'JS Journal', January/February 1986

Table of content

• 40-Year Luncheon
  02

  40-Year Luncheon
  A GRAND TOTAL of 320 years
  service was totted up and celebrated
  by eight members of staff
  who attended the 40 year
  luncheon held in Stamford House
  on January 6.
  Shortly after arriving a prelunch
  drink was...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4
  Honorary degree for Sir John Sainsbury
  Page 5
  Report on success story of the YTS scheme
  Page 6-10
  Openings
  —Ilford
  —Altrincham
  —Chichester
  —Islington
  -Colchester Homebase
  Page 11
  JS receives award for...

• FRONTLINE
  02

  FRONTLINE
  1986 is Energy Efficiency Year,
  Industry Year and also the year
  in which JS staff will be working
  for the National Society for
  Cancer Relief. All three are
  already making their mark.
  Monergy 86 becomes the...

• Appointments at Haverhill
  03

  Appointments at Haverhill
  DAN PILLAR, general manager
  of HMP for the past 14 years,
  reaches retirement ages in April
  and the following changes at
  executive director level took
  effect on January 1 in order to
  Bill Fowler...

• Christmas trading report
  03

  Christmas trading report
  Chairman, Sir John Sainsbury,
  made the following announcements
  to all members of the
  company at new year.
  'Christmas 1985 must have
  brought great satisfaction to all in
  JS. Customers found the...

• Institute of Grocery Distribution Ball
  03

  At the Institute of Grocery Distribution Ball, Peter Davis,
  assistant managing director,
  presented a JS prize to raffle
  winner, Mrs Qoodfellow — wife
  of Tesco's fresh foods
  director!

• Property
  03

  PROPERTY
  JS HAS RECEIVED detailed
  planning consent for a new store
  at Walters Yard, Bromley. The
  supermarket will employ 317 staff.
  Sales area will be 28,500 sq ft and
  there will be parking for 229 cars.
  Application for...

• Degree ceremony
  04

  Degree ceremony
  THE CEREMONY at which an honorary doctorate of the University of London was conferred on chairman,
  Sir John Sainsbury, took place only shortly before publication of the Christmas edition of the Journal.
  With the...

• Duke of Edinburgh Awards
  05

  Duke of Edinburgh Awards
  AN EXAMPLE of imagination
  in action can be found at King's
  Lynn and Bretton branch, whose
  YTS students chose to take part
  in the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze
  award as part of their...

• From YTS to training manager in one move
  05

  From YTS to training manager in one move
  Karen Blenkinsop
  PERHAPS THE single most outstanding
  achievement of the YTS
  scheme is to have launched the
  first ever student into the JS
  trainee management scheme.
  Karen Blenkinsop,...

• YTS Area winners
  05

  YTS Area winners
  ONCE AGAIN during 1985 YTS
  students in all five trading areas
  competed for the much sought
  after position of YTS area
  winner. Put forward by their
  respective managers all presented
  a portfolio of work and...

• Branch opening—Ilford
  06

  A trip to the llford branch on
  opening morning was a trip down
  memory lane for many customers
  who remembered the eleven
  previous llford stores.
  They voted the twelfth a winner! ILFORD
  1. Management lines up.
  2. Come on...

• Branch opening—Altrincham
  07

  ALTRINCHAM
  ALTRINCHAM
  Opening date: 12 November 1985
  Address: Lloyd Street, Altrincham
  Opened by: Joe Barnes, retail
  director
  Manager: Michael Hobday
  Staff: 232(161 new jobs)
  Sales area: 23,724 sq ft
  Car park: 300...

• Branch opening—Chichester
  08

  CHICHESTER
  ALL CHANGE for Chichester. A brand
  new store to replace the old
  supermarket on North Street opened in
  Chichester on a snowy November
  morning.
  CHICHESTER
  Opening date: 19 November 1985
  Address: Westhampnett...

• Branch opening—Islington
  09

  ISLINGTON
  Opening dale: 3 December, 1985
  Address: 33-41 Liverpool Road,
  Islington, London N1
  Opened by: Chairman, Sir John
  Sainsbury
  Manager Raymond Hayne
  Staff: 297 (194 new jobs)
  Sales area: 25,000 sq ft
  Car park: 240...

• Homebase opening—Colchester
  10

  COLCHESTER
  Opening date: 26 December 1985
  Address: St Andrew's Avenue,
  Colchester, Essex
  Opened by: Dino Adriano, general
  manager
  Manager: Bernadette Guler
  Staff: 61
  Sales area: 43,640 sq ft
  Car park: 194 spaces.
  Kiki1...

• SAINSBURY'S RETAIL BUSINESS CHALLENGE
  11

  Sainsbury's has issued a challenge
  to school and college
  students between the ages of
  15 and 18. They're looking for
  bright sparks with business
  brains and retailing talent to
  enter a competition to come
  up with the best...

• Something to sing about
  11

  Something to sing about
  IN THE 1985 Awards for Business Sponsors
  of the Arts organised by ABSA and the Daily
  Telegraph, Sainsbury's has won an award for
  the Best Single Event — The Sainsbury's Choir
  of the Year...

• School Aid... letting them know it was Christmas time
  12

  School Aid... letting them know it was Christmas time
  FEED THE WORLD. It's a tall order but the
  Band Aid Organisation has achieved many
  minor miracles in the pursuit of meeting the
  desperate needs of the starving in...

• The Cancer Care Campaign is underway...
  12

  The Cancer Care Cam paign is underway... WITH THE CLOSE of another successful
  charity campaign, namely the JS campaign
  for the children's charities, comes the launch
  of the charity campaign for 1986 in aid of the
  National...

• Richard Briars
  13

  Richard Briars recently accepted the money raised by you for Action Research
  for the Crippled Child. Bromley area director, David Clapham presented the
  cheque for more than £48,000 at Lewlsham branch.

• Energy management conference
  14

  Energy management conference
  THE NINTH National Energy Management
  Conference was held in Birmingham in
  November and there Peter Walker launched
  Monergy 86 with the touch of a button. At
  this moment electronic displays at...

• GET MORE FOR YOUR MONERGY
  14

  CUT THE JUICE BRUCE and you'll get
  more for your monergy.
  The government's Energy Efficiency Office
  has launched Monergy 86 — a campaign
  designed to save energy in what has been
  designated Energy Efficiency Year.
  Homebase...

• New pensions committee to represent members
  14

  New pensions committee to represent members
  WHAT DOES YOUR PENSION mean to
  you? is it a subject you've put aside under L
  for later? But later in life is only the time when
  your pension matures. All through your
  working life...

• Crumbs — it's pure cod
  16

  Crumbs — it's pure cod
  A NOW ALMOST traditional
  item on the British dinner table is
  the fish finger. And almost as
  traditional, although they were
  never an advertising feature, are
  the artificial additives which used
  to...

• Dee profits soar while Argyll takes to drink
  16

  Dee profits soar while Argyll takes to drink
  DEE CORPORATION and the
  Argyll Group have both seen out
  1985 with impressive results for
  the half year to the end of
  September. Dee (Gateway foodmarkets
  and Carrefour...

• Feminine touch returns to Tesco
  16

  Feminine touch returns to Tesco
  THREE YEARS after the retirement
  of its last woman director,
  Daisy Hyams, Tesco has announced
  that Detta O'Cathain has
  accepted an invitation to join the
  board of directors in a...

• JS enters Eurobond market
  16

  JS enters Eurobond market
  ON DECEMBER 3 JS entered the international
  capital markets for the first time and borrowed
  £60 million on the Eurobond market, with the
  option to borrow another £40 million as the
  need arises. A...

• Surveying the mountain scene
  16

  Surveying the mountain scene
  EUROPE'S food mountains and
  wine lakes are once again dragging
  the EEC into a financial
  crisis. Under the rules of the
  Common Agricultural Policy
  (CAP) EEC farmers are guaranteed
  a minimum, or...

• City speak or how to talk in takeover terms
  17

  City speak or how to talk in takeover terms
  1985 was the year of the takeover. This City occupation is fraught with Jargon and JSJ readers may
  find the following glossary helpful In deciphering the coded messages In the...

• Retailing by rail
  17

  Retailing by rail
  HAVE YOU ever wondered how to
  pass away those hours spent on
  railway stations 'listening to
  announcements' about the latest
  cancellations? British Rail has
  come up with an answer. No, they
  are not going to...

• 'Fit for work' award for BPM
  18

  'Fit for work' award for BPM
  JANET GOMM, BPM at Great
  Yarmouth (centre right) recently
  received a 'Fit for Work' award
  on behalf of the branch.
  The 'Fit for Work' scheme was
  introduced in 1979 by the Manpower
  Services...

• Free wheeling
  18

  Free wheeling
  TWO JS STAFF had a great
  Christmas when they grabbed
  goods to the value of £245.
  Chadwell Heath held their
  'grub grab' on October 29. It was
  the winning prize in a draw
  organised by the Lions Club of
  Barking...

• Mitcham branch
  18

  Mitcham branch at Waterdown in Croydon, enjoying a good night out. Seventy members of staff
  attended the dance late last year.

• Throwing for gold
  18

  Throwing for gold
  TWO LADIES of Norwich St
  Stephens are the latest JS champs.
  Supermarket assistant Susan
  HalUday proved herself a double
  winner recently. Firstly, she won a
  gold medal in the Judo Championships
  against...

• CHRISTMAS AT Coldhams Lane
  19

  CHRISTMAS AT Coldhams
  Lane came along with a sting in
  its tail.
  During a special shopping
  evening for disabled people,
  customers could not believe
  their eyes when a two-legged bee
  turned up.
  It was, however, just...

• Cycle-a-thon for guide dogs
  19

  Cycle-a-thon for guide dogs
  A RIDE ON two wheels has given
  help to some friends on four legs.
  Staff from Edmonton recently
  cycled from the branch to
  Rayleigh Weir to raise £682 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind.
  Included in...

• Special gift
  19

  Special gift
  VERY FEW OF US will ever
  have the chance of helping to save
  anther human being's life, but
  Val Leach, assistant meat
  manager at Bedminster has been
  chosen for such a task.
  Val has always been a regular
  blood...

• How did you put up with them?
  20

  How did you put up with them?
  CHILDREN ARE not the only
  ones who are impressed by
  Sainsbury's when their school
  visits, it would seem.
  Following a trip to Kingsbury
  branch by a class from Sinai
  School in Kenton, the...

• Jolly hockey sticks
  20

  Jolly hockey sticks
  GOING FOR GOALS and glory
  on December 8 were two hockey
  teams from JS.
  At Ongar, Essex, the Romford
  (area office) Routers took on the
  Blackfriars Bullies.
  Players old and new to the game
  fought out a...

• Miss JS for Uxbridge area
  20

  Miss JS for Uxbridge area is Louise Connechie, of Corby branch
  (right). Runners up were Samantha Gallagher of Dunstable (left)
  and Helen Lazenby of Bletchley. Jimmy Tarbuck entertained
  members of staff at the dance held at...

• Stepping out for MENCAP
  20

  Stepping out for MENCAP
  IN AID OF MENCAP, staff
  from Christchurch recently
  stepped out to raise £254.
  The money, which was raised
  in a sponsored walk organised by
  price controller Elaine Thompson, will purchase a
  specially...

• Weighty cheque for babies
  20

  Weighty cheque for babies
  A 12-MILE sponsored walk by
  staff from Woodhall Farm has
  raised £500.
  In November the cheque was
  presented to Hemel Hempstead Hospital by provisions manager,
  Duncan Kay. The money will be
  used to...

• Kidderminster cares
  21

  Kidderminster cares
  CARING STAFF from Kidderminster
  have helped improve the
  quality of care for young patients
  at the town's general hospital.
  They raised £325 by a number of
  activities.
  Meat manager Bill Grew ran...

• LOCK YOUR DOORS
  21

  'LOCK YOUR DOORS, windows too, the next statistic could
  be you.' That was the winning slogan in a crime watch
  competition, written by Alyson Moss, store instructor at York
  Homebase (right of picture).
  Alyson beat 134 other...

• Mayday receives help
  21

  Mayday receives help
  AN SOS from Mayday Hospital
  has fired the local 68 Croydon
  branch into collecting money for
  a much needed scanning machine.
  A car boot sale, parachute
  jump, bike ride and a fishing trip
  were only a few...

• APOLOGIES
  22

  APOLOGIES to Ron Browning
  of Basingstoke depot. In the
  December issue of the Journal it
  was reported under retirements,
  that he had completed 25 years
  with the company. In fact, it was
  40 years'service — and should
  have...

• Appointments
  22

  Appointments
  Lawrence Griffin, formerjy
  manager at Golders Green, has
  been appointed manager of
  Muswell Hill.
  John Hardeley, formerly
  deputy manager at Bracknell, has
  been appointed manager of
  Walton-on-Thames.
  Granville...

• Dag Bumstead
  22

  Dag Bumstead retired as departmental director, traditional nonfoods,
  after 28 years and he sent the following farewell from his
  cartoon namesake:

• Forty four years on
  22

  Forty four years on
  A GOLDEN RETIREMENT
  and a pearl wedding anniversary
  both appear in 1986 for George
  Howard, manager at Kingston.
  He began his career with JS at
  Tolworth and two years later was
  called up into the army....

• Long service
  22

  Long service
  Bill Evans, systems supervisor at
  Charlton depot, has completed 25
  years with the company.
  He joined JS as a contact clerk
  in the Blackfriars sales office and
  in 1966 moved to Union Street as a bacon clerk. Four...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  Peggy Davies, office manager at
  Bitterne, has retired after 31 years
  with the company.
  She joined JS at Winchester
  manual shop and in 1963 moved
  to Shirley as office manager.
  Peggy returned to Winchester...

• Feedback
  23

  FEEDBACK
  Marketing
  methods
  From: Royston Morris, senior
  trades assistant, Taunton
  As an employee of JS, I feel
  compelled to write to you concerning
  the prices of some of our
  festive lines this year (namely
  Christmas...

• Marriage
  23

  Melanle Smith, supermarket assistant, married Michael
  Ferguson, baker, both of Huddersfleld store, recently at
  Salendlne Nook Baptist Church. They've both worked at the
  store since It's opening.

• Obituary
  23

  Fred Bailey, non-perishable
  warehouseman at Basingstoke
  depot, died suddenly on October
  21, aged 55.
  He had been with the company
  since 1975.
  Arthur Biggs, store service
  assistant at Bitterne, died after a
  short illness on...

• Market memories
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Chapel Street, Islington c.1895. Sainsbury's shop at No. 48 is in the foreground Below: Sainsbury's third
  branch in Chapel Street
  which opened at No. 76 in
  1889. These early branches
  often had a stall outside
  from...