'JS Journal', August/September 1987

Table of content

• Chairman in pursuit of quality
  02

  Chairman in pursuit of quality
  CHAIRMAN, SIR John Sainsbury,
  was guest of honour at
  Super Marketing magazine's
  1987 Quality Foods Awards,
  held at the Dorchester Hotel.
  Many of the country's leading
  retailers were gathered...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-6
  News
  Page 7
  Rayleigh Weir Homebase opens
  Page 8-9, 18-19
  News in brief
  Page 10-11
  Shareholders gather — the 1987 AGM
  Page 12-14
  How the nurses were helped — almost £300,000 raised for the Macmillan fund
  Page...

• Frontline
  02

  FRONTLINE
  LATEST RECOGNITION of
  JS's fine service came from the
  readers of The Star newspaper
  (last month we told how the
  paper itself gave JS a thumbs up
  for service). The Star's readers
  gave JS more votes than any
  other...

• Jim O'Connor
  02

  JIM O'CONNOR has been
  appointed manager, accounting,
  payroll and personnel systems.
  He will be responsible to John
  Blake for systems development
  in these areas.
  This appointment will also
  enable the data processing...

• Peter Ibbotson to construction director
  02

  Peter Ibbotson to construction director
  CHAIRMAN, Sir John Sainsbury,
  announced in June that
  Peter Ibbotson, chief engineer,
  will succeed Roy Linfield on his
  retirement at the end of this
  year, to become...

• Shares issued one-for-one
  02

  Shares issued one-for-one
  THE COMPANY recently
  announced a one-for-one capitalisation
  issue. This issue has
  not affected the total value of
  holdings either under the profitsharing
  scheme or options held
  under the...

• 'Does the Public Service serve? — the consumer dimension'
  03

  ON JUNE 29, Sir Roy Griffiths, deputy chairman and managing director, gave the fourth
  Redcliffe-Maud Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Does the Public Service serve? — the consumer
  dimension' (see JSJ June 87).
  Sir Roy is...

• J Sainsbury USA Inc is created
  03

  J Sainsbury USA Inc is created
  Robin Whitbread
  Sir John Sainsbury David Sainsbury WITH THE SUCCESSFUL
  completion of JS's tender offer,
  Shaw's has become a wholly
  owned subsidiary of the company's
  US subsidiary, Cheyne
  Inc....

• Sainsbury MP's appointment
  03

  Sainsbury MP's appointment
  TIMOTHY SAINSBURY,
  MP for Hove, has been
  appointed Under Secretary
  of State for Defence
  Procurement.
  The announcement was
  made by the Prime Minister
  on June 24.
  For many years,...

• A right royal party
  04

  A right royal party
  THE OPENING of a new housing
  estate in Islington was celebrated
  with refreshments from
  JS.
  On June 22, the Culpeper
  Development of 67 new homes,
  was opened by Her Royal
  Highness, the Duchness...

• Development in communication
  04

  AS PART of the effort to
  communicate the JS approach to
  new store development, the
  development division has prepared
  two new 'policy' brochures
  and two new videos.
  The brochures outline the
  company's approach to...

• JS will sponsor students
  04

  JS will sponsor students
  HERE'S A FRESH offer from JS — a Sainsbury's
  sponsorship. The company has just launched a new scheme
  which makes it the first retailing company to operate a
  sponsorship scheme for students.
  Students...

• A challenge at the checkouts
  05

  A challenge at the checkouts
  FIFTEEN TO EIGHTEEN
  year old students throughout the
  UK are now hard at work preparing
  their entries for the Sainsbury's
  Retail Business Challenge
  1987.
  These schoolchildren from
  Mansfield High...

• Dashed good fortune
  05

  Dashed good fortune
  HOMEBASE CAUGHT election
  fever in June and customers
  were only too delighted.
  In honour of election day the
  company ran an 11 per cent
  savings special and a chance to
  enter an 11 minute trolley...

• Shopping in the USA
  05

  Shopping in the USA
  Richard
  Gowers (left)
  and David
  Durbin
  rehearse
  their
  goodbyes. LINCOLN'S STORE manager,
  David Durbin, is Supermarketing
  magazine's Supermarket
  Manager of the Year
  1987.
  Archer Road's senior...

• Homebase opening—Rayleigh Weir
  06

  RAYLEIGH WEIR
  Homebase beat Richard Branson on quantity if not on size or speed when
  the Rayleigh Weir Store opened with the Great Homebase Balloon Race.
  That was just one of the family competitions which launched the house...

• Celebrities under hammer
  07

  Celebrities under hammer
  GOING, GOING BUT not
  gone yet! There is still time to
  view the items on offer in the
  celebrities' memorabilia auction
  to be held at the Ladb
  r o k e Lodge H o t e l ,
  Basingstoke on October 11.
  The...

• Fire fighters!
  07

  Fire fighters!
  WHEN KEIGHLEY was extensively
  damaged on June 15, by
  fire in a next door building,
  customers never imagined their
  store would be clean, ship shape
  and fully stocked in time to
  re-open just three days later....

• Fleet Street editor to judge photos
  07

  Fleet Street editor to judge photos
  THE JOURNAL is pleased to
  announce that this year the
  judge of the SSA/JS Journal
  Photographic Competition will
  be Alun John, picture editor of
  The Independent.
  Alun has spent 15 years...

• FIVE GO ALL OUT FOR SICK CHILDREN
  08

  FIVE GO ALL OUT FOR SICK CHILDREN
  FIVE SUSSEX BASED YTS
  trainees visited Great Ormond
  Street Hospital this summer and were given a guided tour of the
  facilities available for treating
  sick children. The visit followed a...

• FRANK FURTHERS FUNDRAISING
  08

  FRANK FURTHERS FUNDRAISING
  WHEN FRANK
  B I S H O P was
  manager at Forest
  Hill, he was the
  driving force behind the store's
  fundraising for Sydenham
  Children's Hospital.
  In just over a year, staff raised
  £5,000 which...

• VETERAN IS HONOURED WITH MBE
  08

  VETERAN IS HONOURED WITH MBE
  VETERAN LESLIE BATEMAN
  has good reason to be
  giving the thumbs up—he was
  awarded the MBE in the
  birthday honour's list for his
  services in the community.
  For 27 years, Leslie was
  honorary...

• BUYERS BATTLE IT OUT IN THE WATER
  09

  BUYERS BATTLE IT OUT IN THE WATER
  Bob Cooper, p|L
  lelt, presents ^JK ^ ^ i
  the trophy to IS
  Tudor Evens. Bp -v « pe^^^B
  IB
  The webbed wonders — wonkers and whalers with judges.
  THE WATER BABIES from
  head office took to...

• JEAN IS ALL HEART
  09

  JEAN IS ALL HEART
  ON JUNE 21
  Jean Harrison
  from Putney
  branch set a
  c o u r a g e o u s
  example to all by
  cycling the 56 miles from London
  to Brighton in aid of the
  British Heart Foundation.
  Jean who lives in...

• TOUR DE FUND RAISING
  09

  TOUR DE FUND RAISING
  MORE THAN 80 members of
  staff at Chase Lane took to the
  saddle recently in order to raise
  funds for a local boy who is
  paralysed.
  They took turns in a
  marathon cycle which ran for
  four days.
  Their...

• Meeting in the City
  10

  Meeting in the City
  Far left: Nigel
  Matthews with
  David Scholey,
  chairman of
  the Mercury
  International
  Group which
  Includes J$
  merchant
  bankers, SG
  Warburg and
  Stockbrokers to
  JS, Rows and
  Pitman.
  Left:...

• £295,000 for the nurses
  12

  AFTER A YEAR of fundraising you've broken the record and
  burst through the target. Never before have staff set
  themselves such a high target — £200,000 — and never before
  has a target been exceeded by such a long way. HRH...

• Star trekking on the Great North Way
  14

  Star trekking on the Great North Way
  SPONSOR Sainsbury's own star
  walker in the Variety Club's Star
  Walk on September 20.
  SSA functions organiser, Bill
  Allen, a Variety Club barker, will
  be walking side by side with...

• More variety for vegetarians
  15

  ALTHOUGH COMPRISING
  around just three
  per cent ol" the population,
  vegetarians arc
  steadily increasing in
  number it is therefore
  a very important consumer
  group.
  Says Wendy Godfrey, consumer
  marketing manager:...

• Shopping with Punch — a lighthearted view of Saturday mornings in JS
  16

  If you want quails' knee-caps
  marinaded in skylarks' tears,
  you are likely to find them
  on special offer. They will probably be about
  five feet along the shelf from
  the crystallised rose-petal
  cocktail snax." I s t h e w e e...

• Bin it and win it
  18

  Bin it and win it
  KINGSWOOD BOROUGH
  Council in Bristol has recently
  launched a clean up campaign.
  One of the incentives to local
  residents is a 'bin it and win it'
  competition sponsored by local
  businesses.
  Manager of...

• Bully boys and girls
  18

  THERE'S SOMETHING very
  jolly going on at JS at the
  moment — hockey is becoming
  ever more popular.
  Here are three teams to join
  the ranks of the bully boys and
  girls - Right: Romford Routers
  (Eastern area...

• Far sighted aim
  18

  Far sighted aim
  GLOUCESTER is on target in
  their aim to raise £1,000 for the
  Guide Dogs for the Blind.
  On June 21, a number of staff
  completed a ten mile sponsored
  walk and in doing so raised
  £400.

• A WALK IN BRAMINGHAM PARK
  19

  A WALK IN BRAMINGHAM PARK
  Walkers gather outside the store. BRAMINGHAM PARK staff
  recently walked seven miles in
  aid of a new local hospice.
  Around 50 members of staff,
  their children, and six dogs completed completed
  the...

• FLOATING IN HISTORY
  19

  FLOATING IN HISTORY
  STAFF FROM Chippenham
  went back into history for inspiration
  for their carnival float.
  The theme was 'the battle for
  Stonehenge' and the staff depicted
  three historical episodes—
  the Druids, early Man...

• SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
  19

  SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
  SOMETHING IN THE fresh
  sea air has led to great expectations
  for six ladies from Bournemouth
  branch. They are all
  expecting their first babies
  within three months of each
  other.
  A popular theory for...

• YTS TRIP TO TOWERING INFORMATION
  19

  YTS TRIP TO TOWERING INFORMATION
  AS PART OF their information
  technology studies, nine YTS
  trainees from the West Midlands
  visited the Telecom Tower in
  Birmingham on May 7.
  The studies proved successful
  as, following their...

• Bowling them over in Dulwich
  20

  Bowling them over in Dulwich
  ENGLAND'S MOST English game has
  always figured strongly in the social life of JS
  staff. The earliest team photo in the archives'
  possession is the one above dating from
  1914. Determined...

• Feedback
  21

  FEEDBACK
  Compliments
  off Spike
  From: Spike Milligan
  May I compliment whoever was
  responsible for the very fine
  supermarket that Sainsbury's
  has built in Finchley. It's proof
  that buildings can be built in
  sympathy with...

• Appointments
  22

  Appointments
  MAURICE BISHOP, formerly
  manager at Surbiton, has been
  appointed manager of Chiswick.
  Peter Isaac, formerly manager
  at Chislehurst, has been
  a p p o i n t e d m a n a g e r of
  Beckenham.
  Gary Love, formerly...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  ALBERT SANSUM, meat
  manager at Hitchin, has retired
  after 39 years' service with the
  company.
  He spent the last year at
  Hitchin having been meat manager
  at Stevenage for the previous
  28 years.
  Our picture...

• Fifty years of sparking service
  23

  Fifty years of sparking service Left: Jim receives a personal
  thank you from chairman Sir
  John Sainsbury.
  Above: SSA memories — the
  1938 boat trip to Margate. JULY 12 was an historic date
  for Jim Brumwell, district...

• Long service
  23

  Long service
  TED MAYBURY, area project
  manager, South Western area,
  has completed 40 years with JS.
  He joined the company as a
  fitter at Union Street and one
  year later moved to Selsdon. In
  1956 he returned to...

• Obituary
  23

  Obituary
  MARIA ARCHIBALD, senior
  supermarket assistant, Wandsworth,
  died after a long illness
  on July 14, aged 33.
  She had been with the company
  for four years.
  Rosemary Faller, grocery clerk
  at Wigston, died after a...

• Sainsbury's Christmas Collection
  24

  IN the week
  beginning July
  20 three separate
  informal
  viewings were held by the
  public relations department
  t o show the JS
  Christmas collection to the
  press.
  Explains deputy head,
  consumer public relations,
  Jenny...