Hardware Trade Journal magazine on
  March 28 the award was sponsored by the...

• 'OWN LABEL' LORRIES
  03

  'OWN LABEL' LORRIES
  What has wheels, is green and has the Homebase logo inscribed
  on it? Yes, Homebase's first ever 'own label' lorry.
  Spotted at Catford branch for the first time, the new lorry is
  one of four to be used for...

• Restoration award
  03

  Restoration award
  When JS began working on the
  railroad it set the wheels in
  motion for a load of accolades
  to come steaming in.
  By restoring the old Midland
  Railway station at Bath Green
  Park as part of the development
  of...

• Degree of honour
  04

  Degree of honour
  CHAIRMAN, Sir John Sainsbury,
  is to receive an honorary degree
  of DSc (Econ) from the University
  of London.
  The University will confer the
  degree on Sir John at the Foundation
  Day Ceremony on November
  13.

• JS talks to Townswomen
  04

  JS talks to Townswomen
  JS WAS WELL represented at
  the Essex Federation Townswomen's
  Conference in February
  when Cynthia Gilett, home
  economist, spoke to 200 delegates
  from guilds around Essex. Not only did they enjoy...

• Play away
  04

  Play away
  SAINSBURY'S HAS donated a
  much needed £500 to the Yate
  Town Council Play-scheme. JS
  has recently opened a new contract
  depot in the town.
  During the past years of
  expansion, the population in Yate
  has increased...

• Property
  04

  PROPERTY
  OUTLINE planning permission
  is being sought from Enfield
  Council for a 32,000 sq ft supermarket
  in Waltham Cross. The
  development would include a
  520 space car park.
  Work is due to begin on the
  40,000 sq ft...

• Royal report
  04

  Royal report
  THE VISIT by Queen Elizabeth,
  the Queen Mother to Cromwell
  Road on March 5 received press
  coverage in the United States on
  March 7.
  A photograph accompanied
  by a short caption appeared in
  'USA Today' one of...

• Students step forward
  04

  Students step forward
  IT WAS open house after
  shutting up shop at Bretton
  branch on March 19.
  For the second year in succession
  students from local schools
  and colleges were invited with
  their parents to a careers...

• Conference calls in
  05

  Conference calls in
  THERE WAS an international
  gathering at Nine Elms on March
  20 when 44 delegates of the CIES
  1985 London conference visited
  the store. The CIES is an
  international organisation of
  multiple retailers whose...

• National Gallery donation
  05

  National Gallery donation
  This cartoon by JAK appeared in The Standard on April 4. A PRIVATE DONATION from
  Chairman, Sir John Sainsbury
  and his brothers, Mr Simon and
  Mr Timothy, will now make it
  possible for the long...

• Tax man on wine
  05

  Tax man on wine
  ROY EKINS is Sainsbury's new
  wine speaker. He joins William
  Foster who has been performing
  this service since June 1984.
  A tax inspector from Formby
  in Liverpool, Roy Ekins has
  travelled extensively round...

• Branch opening—Chadwell Heath
  06

  As a flurry of late snow fell in Essex the
  wraps were taken off the new Chadwell
  Heath store. Chairman , Sir John Sainsbury
  opened the doors to customers who poured
  in to find that the store is as impressive on
  the inside as...

• Satisfying a healthy appetite for knowledge
  08

  Satisfying a healthy appetite for knowledge
  There's a w e a l t h of health around these days as
  Britons become increasingly a w a r e of t h e c o n t e n t
  of f o o d being served up t o t h em by f o o d retailers.
  Doctors,...

• Friends are found once again
  10

  Friends are found once again
  New recruits to the ever growing veterans
  family were overwhelmed at the warm
  reception they received at the 37th annual
  reception held once again at the Royal
  Lancaster Hotel on April 15 and...

• New look cookery books
  12

  New look cookery books
  Over the years Sainsbury's has sold over ten
  million cookery books encouraging customers to
  experiment with a wide range of national and
  international recipe ingredients. Recently the whole
  range has...

• Appliance of science
  14

  Appliance of science
  if sci
  SAINSBURY'S IS ALL set to
  become hair's best friend with
  the launch of two new hair-care
  ranges—the 'herbal' system and
  the 'scientific' system.
  The herbal hair formulas, for
  all hair types,...

• Great outdoors
  14

  Great outdoors
  COOL AND COLOURFULthat's
  the best way to describe.
  Sainsbury's new range of Picnicware
  now ready for summer
  outings.
  To keep wine chilled and
  sandwiches fresh, JS has introduced
  three sizes of...

• Souped up for the cup
  14

  Souped up
  for the cup
  THAT SUPER range of Sainsbury's
  Soup-in-a-Cup Specials has
  recently been extended to
  include three new varieties.
  Barbecue Bacon and Tomato
  with Croutons (88g), Chicken
  and Mushroom with...

• Chocs away
  15

  THERE WILL be chocs around
  the clock with Hand-Made
  Chocolates from Sainsbury's, on
  sale from two selected in-store
  bakeries.
  There are ten varieties including
  Truffles (in five flavours
  —Grand Marnier, Rum,...

• French collection
  15

  THE TOAST of the summer
  season is almost certain to be one
  of Sainsbury's new wines.
  Burgundy is one of France's
  most prestigious vineyard areas,
  producing fine wines that enjoy a
  worldwide reputation. JS has two
  new wines...

• Tear off a stripe
  15

  Tear off a stripe
  SAINSBURY'S HAS a new
  dynamic duo ready to attack
  domestic spillages.
  'Stripes' is the name of the
  latest range of JS Kitchen Towels.
  In two unique colourways—red
  or green stripe on a white
  background...

• The reds are coming
  15

  The reds are coming
  A NEW FRUITY foursome is
  ready to be picked from the
  yogurt ranks at JS.
  Strawberry, Raspberry and
  Redcurrant, Champagne Rhubarb
  and Fruits of the Forest,
  make up this quartet. Its introduction
  extends...

• Tropical tipple
  15

  Tropical tipple
  BRITISH SUMMER TIME has
  begun in the best possible way
  with the introduction of a new
  fruit drink especially geared to
  the warmer months ahead.
  Sainsbury's Island Sun Drink is
  an exciting blend of...

• Art ad
  16

  Art ad
  AVID ITALIAN film buffs have long
  had their suspicions on the
  methods used by their most
  famous director Federico Fellini.
  His films always include at least
  one character so stupendously
  large that one feels...

• Big freeze
  16

  Big freeze
  BEJAM, the food and freezer
  retailer, has again shown good
  results for the six months ended
  December 31, 1984. On sales of
  £175 million an increase of 12 per
  cent on the same period last
  year— Bejam's pre-tax...

• Brief budget
  16

  Brief budget
  IN TERMS of advance speculation
  over its contents this year's
  Budget must be worth a place in
  the Guinness Book of Records.
  Last year the Chancellor of the
  Exchequer made fundamental
  changes to the system for...

• Eat your vegetables
  16

  Eat your vegetables
  The battle for hearts and stomachs is warming up with salvoes
  being fired by the Vegetarian Society and the nation's butchers.
  The Society has recently appointed a new chief executive, Peter
  Cox, who has...

• Milk moves
  16

  Milk moves
  MARCH witnessed a significant
  realignment within the UK dairy
  industry. Northern Foods of Hull
  paid Grand Metropolitan £51
  million for the north of England
  division of Express Dairies. This
  moved Northern into...

• Woolworth results
  16

  Woolworth results
  WOOLWORTH HOLDINGS has surprised nearly
  everyone by announcing better results than
  anticipated for the 53 weeks to February 2,1985.
  On increased sales of £1.66 billion (1983/84
  £1.27 billion) trading...

• Cooking up an idea for the children
  17

  Cooking up an idea for the children
  SELLING OF a different kind by
  staff from Bracknell resulted in
  over £400 being raised for the
  children's charities.
  SSA committee members
  Mary Bax, Ann Evans, Sheila
  Cook and Pam...

• Customer's centenary
  17

  Customer's centenary
  HOW'S THIS for customer
  loyalty? Millie Binns a customer
  at New Maiden has been
  shopping at Sainsbury's for fifty
  years! But Millie was already fifty
  herself when she first walked into
  J Sainsbury's in...

• Help for the hospital
  17

  Help for the hospital
  THE PRESENTATION of a
  cheque for £441 to Farnborough
  Hospital on April 2 was the
  culmination of three months hard
  fundraising undertaken by West
  Wickham.
  Since Christmas last year each
  department in...

• Moroccan markets
  17

  Moroccan markets are highly competitive places and it
  seems traders are not averse to a little plagiarism.
  This advertising slogan—'Quality better than Sainsbury's
  Prices cheaper than Tesco'—now appears to be promoting
  the...

• Bill Allen
  18

  Bill Allen, SSA functions organiser (second from left) presents a cheque for £1000, money raised
  by the Miss JS raffle, to Variety Club's chief barker, John Ratcliff (left). Also in the picture is
  John's wife Marsha and actor,...

• He's a scholar of science
  18

  He's a scholar of science
  REPAIRING COMPLICATED
  electronic equipment has earned
  Saturday student at Bedminster,
  David Whitrow a scholarship to
  Bangor University, North Wales.
  Mr Fix-it, as he is known to his
  chums at...

• High fliers are dropped
  18

  High fliers are dropped
  SKY-HIGH AMBITIONS prompted
  three members of staff from
  Wellingborough to throw themselves
  from a plane recently.
  Firmly strapped into their
  parachutes, Jane Wildman,
  cashier instructor,...

• Knitters band to aid
  18

  Knitters band to aid
  ENGAGED IN furious activity,
  staff from Lexden branch
  recently knitted a total of 70
  jumpers for the famine victims of
  Ethiopia.
  The Women's Royal Voluntary
  Service has been collecting the
  jumpers from...

• Where's the fire then?
  18

  Where's the fire then?
  THERE MAY be no smoke
  without fire but it certainly isn't
  the case that there are no firemen
  without fire as Maggie Hussey,
  BPO at Crosby, discovered
  recently.
  She was chatting to a friend
  who is...

• Have a nice Family Day
  19

  Have a nice Family Day
  FOOTBALLERS, netballers,
  athletes and superstars are all
  busy training for Family Day,
  coming soon on June 16.
  The committee is still coordinating
  the vast job of
  organisation, and spectacles...

• The finals frontier
  19

  The finals frontier
  PERISHABLES proved indestructible on
  Sunday, March 23 when the finals of the
  Griffin football cup 1984-85 were played
  out at the Griffin Ground in Dulwich.
  The head office team was well matched
  against...

• Basingstoke bowls promoted
  20

  Basingstoke bowls promoted
  BOWLS HAVE BEEN successfully
  rolling for a year at the
  Griffin Bowls Club, Basingstoke
  depot and now it's time for a few
  rounds of applause.
  It's the 'A team who are in the
  limelight at the...

• Flipping well lost it
  20

  Flipping well lost it
  THE CARELESS toss of a
  pancake cost four ladies of
  Horsham branch a winning place
  in the local pancake relay race,
  held on February 19.
  Jayne Riley, Julie Taylor, Lyn
  Weller and Melody...

• Making it on the market
  20

  Making it on the market
  MARKET STALL OPERATORS
  must be a hardy breed with a
  plentiful supply of thermal
  underwear according to a handful
  of Cambridge and Haverhill YTS
  trainees.
  During the two coldest days in
  February,...

• Stars of stage and screen
  20

  Stars of stage and screen
  ALL THE world's a stage or at
  least it is up in Leeds!
  For the second year running a
  few 'amateur dramatic' staff
  decided to 'do it again' for charity
  and take part in the pantomime
  called...

• Treading the boards in 'Anger'
  20

  Treading the boards in 'Anger'
  FOLARIN HASSAN, student at
  Putney, was once again the
  leading light in his school's annual
  drama production (see JSJ May
  1984). This year, the play was
  John Osborne's 'Look Back in
  Anger' a...

• Cassie shows her class at Crafts
  21

  Cassie shows her class at Crafts

• Dance for his life
  21

  Dance for his life
  AFTER FIGHTING and winning
  his battle against cancer, Michael
  Zwager, provisions manager at
  Stevenage, recently organised a
  charity disco in aid of cancer
  research.
  In gratitude to all his...

• Pedal pushers
  21

  Pedal pushers
  THAT EXERCISE cycle has
  been at it again! Those roving
  wheels found themselves recently
  at North Cheam where 20
  members of staff saddled up to
  raise £700 for the NSPCC.
  Two outstanding pedal-pushers
  were...

• Shelton Lower School
  21

  When Shelton Lower School, Bedford,
  asked for fish heads for its five to nine year
  olds to examine, Kempston Sainsbury's
  presented them with a haul.
  After intensive scientific research, the
  children wrote to the branch to...

• Winning with words
  21

  Winning with words
  Winners of the
  crossword
  competition which
  appeared in the
  February Journal
  are:
  Janet Greenyer,
  accounts VDU
  clerk, directs
  department,
  Streatham.
  Graham
  Stoggles, leading
  store...

• Appointments
  22

  Appointments
  Philip Myers, formerly senior
  departmental manager at York
  Homebase, has been appointed
  manager at Bradford Homebase.

• Long service
  22

  Long service
  Tony Purchase, senior merchandiser,
  branch merchandising at
  Blackfriars, has completed 40
  years with the company.
  He joined JS as a clerk in the
  accounts department at Ewell
  and two years later transferred...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  Bill Hanlon, assistant meat
  manager at Stamford Hill, has
  retired after 38 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company at Stamford Hill manual
  branch as a butcher. Bill worked
  in several north and east...

• Wedding belles and boys
  22

  Wedding belles and boys
  BOTH FROM North Cheam
  branch, Cheryl Morgan (office
  manager) and leading departmental
  assistant Gary Francis,
  were married at St Paul's Methodist
  Church, Crawley on February
  2. The lucky couple...

• Feedback
  23

  FEEDBACK
  Football facts From: Dave Davis, veteran,
  London N19.
  I was interested to read in the
  Journal Gary Crowe's letter
  regarding a JS football league as
  it reminds me of what there used
  to be in the past.
  When branches...

• Obituary
  23

  Obituary
  Denys Masters, manager, productivity
  services department at
  Charlton depot, died suddenly
  on March 4, aged 42.
  He had been with the company
  since 1968.
  Raymond Pettifer, driver at
  Basingstoke depot died...

• Shop local
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Shop local FEW CAN resist the
  m J charms of an old photograph
  and new additions
  J*. to the Archives photo
  library are particularly valued for
  the way in which they evoke a
  detailed image of days gone by.
  Two...