'JS Journal', May 1993

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• APPOINTMENTS
  02

  APPOINTMENTS
  BARRY HENDERSON, formerly
  regional development manager In
  property group west, Is appointed
  senior manager in charge of a
  new company, JS Development
  Ltd (see page 4).
  DAVID PENNISTON, development
  surveyor, Is...

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES
  WRITELINES
  BRANCH OPENINGS:
  EAST GRINSTEAD
  WANDSWORTH HOMEBASE
  A BUNCH OF FACTS
  ABOUT BANANAS 10/11
  TRAINING NEWS 12
  GREEN SCENE 13
  CHECK IT OUT - NEWS FROM
  AROUND THE COMPANY 14-16
  COMIC RELIEF...

• Frontline
  02

  Turning over new pages
  We're bigger, bolder, brighter and,
  we liope you'll decide, better.
  Our new size Journal
  represents the first format change
  since 1976 when the former
  tabloid paper became an A4
  magazine. This change...

• Key to Front Page
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  HEMA PATEL, checkouts,
  West Hove.
  DEREK STAPLETON, customer
  service assistant. West Hove.
  CLAIRE BLEWETT, Extra Clioice
  supervisor. Hove Homebase.
  ALAN MATTHEWS,...

• The Magazine has makings of major success
  02

  The Magazine has makings of major success
  April 28 saw the spectacular
  arrival of Sainsbury's The
  Magazine. Customers are
  snapping up the top quality
  magazine with its wonderful
  photography and editorial. As
  we went to...

• JS sets seal on degree partnership
  03

  JS sets seal on degree partnership
  The BA Honours Degree
  Retail Marketing, formulated
  by JS and Manchester
  Metropolitan University,
  has been running for three
  years and the two parties
  have now formally signed
  contract...

• Money will improve facilities for under fives
  03

  Money will improve facilities for under fives
  The country's youngest
  citizens will benefit from a
  £100,000 gift from Sainsbury's
  this year.
  Each Sainsbury's, Savacentre
  and Homebase store
  will be offering a gift of
  £250...

• News in brief
  03

  News in brief
  Haverhill Meat Products, a
  subsidiary company of
  Sainsbury's, changed its
  name to NewMarket Foods
  Limited at the end of
  March. The change will
  reinforce the subsidiary's
  growing independence
  from Sainsbury's...

• Recipe ads recruit new celebrities
  03

  Phillip Schofield
  Recipe ads
  recruit new
  celebrities
  Dennis Healey (Lord
  Healey of Riddlestone,
  CH, MBE) will join the
  growing Sainsbury's 'hall
  of fame' on May 23 when
  he stars in a new celebrity
  recipe ad. Recent stars...

• Record number of veterans reunite
  03

  Record number
  of veterans
  reunite
  Chairman David Sainsbury talks about old times with
  JS veterans on March 29. Retired Sainsbury employees
  came together in
  grand style in March and
  April to reminisce and share
  afternoon...

• JS sets up new development company
  04

  JS sets up new development
  Sainsbury's has established
  a new company, JS
  Developments Ltd, to
  develop surplus land owned
  by JS for non food retail
  use.
  JS owns aroimd 30 sites
  across the country, purchased
  as part of...

• New sponsorship brings art to young people
  04

  New sponsorship brings art to young people
  Sainsbury's major new sponsorship will bring great
  works of art to around 750 secondary schools across
  Britain. The Sainsbury's Pictures
  for Schools scheme,
  launched by Lord...

• Talking shop with farmers
  04

  Talking shop with farmers
  Sainsbury's brought together
  around 50 Midlands
  farmers on April 16 for a
  seminar aimed at fostering
  better understanding
  between supermarkets and
  agricultural suppliers.
  Representatives from...

• Award for serving up FutureCooks
  05

  Award for serving up FutureCooks
  Anna Best and Peta Brown,
  creators of Sainsbury's
  FutureCooks Competition,
  were presented with a
  special award at the 1993
  Glenfiddich Awards ceremony,
  in recognition of the
  enthusiasm...

• High flying promoters
  05

  High flying promoters
  Last year's Sainsbury's
  /British Airways promotion
  has won a Gold Award
  from the Institute of Sales
  Promotion for the best
  consumer promotion run by
  a multiple retailer.
  David Noble, senior
  manager,...

• Masters of marketing
  05

  Masters of marketing
  Two prestigious awards
  were bestowed upon
  Sainsbury's at the ITV's
  Awards for Marketing
  ceremony held at London's
  Royal Lancaster
  Hotel on April 1: Brand of
  the Year (Services) and
  Marketer of the...

• Pizza prize
  05

  Pizza prize
  Sainsbury's was voted
  Most Innovative Pizza
  Store in the 1993 Pizza and
  Pasta Awards.
  The awards are run by
  the Pizza and Pasta
  Association whose members
  come from all comers
  of the industry, from fast
  food...

• Rewards for recruitment advertising
  05

  Rewards for recruitment advertising
  Sainsbury's went to the
  IPA/IPM Recruitment
  Industry Awards in London
  on April 22 to present an
  award and came away
  having received two. The
  annual ceremony recognises
  quality and...

• Writelines
  06

  INCENTIVES AND CHOICES
  Southport staff
  Having just received our
  annual pay rise, it brought
  to our attention yet again
  the anomalies in the
  present pay structure.
  When we have
  achieved the higher rate
  two in our relevant...

• Branch opening—East Grinstead
  08

  Opening date: April 13, 1993
  Address: Brooklands Way, East
  Grinstead, West Sussex
  Opened by: Chairman David
  Sainsbury
  Branch manager: Cliris Buss
  Project manager: John Williams
  Staff: 317 (134 new jobs)
  Sales area: 22,982...

• Homebase opening—Wandsworth
  09

  WANDSWORTH
  The first Homebase opening of 1993 tool< place on St George's
  day and the first customers received an appropriate welcome
  with gifts of English red roses and St George's flags. New
  customers to the store will also...

• Gold Finger
  10

  Gold Finger
  Yellow looks like being this year's colour - the banana does not seem to be
  able to stay out of the headlines.
  Named after the Arabic for finger, 'banan', this slightly curved tropical fruit
  has developed from a...

• ORIENTAL CHICKEN WITH BANANA AND GINGER
  11

  ORIENTAL CHICKEN
  WITH BANANA AND
  GINGER
  Ingredients:
  2 tbsp sunflower oil
  4 boneless, skinless chicken
  breasts
  1 tbsp freshly chopped root
  ginger
  2 shallots or half a small onion,
  finely chopped
  half pint chicken stock...

• The Big Banana Split
  11

  The Big Banana Split
  In December last year British Customs
  officers detained a 53 tonne haul in
  Felixstowe as part of a £1.6m fi-aud. No, not
  the latest drugs haul, but banana
  'laundering'. These 'bent' Latin...

• Logistical conclusion
  12

  Logistical conclusion
  David Ashwood, non
  perishables senior supervisor
  at Hoddesdon depot,
  is the first person in JS to
  pass the supervisory course
  foundations in logistics
  management run by the
  Institute of Logistics...

• NVQ UP FOR 'LADDER OF OPPORTUNITY'
  12

  NVQ UP FOR 'LADDER OF OPPORTUNITY'
  NVQs (NATIONAL VOCATIONAL
  QUALIFICATIONS) HAVE FOR THREE YEARS
  BEEN AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE RETAIL
  TRAINING SCHEME ( R T S ) FOR
  YOUNGSTERS ENTERING J S . NOW THE
  SCHEME IS TO BE EXTENDED....

• Team changes in development
  12

  Team changes in development
  The development division
  has witnessed the end of an
  era with the disbanding of
  the team of clerks of works.
  The JS clerks of works
  were for many years mainly
  responsible for quality
  control of...

• SAINSBURY'S Report of the Financial Year 1992-93
  13

  SAINSBURY'S Report of the Financial Year 1992-93
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  '*0 J
  Results at a Glance
  SALES
  £ millions
  J Sainsbury
  1992
  7,347.8
  1993
  8,276.9^ •M UP
  12.6%
  5444 609.1
  Savacentre
  UP
  11.9%
  257.6 282.8
  OPERATING...

• GREEN SCENE
  23

  GREEN SCENE
  JS WILL LET CUSTOMERS DECIDE
  -R WHALE CULLS PROTEST
  "The pilot whale - a small cetacean,
  /Closer to a dolphin than a whale -
  I made the news last month
  following publicity by
  the Environmental
  r? I n v e s t i...

• Heyford Hill's double donation
  24

  Heyford Hill's double donation
  Joyce (centre) and Jane being presented with their certificates by David Beese,
  deputy branch manager. Heyford Hill will now be doubly
  popular with the local community,
  as two members of staff...

• JS stacks library shelves In schools
  24

  JS stacks library shelves In schools
  < Some of the children at
  Marlborough Lower
  School making good
  use of their new books. L> ach year JS donates over
  £30,000 worth of books to over
  600 schools countrywide through
  the...

• Marathon efforts
  24

  Marathon efforts
  /
  Congratulations to all those who
  ran in the London Marathon.
  Tim Lang and Steve Gotham,
  both from Blackfriars, combined
  their energy and ran the race
  three-legged for charity, in a very
  'staggering' time...

• Tom goes fishing for Tommy
  24

  Tom goes fishing for Tommy
  Tom Ancllff, section manager
  bakery at Bletchley, spent March
  7 sitting on the edge of the Grand
  Union Canal in Milton Keynes
  fishing for Tommy.
  No, Tommy is not a new exotic
  fish; Tommy's...

• A well bread bride
  25

  A well bread bride
  When Janet Pullen, customer
  service section manager at Pepper
  Hill, was married on March 6, little
  did she expect such a 'well bread'
  reception.
  As Janet and her husband
  Shaun Crisp emerged after...

• Ailiss' industrious efforts rewarded
  25

  Ailiss' industrious efforts rewarded
  Alliss Nind, BPM at Arnold, is a
  well known face in Nottingham.
  She combines working at the
  branch with being a school
  governor and a member of the
  North Notts Training and
  Enterprise...

• Holly and Ivy get in training
  25

  Holly and Ivy get in training
  < David Milburn presents the clieque
  to Marjorie Hughes, as Trudy Welsh
  from the Guide Dogs for the Blind
  keeps watch over Holly and Ivy.
  T, he generosity of staff and
  customers at...

• Veronica fills her trophy cupboard
  25

  Veronica fills her trophy cupboard Veronica Rayner, bakery student,
  Pound Lane, has proved herself
  to be an outstanding baker.
  Veronica, who is studying for
  a Craft Catering Diploma at City
  College in Norwich, was...

• And your reporter today...
  26

  And your reporter today...
  Far ieft, Lisa outside Forte Post
  House, Birmingham, and (left)
  being filmed hiring cycles in
  Amsterdam. I ans of the Good Morning
  programme who saw a holiday
  report on Amsterdam, presented
  by...

• Farmyard fun at Langney
  26

  Farmyard fun at Langney
  Langney branch manager Michael
  Torrance and Richard Gay, senior
  deputy manager, made a wish at
  Easter and turned into a rabbit
  and a chicken.
  Staff sponsored them to wear
  the furry animal costumes to...

• St John Ambulance breathes life into Hoddesdon depot
  26

  St John Ambulance breathes life into Hoddesdon depot
  Hoddesdon depot opened its doors
  to the St John Ambulance in March
  when they offered their conference
  room for a training course as part
  of the organisation's 'Breath of...

• MORE COMIC CUTS
  27

  MORE COMIC CUTS
  Well, we know the tomato splats have already
  gone mouldy on Comic Relief, but we had so
  many pictures and stories sent in we just had to
  squeeze out another page.
  KILBURN
  The valiant efforts of...

• HOW PACKAGING BECAME PART OF THE SERVICE
  28

  ARCHIVES
  Pie box lid, 1920s. 1920s tin. H o w PACKAGING
  BECAME PART OF
  THE SERVICE Cliapel Street, Islington, 1890s. Ode to Sainsbury's canned ^
  goods advertising verse, around
  1926. m
  ost- of us take for granted...

• BRIDGE TO EUROPE
  30

  BRIDGE TO EUROPE
  Joe Sivayogan peers inscrutably at the neatly
  fanned playing cards he is clutching close to his
  chest. 'Two hearts', he bids confidently across
  the green baize of the card table. He is playing a
  relaxing game...

• LONG SERVICE
  30

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 25 years' service
  are:
  CHRISTINE AUSTIN,
  administration manager,
  Wolverhampton. ANTHONY
  BALLINGER, returns operative,
  Buntingford depot. JOHN
  BELL, driver, Buntingford
  depot....

• OBITUARY
  30

  OBITUARY
  PAUL BLACKMORE, student.
  South Ruislip, died in a road
  accident on March 28. aged
  18 (3 years). DENISE SNOOK,
  confectioner, Worle, died on
  March 22 after a long illness,
  aged 54 (15 years).

• RETIREMENTS
  30

  RETIREMENTS
  DICK GORDON, reception
  manager, Eastbourne (37
  years). JOHN PLACKETT, driver,
  Buntingford depot (29
  years). STANLEY GINN, driver,
  Buntingford depot (28
  years). PETER LEADER,
  battery room operative,
  Buntingford...

• BABY BOBOLI
  31

  BABY BOBOLI
  Following on from the success of
  Boboli pizzas, JS has introduced
  new Bobolini.
  Bobolini are small pizza bases
  made with olive oil, parmesan
  and mozzarella cheeses, then
  topped with garlic and...

• COOKING UP SOME FUN
  31

  COOKING UP SOME FUN
  JS has discovered through its
  FutureCooks competition that
  many children are keen cooks at
  an early age. Following the
  successful launch of the
  FutureCooks Recipe book, JS has
  produced a new cookery...

• FRUIT PUREES FOR A PURER INDULGENCE
  31

  FRUIT PUREES FOR A PURER INDULGENCE
  The shelves of JS have many
  tempting desserts, but not
  many as healthy as Fruit Puree,
  exclusive to JS.
  The fruit is cooked to bring
  out the flavour, then
  sweetened and thickened....

• GREAT RANGE FOR A SMALL MARKET
  31

  GREAT RANGE FOR A SMALL MARKET
  JS has launched an exciting new range of foods for children aged one to
  four. It contains three products: flavoured milks, fruit juices and biscuits.
  Most flavoured milks are made with skimmed...

• PREHISTORIC PARTY GUEST
  31

  PREHISTORIC PARTY GUEST
  JS has introduced a
  Stegosaurus onto its shelves.
  Unlike other dinosaurs this
  one is a real softy. IVIade of
  sponge cake with buttercream
  and jam filling, it is part of the
  Jane Asher Party Cake...

• THE COMING OF THE WEED KILLERS
  31

  THE COMING OF THE WEED KILLERS
  Homebase's first ever range of
  lawncare products offers
  customers top quality products
  and is excellent value for money
  in comparison with leading
  brands. It is available in easy to
  use mini...

• Alton Towers
  32

  On July 31 and August 1 you
  can enjoy all the spectacular rides at
  Alton Towers for just £7.99 for
  adults, £7.50 for children (under 14)
  and £5.00 for veterans - children
  under four are free. For every ticket
  bought, £1...