'JS Journal', August 1985

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2, 3, 9
  News
  Page 4-5
  New products
  Page 6-7
  Business news
  Page 8
  Just the job — the branch security manager
  Page 10-12
  The stuff of which great salads are made
  Page 13-15
  News in brief
  Page 16-17
  Hobbies — Guarding...

• Shareholders travel to AGM to meet directors
  02

  Shareholders travel to AGM to meet directors
  EVERY COMPANY is required
  by law to hold an Annual General
  Meeting at which the directors
  meet the shareholders to discuss
  the performance of the company.
  The AGM is the last in a...

• JS helps protect Bath
  03

  JS helps protect Bath
  A FITTING new tenant for the IS-restored Green Park
  Station is the Bath Society, watchdog ol the city's
  conservation, preservation and development.
  The society now occupies the first floor of...

• Mention it to the employees
  03

  Mention it to the employees
  IS has collected yet another award
  — this time for the 1984/85
  Employee Report.
  The report received a 'Maynards
  Mention' in a competition organised
  by the Industrial Society and
  the financial...

• Princess's birthday
  03

  Princess's birthday
  PRINCESS SQUARE shopping
  complex in Bracknell celebrated its
  first birthday on May 15 with a
  451b birthday cake.
  The huge red and white cake
  was baked by Keith Wooller,
  bakery manager at Bracknell....

• Welcome to Watford comrades
  03

  Welcome to Watford comrades.
  Russian delegates
  enjoyed a shopping trip at
  Watford store recently as
  part of a week's package of
  excursions for visiting Russians,
  Katerina Mishurnia,
  Pavel Evdokimov and Igor
  Kaberov. The...

• Carry on
  04

  Carry on
  GIVE SHOPPING a modern
  outlook with Sainsbury's new
  design cotton-lined PVC carrier
  bags.
  These new bags are made of a
  brilliant white PVC and feature
  a pink or grey 'Sainsbury's' logo.
  Sainsbury's new design...

• Cheers in August
  04

  Cheers in August
  FOR WINE OF the month for
  August, there is a choice of red
  or white.
  Chateau les Bouysses Cahors
  1981 AC is a rich full-bodied red
  wine. The vineyards of the
  Cahors region, in south-west
  France, are...

• Cream in a can
  04

  Cream in a can
  WHIP UP a real tea-time treat
  with Sainsbury's new Real Dairy
  Cream — from an aerosol.
  This product is fresh cream
  with extended keeping qualities.
  It is the perfect topping for fresh
  fruit, trifles,...

• Cute cooks
  04

  Cute cooks
  ALL THE BEST dressed kitchens
  will be wearing this season's latest
  designs from Sainsbury's.
  There are three new designs in
  cotton kitchen accessories which
  will stand out in any kitchen.
  Available in each print,...

• Five tine wines
  04

  Five tine wines
  JS HAS a crop of new wines, just
  right for summer tasting, from
  Italy and France.
  Cabernet Franc Aquileia DOC
  is a dry red wine from North East
  Italy. This wine is made on a
  small, single estate known...

• Juice with bite
  04

  Juice with bite
  A REFRESHING new product is
  Pure English Apple Juice.
  This unsweetened juice —
  pressed from fresh English apples
  is very tasty and just one 100ml glass will provide more than the
  recommended daily amount...

• Party plates plus
  04

  Party plates plus
  BRIGHTEN UP parties and
  picnics with Sainsbury's new
  selection of disposable tableware
  available from 142 branches.
  For the 'day out' is the 'butterflies
  and flowers' design. The
  23cm diameter plates (8...

• Soft and silky
  04

  Soft and silky
  TO ADD a touch of luxury to the
  bathroom, Sainsbury's has introduced
  a new range of Pima
  Cotton Towels.
  Pima cotton, grown in Israel,
  Egypt and Peru, is a very fine,
  extra long fibre which, when
  woven into a...

• Bags of beauty
  05

  Bags of beauty
  MAKING NEW designs on the
  bathroom, bedroom or beach is
  a new range of beauty bags.
  Ideal for packing in a range of toiletries, cosmetics and 'sun'
  products is the large barrel shaped
  Continental Holdall at...

• Perfect in pastry
  05

  Perfect in pastry
  FOR A COUNTRY TASTE try
  Chunky Fresh Vegetable Pasty
  from JS.
  This individual pasty is rich in
  fibre in both the filling of swede,
  carrot, onion and celery and the
  pastry with added bran. Made in Cornwall,...

• Shades of fashion
  05

  Shades of fashion
  FOR A LIVELY, bright head of
  hair, JS has recently introduced
  Colour Styling Mousse.
  This versatile product will not
  only help to style and condition
  hair, but also enhance natural
  hair colour or add new,...

• The bottom line
  05

  The bottom line
  SAINSBURY'S IS getting to
  the bottom of things with the
  introduction of some very
  fashionable underwear.
  A very 'up-to-the-minute'
  design for ladies, is the Dip Front
  — a high legged continental style,
  in...

• Thirst crusher
  05

  Thirst crusher
  A REAL thirst-quenching drink
  from JS is just the thing to cure
  summer time blues.
  Citrus 5 Crush is a refreshing
  blend of the juices of Orange,
  Lemon, Mandarin, Grapefruit
  and Lime. This 'long life'...

• Argyll — good results and future plans
  06

  Argyll — good results and future plans
  ARGYLL GROUP, which is better
  known for its supermarkets
  Presto, Liptons, Hintons,
  Templetons and Lo-Cost, has
  announced impressive results for
  the year to March 30, 1985....

• Christian distributes shares
  06

  Christian distributes shares
  ONE OF THE companies involved
  in the JS distribution network,
  Christian Salvesen, has recently
  obtained a listing on the Stock
  Exchange. This means that its
  shares, which were previously
  held...

• Introducing the new business writer
  06

  Introducing the new business writer
  TONY SHIRET, who joined JS in January as a financial
  analyst, takes over as business writer in the Journal.
  In a good position to keep a weather eye on the retailing
  field, Tony's job...

• OFT Report finds no abuse
  06

  OFT Report finds no abuse
  THE LONG AWAITED report of
  the Office of Fair Trading on
  discounts in the retail trade has
  cleared the retailing multiples of
  unfairly abusing their market
  strength.
  The report concludes that...

• Tesco announces results
  06

  Tesco announces results
  TESCO's results for the year to February 23 were
  announced recently. The City's reaction was to
  drop the share price but not too dramatically.
  Tesco's pre-tax profits of £81.3 million on sales
  of £3...

• Fitch Lovell's cup of tea
  07

  Fitch Lovell's cup of tea
  THE LAST of the main independent
  tea companies, Jacksons of
  Piccadilly, has been bought by the
  food manufacturer and wholesaler
  Fitch Lovell in a deal worth
  £1.7 million. It follows in the...

• McVities take the biscuit in sport
  07

  McVities take the biscuit in sport
  SEEKERS OF sponsorship may
  find the thinking behind McVities'
  (the biscuit manufacturer)
  £200,000 sponsorship deal with
  the British athletics authorities,
  educational. McVities'...

• Pack in the USA
  07

  Pack in the USA
  JS CHECKOUT
  packers may be
  interested to hear
  Mr Troy Spencer
  of Vons
  Supermarkets has
  recently won the
  US West Coast
  grocery bag
  packing
  competition. The
  competition
  involved 3,400
  grocery...

• Taking the waters
  07

  Taking the waters
  THE ADVENT of summer — that
  mythical day or two when we all
  complain that it is too hot and old
  men remember wistfully the
  drought of 1976 — has been
  marked this year by a cascade of
  new entries in the...

• Nick's slim pickings
  08

  Nick's slim pickings
  SLIMLINE STYLE Nick
  Pothecary, electrical design
  engineer, Blackfriars, presented
  two cheques to representatives
  from Cancer Research and the
  British Heart Foundation (BHF)
  on June 18.
  Following months...

• Security is putting safety first
  08

  Security is putting safety first
  JOHN PERRETT ponders over
  a question. He seems to be
  mentally frisking his answer refore allowing it to emerge.
  He's out of uniform for the
  first time in his career but
  original cartoons...

• Third Leamington St John's Cub Pack
  08

  When the Third Leamington St John's Cub Pack was in danger of
  having to pack up due to lack of funds, scout leader, Brian
  Payne's daughter, Rachel, YTS trainee at Leamington Spa, decided
  to do something about it.
  Rachel and...

• Competition draws the children
  09

  Competition draws the children
  WITH A FLOURISH of her felt
  pens, Victoria Bennett (left), aged
  eight, outcoloured the other entrants
  in the Family Day Children's
  Colouring Competition.
  Stiltman, Joe Long, handed out
  the...

• Golf society gets going
  09

  Golf society gets going
  TEEING OFF for the first time
  on June 19 was the Head Office
  Golf Society.
  Formed in the spring of this
  year by Neil Watson, economist,
  the society is made up of 40
  members. 'We had an...

• SALAD DAYS ARE HERE DAYS ARE UT7I> 17
  10

  SALAD DAYS ARE HERE
  HOW DO YOU catch a rabbit? Sit behind a bush and make a noise
  like a lettuce!
  The Journal is not about to launch into a dissertation on noises made
  by different salad stuffs nor, come to that, the...

• Cap it all Carter
  13

  Cap it all Carter
  CRICKET CAPTAINS Stuart
  Carter (right) and Ken Barden,
  more famous within the company,
  perhaps, as district managers, led
  their teams out on June 12 for a
  match which pitted the skills of
  Barden's bowling...

• Lincoln dances on
  13

  Lincoln dances on
  Mary Werrell, supermarket assistant at Lincoln, has once again
  been encouraging her colleagues to dance for a good cause (JSJ
  June 85). Staff at the branch held yet another disco and their
  bopping and jiving...

• Skittles went tumbling down
  13

  Skittles went tumbling down as over 50 staff from Bitterne branch
  helped to raise £331 to boost Hightown Ambulance Station's 'Lifepak
  5' appeal. Among the events organised were a skittles evening,
  sponsored slim and a jumble...

• Wembley ticket sales
  13

  Wembley ticket sales
  WEMBLEY is a crack sales team
  in more ways than one! Staff
  there sold more raffle tickets than
  any other branch in the Uxbridge
  area lottery in aid of the
  children's charities. Tfiey sold a
  total of...

• Shock horror as JS staff shoot children!
  14

  Shock horror as JS staff shoot children!
  SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION '85
  JJL
  NOW THAT we've got your
  attention, we want to prick your
  conscience. How many children
  have you shot for the SSA/JS
  Journal...

• State of the art
  14

  State of the art
  STAFF AT Coventry branch
  have their own private art gallery
  thanks to Thelma Sharman's
  (branch personnel manager,
  BPM) son, John.
  For years the same old paintings
  had graced the walls of the
  staff canteen...

• Walking on sunshine
  14

  Walking on sunshine
  STRIDING OUT on a summer's
  day, 18 members of staff from
  Thorley branch successfully
  completed a sponsored walk.
  Led by manager Malcolm
  Jones, the Thorley trekkers
  arrived at the halfway point (a
  local...

• Zina's racing ahead
  14

  Zina's racing ahead
  SAINSBURY'S HAD many
  successes in this year's London
  Marathon, and success for
  Zina Marchant, at
  Chippenham, has assured her
  of a place at the event in 1986.
  Zina began the race at the
  blue' start —...

• Apology
  15

  Apology
  APOLOGIES to Julie Stocks,
  YTS student at Winton. Last
  month's Journal reported on five
  Bournemouth area YTS students
  completing a 24 mile sponsored
  walk. However, the five were in
  fact six with Julie making up...

• CROSSWORD
  15

  CROSSWORD
  AUGUST IS the month for holidays and there's no better way
  to pass time under the sun than by doing a crossword puzzle,
  Entries should be sent to the Journal and the first correct
  crossword to be pulled from a hat...

• Forest Hill's merry band
  15

  Forest Hill's merry band
  STAFF FROM Forest Hill were
  on target in their bid to raise
  funds for Sydenham Childrens
  Hospital.
  Manager, Frank Bishop and
  his merry men and women set up
  a 'bows and arrows' stall on
  Family Day....

• Gold is so special
  15

  Gold is so special
  TREVOR EDWARDS, part time
  customer service assistant at
  Bracknell, swam his way right to
  the top at the 'Special Olympics'
  in June of this year.
  Training every week at a local
  swimming pool, Trevor...

• Romance in store
  15

  Romance in store
  THE LATEST match of the
  month at JS is that of Jamie
  Collett of High Wycombe and
  Alison Bond of Aylesbury.
  Jamie, provisions manager, and
  Alison, a systems clerk, married at
  St Mary's Church, Chesham.
  For...

• Catch the bus bug
  16

  Catch the bus bug
  When John Swallow was no bigger than an egg
  his mother used to take him into town and lift
  him onto the huge mudguard of a bus to say
  hello to his dad sitting in the cab. John's father
  was a bus driver and...

• Piped dreams end in tiers
  17

  Piped dreams end in tiers
  Weddings, anniversaries, Christmas, birthdays
  — none of these festivities would be
  complete without the centre of attraction —
  the beautifully decorated cake.
  Christine Oliver, confectioner at...

• Everything's coming up roses for Lawrie
  18

  Everything's coming up roses for Lawrie
  FROM NOW ON, life will be a bed of
  roses for Lawrie Higgs, senior warehouse
  quality controller and senior meat
  examiner at Basingstoke depot, who
  retired recently after 45 years'...

• Long service
  18

  Long service
  Sam Thomas, meat manager at
  Bromley branch, has completed
  40 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company as a butchers learner at
  Rye Lane. Sam then joined 44/46
  Lewisham and in 1953 transferred
  to...

• Retirements
  18

  Retirements
  Derrick Ewington, tradesman at
  Harpenden, has retired after 38
  years with JS.
  He joined the company at St
  Albans and six years later
  transferred to Harpenden as
  butcher. In 1967, Derrick moved
  to Luton Bury...

• Feedback
  19

  FEEDBACK
  Play away
  day away
  From: Aidan Whitehead, SSA
  secretary, Liverpool.
  On behalf of Liverpool branch,
  I would like to thank the Family
  Day committee for organising
  such a good day on Sunday June
  16. This is the...

• Obituary
  19

  Obituary
  David Barber, warehouseman at
  Charlton depot, died after a long
  illness on June 7, aged 52.
  He had been with the company
  since 1953.
  Violet Bath, cleaner at
  Bitterne, died suddenly on June
  11, aged 55.
  She had...

• They're perfect Beasts
  20

  They're perfect Beasts
  THE SUMMER SEASON of agricultural
  shows is over for another year
  and today, as in the past, the farming
  community counts its success by
  the accolades awarded at such well-known
  events as the Royal...