'JS Journal', December 1994

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• Contents Page
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  CONTENTS
  "EADLINES . **
  WHAT'S HAPPENING I
  THE MARKET
  WRITELINES i
  BRANCH OPENINGS:
  OLDBURY HOMEBASE
  BIGGLESWADE
  NEWHAVEN
  WHISKY TALKING
  8/9 & 31
  YOUR WINNING POEMS
  PLAY OUR 1994 GA.„
  riN A FOOD HAMPei
  PHOTO...

• Our 3D cover
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  Our 3D cover
  It seems the world has divided into two types of
  people: those who can and those who can't.
  Thousands have been caught by the 3D bug and
  can see with ease the hidden images in the
  magic pictures. Others are still...

• Winning by numbers
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  Winning by numbers
  Ticket sales for the first
  draw of the lottery on
  November 26 vastly
  exceeded expectation. So too
  did the number of jackpot
  winners and there were no
  instant millionaires.
  Winner, Shaun Chapman. Long...

• CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
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  CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
  FROM
  CHAIRMAN DAVID SABSfSBURY
  TO ALL STAFF AND VETERANS OF
  THE SAINSBURY GROUP Best wishes to you all for a very happy
  Christmas and New Year.
  I would like to express my warmest
  thanks for the part...

• Flagship relaunched
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  Flagship relaunched
  The new improved and enlarged flagship Cromwell
  Road store was launched in style on November 17. Journalists check
  out the new Special Selection
  lines (above) and Cookshop (right). Forty food writers came...

• Lorries given new livery
  03

  Over half the fleet of 800
  tractor units and 1,200
  trailers bearing the
  Sainsbury's name have
  been painted in the
  corporate colours.
  The transformation will
  be complete by the middle
  of next year and will cost
  around £2...

• Manager makes £7m profit in half a day
  03

  Manager makes £7m profit in half a day
  Bridgend store manager
  John Hughes made over
  £7 million in half a day to
  reach the final of the
  Supermarketing magazine's
  Store Management
  Team of the...

• Art sale relocates to South Bank
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  Art sale relocates to South Bank
  Sainsbury's sponsored
  the Contemporary Art
  Society Art Market for
  the 11th time in
  November. This year, the
  sale moved from Covent
  Garden to the Royal
  Festival Hall Galleries on
  the South...

• Hearts & Flowers in Hertfordshire
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  Hearts & Flowers in Hertfordshire
  A special Valentine offer for romantic souls is
  being offered by Fanhams Hall for the weekend of
  February
  U, 1995. Arrive at Fanhams
  Hall on Saturday,
  February 11, at 4pm
  for afternoon...

• It's freshers at Sainsbury's
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  It's freshers at Sainsbury's
  Applications are now
  being taken for Sainsbury's
  Vacation Training
  and Scholarship scheme.
  It is open to all second
  year students working for
  JS and studying any
  degree. It is an 'earn as
  you...

• Trade Marks Act defines the shape of things to come
  04

  Trade Marks Act defines the shape of things to come
  A new Trade Marks Act
  which came into force on
  October 31 permits the
  registration of sounds,
  smells and shapes of products. The new
  legislation gives brand
  owners greater...

• A case of wine post haste
  05

  A case of wine post haste
  The Wine Direct scheme
  for home delivery of JS
  wines by the case has
  been extended nationwide
  following the continuing
  success of offers in-
  Sainsbury's The Magazine.
  Customers may
  choose from 68...

• APPOINTMENTS
  05

  APPOINTMENTS
  David Quarmby
  DAVID QUARMBY, joint
  managing director, joins
  the board of Savacentre
  and will take over from
  Tom Vyner as chairman in
  January.

• CORRECTION
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  CORRECTION
  Now let's clear up any
  confusion. We referred in
  the October Journal to the
  manager of Newbury as
  Mike Salmon. He is in fact
  Mark Salmon, contrary to
  our correction in the
  November issue which
  restated he was...

• Director receives OBE
  05

  Director receives OBE
  The Queen pinned an
  OBE medal to the lapel of
  store format director Peter
  Ibbotson on November 15.
  We announced in the
  July Journal that Peter had
  been awarded the medal in
  the Queen's...

• News in brief
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  News in brief
  The Chancellor of the
  Exchequer Kenneth Baker
  in his Budget statement of
  November 29 raised the
  duty on a litre of petrol by
  2.5p. Ten pence is added
  to the price of a packet of
  20 cigarettes bringing...

• Market place
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  Meet the department which provides the eyes and
  ears for the company on a number of vitai subjects.
  Financial appraisai is a small but talented team which
  analyses a wealth of information and helps the
  company's decision...

• Writelines
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  SAINSBURY'S HAT TRICK
  Lewis Benjamin,
  customer at Leicester
  I made a paper hat for
  Rhianna, a small and
  cheeky visitor, and her fun
  on wearing it was so
  infectious I reached for
  my camera.
  It wasn't until the film
  was...

• Branch opening—Biggleswade
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  BIGGLESWADE
  Opening date: 8 November 1994
  Address: Bells Brook,
  Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
  Opened by: Joint managing
  director David Quarmby
  Store manager: Mike Zwager
  Project manager: John Williams
  Staff: 238 (169 new...

• Branch opening—Newhaven
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  NEWHAVEN
  Opening date: 15 November 1994
  Address: The Drove, Newhaven,
  East Sussex
  Opened by: Joint managing
  director David Quarmby
  Store manager: Andrew Major
  Project manager: Keith Butler
  Staff: 300 (270 new staff)
  Sales area:...

• Homebase opening—Oldbury
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  OLDBURY
  Opening date: 14 October 1994
  Address: Oldbury Green Retail Park,
  Oldbury Ringway, West Midlands
  Opened by: Paul Shoemaker,
  regional manager Northern area
  Store manager: Andy Brough
  Project manager: Neil...

• A DROP OF Christmas spirit
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  A DROP OF Christmas spirit
  What could be more idyllic than sitting
  in front of a roaring fire with a wee
  dram of whisky warming yom* insides?
  But what makes this simple grain and
  water brew so special? This year - the
  500th...

• JS JOURNAL POETRY COMPETITION
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  JS JOURNAL POETRY COMPETITION
  If reading your entries to the Journal's poetry competition
  reminded us of anyttiing, it was of tlie need to take time out, to
  escape from the hullabaloo of modern living and refresh our
  jangled...

• LET'S GO ROUND AGAIN - PLAY TO WIN A FESTIVE FEAST
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  LET'S GO ROUND AGAIN - PLAY TO WIN A FESTIVE FEAST...

• Photo competition results
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  Photo competition results
  Sporting lives
  1st prize
  STEPHEN WARRELL
  Deputy area systems installation, Central and Western area office MARY MITCHELL
  Grocery assistant,
  Sheffield Savacentre. Meet Jo Laycock. She is picture...

• Christmas Wonderland
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  TURKEY TALK
  The number of turkeys sold by Sainsbury's over
  Christmas is approximately equal to the weight of:
  A) Six blue whales
  B) 50 herds of African elephants
  C) 300 Sumo wrestlers
  DECK THE (SAVACENTRE) HALLS
  How much...

• PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL MANKIND
  22

  PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL MANKIND
  LIZ DUFFY
  general assistant, Edinburgh Savacentre
  'I wish all the children who benefit from the
  Edinburgh "Sick Kids" appeal would get
  better. There's a lot of terminally ill
  children in the...

• Beeston's best
  24

  Beeston's best
  Beeston's staff restaurant has
  won Nottinghamshire's first
  Healthy Living award.
  According to restaurant
  manager Melanie Allden, a lot
  of the hungry staff enjoy the
  healthy meals she cooks
  without even...

• Giving it their best shot
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  Rhyl's sharp shooters traded their
  SABRE guns for the real thing and
  swapped their JS blues for Barbour
  jackets to dominate the second
  annual district clay pigeon shoot.
  The artificial pigeons, rabbits
  and pheasants didn't...

• Staff with a century of service
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  Jean, Pam, Rose and Carol (I to r)
  have 103 years' service between
  them.
  Four staff at Derby JS in the Eagle
  Centre so impressed the local
  Derby Evening Telegraph with
  their amazing milestone of 103
  years' service between...

• These boots were made for walking!
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  These boots were made for walking!
  Swansea's security officer
  Graham Ivett (left) gives Paul a
  leg up on his return journey. After losing a family member and
  a close friend to cancer, DIY
  warehouse manager at...

• Peak of fitness
  25

  Peak of fitness
  Branch operations' Sharon
  Jenkins and Biggleswade
  manager Mike Zwager climbed
  the combined height of over two
  miles when they scaled the
  tallest mountains in England,
  Scotland and Wales as part of
  the...

• RED DWARF WINNERS
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  RED DWARF WINNERS
  Congratulations to the tnreie
  smegheads who correctly
  answered the question in the
  October issue: Chris Barrie
  plays Arnold Rimmer in the Red
  Dwarf series. Redhill's
  Rosemary Wallace wins the
  first prize...

• WHEEL OF FORTUNE,
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  LIFELINES
  |_WHEEL OF FORTUNE, Many of us have heard of Rotary
  Clubs but few know what they are
  all about. District security manager
  in the Northern area Fred Carlisle
  recently became president of his
  local St Helens Club and...

• We followed the bear
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  We followed the bear
  CH I LDREN
  I N NEED
  Children in Need was actively supported by
  Sainsbury's in a wide variety of ways. Staff
  members gave up days off and put in many
  extra hours to help raise funds. IVIanagers...

• BLOOMING GOOD PRESENTS
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  Most of the flower beds and
  trees outside have shed their
  flowers and leaves but you can
  always rely on the Poinsettia to
  provide a burst of colour at this
  time of year.
  The Poinsettia is famous for
  its bright red...

• CLEARLY GOOD FOR YOU
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  CLEARLY GOOD FOR YOU
  You do it every year: stuff
  yourself on turkey and Christmas
  pudding tlien feel desperate for
  something light and healthy to
  drink. JS has just the thing - new
  Free and Clear soft drinks.
  Totally...

• CREATE A NEW LOO
  28

  CREATE A NEW LOO
  it's nearly New Year
  and time for a
  change. Where
  better to start than in
  the bathroom?
  Recently launched
  at Homebase is a
  new range of
  bathroom
  accessories, ideal for
  turning the humble
  smallest room'...

• STICKY FINGERS
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  STICKY FINGERS
  Feeling harassed with the Christmas
  season? Take some time out to
  indulge yourself and try one (or all!)
  of four delectable and delicious new
  desserts.
  Daringly devious are the two
  sticky toffee desserts -...

• ACTIVE SERVICE FOR HAIR
  29

  There's a new product for anyone
  lacking a little lustre. Sainsbury
  b5 Active range of shampoos,
  conditioners and 2-ln-l products
  have been created for normal or
  permed/dry/damaged hair types.
  All contain panthenol, a...

• SOUP CAN DO ANYTHING
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  SOUP CAN DO ANYTHING
  Just in time for those cold winter
  nights is a treat to warm your
  tummy, while not making a hole
  in your pocket - Sainsbury's
  condensed soups.
  Available In three popular
  flavours - tomato, mushroom...

• WORLD OF WHISKY
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  WORLD OF WHISKY
  The malt whisky market is now
  growing each year and consumers
  are discovering the enormous
  range available not just from the
  hundreds of traditional distilleries
  in Scotland (see pages 12-14 of
  this issue)...

• THE DELIVERY MUST GET THROUGH
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  ARCHIVES
  A JS car passes through Parliament Square
  during the great smog that descended over
  London in December 1952.
  Q he first Sainsbury's delivery vans
  were Leyland trucks sold off by the
  RAF at the end of the First World...