'JS Journal', January/February 1987

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-5
  News
  Page 6-10
  Branch openings
  — Pinner
  — Uxbridge
  — Crayford
  - Ashford extension
  -Wakefield Homebase
  Page 11
  Good Neighbour Scheme — how JS has been helping the elderly
  Page 12-13
  JS does its homework — a look...

• FRONTLINE
  02

  FRONTLINE
  YOU CAN HEAR IT NOW . . .
  What did you do in the great
  freeze daddy? During the recent
  weeks, when Britain ground to a
  standstill under ever deepening
  snow, at JS, as elsewhere, the
  Dunkirk spirit prevailed....

• Regional managers for Homebase
  02

  Regional managers for Homebase
  John Old
  Evan Tidman
  David Boverhoff HOMEBASE director and general
  manager, Dennis Males has
  a n n o u n c e d the new
  appointments of three regional
  managers. They are John Old,
  manager,...

• Sir Roy to review care
  02

  Sir Roy to review care
  THE GOVERNMENT has
  asked Sir Roy Griffiths, deputy
  chairman and managing director,
  to undertake a review of
  community care.
  Sir Roy is deputy chairman of
  the National Health Service
  management board...

• Awards for architecture
  03

  Awards for architecture
  TWO STORES have recently
  won prestigious design awards.
  The York supermarket and
  Homebase development has
  received a commendation in the
  1986 Civic Trust Awards.
  The aim of the awards scheme
  is to:...

• Christmas review
  03

  Christmas review
  CHAIRMAN, Sir John Sainsbury,
  made the following
  announcement at New Year:
  'Christmas 1986 has been very
  satisfactory in every respect for
  JS. Customers found displays of
  a high standard, an...

• Habitat and Mothercare appear in SavaCentre
  03

  Habitat and Mothercare appear in SavaCentre
  MOTHERCARE and Habitat
  now stand shoulder to shoulder
  with Sainsbury's and British
  Home Stores under the
  SavaCentre roof at Calcot.
  The introduction of the new
  departments in the...

• Len Payne retires
  03

  Len Payne retires
  LEN PAYNE, director, company
  systems, retired on 16
  December 1986, after 12 years'
  service with the company.
  He joined JS as director of
  distribution and in July 1979
  assumed responsibility for...

• Magazines vote for top store managers
  04

  Magazines vote for top store managers
  Right: Richard Crann on
  left of pic with fellow
  finalists Paul Leighton
  and Paul Walkden.
  Below: Don Hayward. TWO STORE MANAGERS
  have been voted amongst the
  best in the UK.
  Richard...

• New recruits to the 40 year club
  04

  New recruits to the 40 year club SEVEN MEMBERS of staff
  and their guests attended a
  luncheon in Stamford House on
  January 5 to celebrate their 40
  years service with JS.
  Chairman, Sir John Sainsbury,
  and assistant managing...

• Community Centre for Winchester
  05

  (L to r) Colin Harvey, Andrew Brand and the Reverend Peter Furber
  with a community association member.
  Community Centre
  for Winchester ON 1 NOVEMBER 1986, Colin
  Harvey. South Western area
  director, opened a new...

• Homebase presents sports club with pavilion
  05

  Homebase presents sports club with pavilion
  Homebase's own team in front of the new pavilion. DENNIS MALES pulling pints?
  An unlikely pair of barmaids is
  the Homebase general manager
  and Catford's mayor, Norman
  Smith.
  They...

• JS designer dies
  05

  JS designer dies
  LEONARD BEAUMONT, former
  design consultant to JS,
  died on 11 December 1986.
  He joined JS in 1950. Probably
  his most important contribution
  to the company was the
  development of the first corporate
  identity...

• School lessons on screen
  05

  School lessons on screen
  HAVE COMPUTER, will travel, around the world of retailing.
  Pupils from St Francis College, Letchworth, visited Letchworth
  store as part of a local school-industry scheme. Produce manager,
  Peter Best,...

• Tribute
  05

  PERSONNEL DIRECTOR
  Angus Clark, pays tribute to
  Derek Williams, senior manager
  in the personnel department,
  who died recently:
  ' D e r e k Williams died in
  January after suffering an illness
  which lasted just over a year....

• Branch opening—Pinner
  06

  PINNER
  An appropriately unassuming new shop
  front has appeared on the High Street of
  Pinner Village. But beyond the olde
  worlde entrance proclaiming J Sainsbury
  in unfamiliar black and white there lies
  an ultra modern...

• Branch opening—Uxbridge
  06

  UXBRIDGE
  UXBRIDGE
  Opening date: 2 December 1986
  Address: York Road, Oxbridge
  Opened by: Area director, Dino Adriano
  Manager: Allan Roberts
  Staff: 311 (105 new jobs)
  Sales area: 32,830 sq ft
  Car park: 428 spaces Pupils from...

• Branch opening—Crayford
  08

  CRAYFORD
  OPENING DATE:
  Homebase — 27 November 1986
  Supermarket — 2 December 1986
  Address: Stadium Way, Crayford, Kent
  OPENED BY:
  Homebase — General manager, Dennis Males
  Supermarket — Deputy chairman and
  managing...

• Ashford
  09

  Ashford has moved up a league thanks to
  a major extension. With minimum
  disruption to customers the store closed
  for three days only before reopening on
  December 4 w i th a sales area half as
  large again as it was...

• Homebase opening—Wakefield
  10

  The Ugly Sisters, Prince
  Charming and Baron Hardup
  were among the first
  customers at Wakefield's
  new Homebase which
  opened just before
  Christmas. 1 Philip Myers pulls
  a cracker! The
  pantomime
  characters came
  along from...

• GOOD NEIGHBOURS TO THE AGED
  11

  GOOD NEIGHBOURS TO THE AGED
  COMMUNITY GROUPS for the elderly have had an extra special Christmas due to
  grants from the company's Good Neighbour Scheme. A total of £50,000 was given to 150 groups throughout the country in
  time...

• JS Goes to School
  12

  The winners of this year's Sainsbury's
  Retail Business Challenge 1986 attended a
  presentation in London on December 2.
  Pictured left to right: Grant Furner, YTS
  trainee, Sainsbury's, Taunton; Colin Harvey,
  South Western area...

• SAINSBURY'S Choir of the Year Competition
  14

  SAINSBURY'S Choir of the Year Competition
  THE SAINSBURY'S Choir of the Year
  Competition is now a mature animal which
  uses its four years' experience to accomplish a
  staggering feat of organisation. With a record
  13,000...

• LET THE Show GO ON
  16

  LET THE Show GO ON
  JS IS TO SPONSOR THE NATIONAL
  YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN
  AND THE NATIONAL THEATRE STUDIO
  IN 1987.
  Simon Sainsbury, chairman of the Sainsbury's
  Arts Sponsorship Committee, made the
  announcement at a...

• News of the Macmillan fund
  17

  JS does it for MACMILLAN • Staff from Lewes Road made
  a bit of a show of themselves
  recently.
  Not only did they have a
  sponsored pub crawl around
  Brighton, but, as you can see,
  they all dressed up just to make
  themselves...

• News in brief
  18

  news IN BRIEF
  THREE YEAR OLD David
  Metcalf is safe in the hands of
  Welephant, Crosby firemen's
  latest recruit. He's the elephant
  fire-fighting mascot who arrived
  in the car park of the Crosby
  store with the fire...

• NEW LINES
  23

  NEW LINES innovate
  between dittej ^ ^
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  segments h
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  available from
  branches. col(j
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  Gammon i- and
  consists ol 8»i ,n g 0t
  coarsely...

• Appointments
  24

  Appointments
  Martin Bowden, formerly deputy
  manager at Watford, has been
  a p p o i n t e d m a n a g e r of
  Aylesbury.
  John Brackett, formerly manager
  of Kingsland Road, has
  been appointed manager of
  Rayleigh Weir.
  David...

• FRED EYRE
  24

  FRED EYRE, manager, invoice
  passing, at Streatham, retired in
  June after 38 years of service
  and not 30 as stated in the
  November Journal.
  He spent almost all of his 38
  years in accounts mainly on
  invoicing passing and...

• Long service
  24

  Long service
  Alan Atkinson, freezer centre
  manager at Leatherhead, has
  completed 25 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company at Hook and then
  worked in several other stores
  including Tolworth, North
  Cheam and...

• Obituary
  24

  Obituary
  Ann Aplin, part time order office
  clerk at Reading Homebase,
  died suddenly on December 13,
  aged 47.
  She had been with the company
  for one and a half years.
  Olive Cain, typing supervisor
  at Streatham office,...

• Retirements
  24

  Retirements
  Harry Bastable, warehouseman
  at Hove, has retired after 34
  years with JS.
  He joined the company at
  Church Street, Hove, where he
  remained until its closure in
  1966. He then transferred to the
  current Hove...

• Bert Hagger — a man who looked after his own
  25

  Bert Hagger — a man who looked after his own
  'AT FIRST I was concerned
  about just how I would fill my
  time in retirement after 41 years at
  JS — most of the time in a senior
  position. But in fact I'm never
  bored. 1 find...

• Feedback
  25

  FEEDBACK
  Card opens
  memories
  From A. H. Gibbs, veteran,
  Worthing.
  I was very interested on receiving
  my copy of the Journal and
  the Christmas card. The card
  brought back memories to me.
  In 1928 I was an assistant at...

• Panels of posterity
  26

  Panels of posterity
  Blackfriars staff
  making a quick
  visit to the photocopying
  room in
  Wakefield House
  basement may be forgiven for
  pausing a few moments to inspect a
  permanent display of historical
  photographs which is...

• SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 1986
  27

  SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 1986
  Results-runners up LAST MONTH we published
  the winning photographs
  from our annual competition.
  They were spectacular
  but there were also some
  wonderful runner up...