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  • Contents Page 02

    Page 2-3, 8
    News
    Page 4-5
    Branch opening
    — Belgrave Road
    Homebase opening
    — Southgate
    Page 6-7
    Fast food — the story of JS ready meals
    Page 9-15
    Senior management conference with pull out guide to top executives
    Page...

  • Data services appointment 02

    Data services appointment
    MARTYN HEALY JOIf
    the company on February 16, a
    data services manager, reporting
    to Alan Jacobs.
    He replaced Graham Paxton
    who left JS at the end of
    January.
    He will be senior manager
    responsible...

  • FRONTLINE 02

    FRONTLINE
    THE JOURNAL is back to full
    strength (meet the new editorial
    assistant on page eight) and
    walking tall with a seasonal
    spring in its step.
    Here's hoping its readership is
    in a similarly perky mood,
    because we...

  • Golden wedding gift to the arts 02

    Golden wedding gift to the arts
    SIR ROBERT and Lady Sainsbury, through their Art
    Trust, are making a grant of £4.5 million to the
    University of East Anglia. The gift marks their Golden
    Wedding anniversary in March.
    In 1973...

  • WOMAN at WORK 02

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  • Driving ambition achieved at Charlton 03

    Driving ambition achieved at Charlton
    CHARLTON DEPOT is proud
    to announce it now has a brace
    of HGV driving instructors.
    On February 11, driver,
    Jimmy Ross received his instructor's
    certificate from depot manager
    Bernard...

  • Face lift for sea hero's home 03

    Face lift for sea hero's home
    THE HOME of one of Britain's
    maritime heroes is to be refurbished
    with the aid of a donation
    from JS.
    The National Trust has
    launched The Sir Francis
    Drake Heritage Appeal which
    aims to raise...

  • Homebase holiday club 03

    Homebase holiday club
    HOMEBASE WILL BE
    treating hundreds of customers
    to some holiday spending money
    this year.
    A promotion aimed at
    building customer loyalty will be
    running until March 15. The
    scheme is known as...

  • JS helps with high aspirations 03

    JS helps with high aspirations
    Lord Tryon, draw winner Brian Ford and Michael Goodman. SALISBURY STORE AND
    Sainsbury's Charitable fund
    have contributed over £4,000
    towards Salisbury Cathedral
    Spire Appeal.
    The Cathedral's...

  • Lesson in home economics 03

    Lesson in home economics
    JANE BABBAGE, home economist
    for the south west, has been
    speaking to a younger audience
    recently.
    She is in the middle of a series
    of demonstrations to students
    from schools in the south....

  • Branch opening—Belgrave Road 04

    BELGRAVE ROAD The first store to open in 1987 was Belgrave Road in Leicester. But first
    the snow had to be cleared. Mountains were piled up behind the store to
    leave a clear way for enthusiastic customers. The Belgrave Road...

  • Homebase opening—New Southgate 04

    NEW SOUTHGATE Steve Shepherd welcomed flocks of DIY and gardening
    enthusiasts to his new store on February 5. Conveniently sited
    just off the North Circular, New Southgate looks set for success 1. Customers were drawn to...

  • 'READY WHEN YOU ARE' 06

    IN RECENT YEARS
    the UK has seen
    several changes in
    society which have
    opened up a whole
    new consumer market.
    The changes cover a range of lifestyles: the
    Government report 'Social Trends' showed a
    continuing rise in female...

  • More donations to neighbours 08

    More donations to neighbours
    Featured here are more community groups for the elderly
    which have benefited from the JS Good Neighbour
    Scheme. It involved the donation of a total of £50,000 to
    150 groups throughout the country....

  • Smoother Systems 08

    Smoother Systems
    ON THE RETIREMENT of Len
    Payne, the company systems and
    data processing departments
    were merged.
    Alan Jacobs, departmental
    director, data processing and
    systems, explained why:
    'In the past we worked...

  • Transfer deal for Dominic 08

    Transfer deal for Dominic
    HOYILBASL'S LOSS is the
    Joumars gain as Dominic
    Long gives up salary, benefits
    and share options to become
    editorial assistant on the
    Journal.
    No, he isn't working for
    nothing, those arc just a...

  • Senior management conference with pull out guide to top executives 09

    EASTBOURNE
    - A C O M P E T I T I V E C O N F E R E N CE
    IMPROVING THE COMPETITIVE EDGE was t h e t i t l e of the
    Senior Managers' Conference which t o o k place in Eastbourne
    on January IS and 26. Directors gave reports to...

  • PENSIONS ARE PUTTING ON WEIGHT 13

    PENSIONS ARE PUTTING ON WEIGHT
    The new improved JS Pension and Death Benefit Scheme
    means that everyone will be better off in the future. Thanks to investment paying off particularly well the scheme
    was recently valued as...

  • Design your own CHRISTMAS CARDS 14

    THIS MAY BE the season of
    lambs and daffodils but as we
    launch the JS Journal Christmas
    Card Competition we'd like you
    to be thinking of Santa and
    sleighbells.
    Our competition is divided
    into two sections — 11 and...

  • FAMILY DAY will be Forties style 14

    FAMILY DAY will be Forties style
    GET SOME IN! Take yourselves
    back to National Service
    days and report for duty at the
    Griffin Club, Dulwich, on
    Sunday, June 7. Family Day,
    this year, will be steeped in the
    forties to...

  • HOMEBASE AS HOME WRECKER! 15

    IT WOULD seem that the
    growing trend for DIY has
    sent shudders through the
    normally tranquil scenes of
    domestic bliss.
    Homebase head office has
    recently received the following
    on a customer comment
    card:
    'I think the...

  • LISA WOODLAND 15

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  • 'Walkies!' 15

    IF ANYONE
    HAD
    said 'walkies!'
    at Harrow
    store on
    February 5,
    • there would
    have been a large exodus.
    On that day the branch
    played host to four guide
    dogs and one 'trainee'
    puppy. They were present
    with their owners...

  • BOUQUET FOR 89th BIRTHDAY 16

    BOUQUET FOR 89th BIRTHDAY
    TOTTENHAM MANAGER.
    Phillip Chapman, said it with
    flowers recently.
    He presented a long standing
    customer a lovely bouquet in
    celebration of her 89th birthday.
    The lady is taken to JS each
    week by...

  • CLOWNS COLLECT CASH 16

    CLOWNS COLLECT CASH
    WHEN NEWPORT WAS
    raising funds for Children
    in Need (JSJ Dec 86), they
    made sure they were dressed
    for the occasion.
    Wearing clown outfits,
    staff rattled their tins in the
    street and, thanks to...

  • THE ARMY 16

    THE ARMY invaded Chertsey recently. In the store's
    car park, the Territorials set up a demonstration of
    radio signals equipment.

  • TOP UP FOR GOOD NEIGHBOURS 16

    TOP UP FOR GOOD NEIGHBOURS
    IN 1986, AS part of the Good
    Neighbour Scheme, Burnley presented
    Brunlea Special Children's
    School with £250 with
    which to buy much needed
    equipment.
    Although the money was a
    welcome...

  • WEDDING CHEERS FROM THE SSA 16

    WEDDING CHEERS FROM THE SSA
    HAPPY COUPLES ARE
    very bubbly this Spring and
    four couples are particularly
    bubbly thanks to ten green
    bottles.
    The bottles are filled with
    champagne and 40 of them
    have been given by the SSA...

  • EASY RIDERS FIND THE GOING GETS TOUGH 17

    HOW DID YOU see out 1986?
    Neil Bruce, dairy buyer, ended the year
    sneaking around a car park in Versailles
    pretending not to be working on his
    motorbike.
    He was making some last minute preparations
    for the 1987 Paris-Dakar...

  • A potted history 19

    Six different styles of bloater jar shown here in chronological order.
    A potted history
    'Take 1121bs boned red herring
    { M M (new season's herring arrive
    ^—^ Aj with us approx Jan).'
    ^ My So began the official JS
    ^r ^p...

  • Feedback 20

    FEEDBACK
    Help for
    handicapped
    From: Audrey Bolton, South
    Norwood
    My colleague and I regularly
    shop in your store with groups
    of mentally handicapped people.
    We have always found your
    staff most helpful and...

  • Long service 20

    Long service
    Peter Brewer, meat manager at
    Bury Park, Luton, has completed
    25 years' service with the
    company.
    He joined JS as a trainee
    butcher at George Street, Luton,
    where he spent ten years before
    transferring to...

  • Obituary 20

    Obituary
    Julie Anderson, health and
    beauty assistant at Haverhill,
    died on December 31, aged 42.
    She had been with the company
    for seven years.
    Brian Butler, driver at
    Basingstoke, died suddenly on
    January 16, aged 44.
    He...

  • Retirements 20

    Retirements
    Edward Gordon, shunter at
    Charlton depot, has retired after
    33 years with the company.
    Benjamin Crouch, leading
    warehouseman at Buntingford
    depot, has retired after 25 years
    service with the company.
    Frederick...

  • NEW LINES 21

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    no^ made...