'JS Journal', March 1995

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• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES
  TEXAS UPDATE
  125 BIRTHDAY
  CELEBRATIONS
  NANTWICH OPENING
  2-5 & 9
  WRITELINES 10/11 & 27
  SENIOR MANAGERS
  CONFERENCE REPORT 12/13
  NEW CORPORATE
  DESIGN 14/15
  CLASSIC COLA SPONSORS
  ENGLISH BASKETBALL...

• Frontline
  02

  Smile, you're on television
  JSTV is coming to a screen near you! Filming for
  tlie new video magazine lias just been completed.
  The 12 minute programme will feature staff
  surveys, the role of the buyer and enough
  fascinating...

• Greek classic - with a twist of lime
  02

  Greek classic - with a twist of lime
  Winner Maria, front, with
  judges, left to right: David
  Abbott, Anthony Rees,
  Thane Prince, Josceline
  Dimbleby and Wendy
  Godfrey. Tunbridge Wells
  customer Maria
  Lemont has won
  £5,000...

• Careers advice from Marcia? Look in The Mirror
  03

  Careers advice from Marcia? Look in The Mirror
  A profile of personnel
  manager Marcia Hatton-
  Hughes' job occupied a
  half page of the Daily
  Mirror careers supplement
  on February 23, and
  the store's staff were not
  slow to...

• December's Hamper Competition
  03

  Christmas may seem like a
  long time ago but we can now
  announce the winner of
  December's Hamper Competition.
  First prize of a £150
  hamper went to Diane Watts
  at Bretton JS and £35
  hampers went to Ian Bignell at
  head...

• From hotline to hotplate
  03

  From hotline to hotplate
  The Cookery Roadshow
  began in Edinburgh on
  March 6 and ended its
  journey eight venues later
  in London on March 17.
  Over 6,500 tickets were
  available, through a
  special hotline, to people
  keen to...

• Limiting vision helps staff to see
  03

  Limiting vision helps staff to see
  Leeds customer services
  manager Sarah Huggett
  (right) and Colin Treacher's
  district training
  officer Joanna West find
  out what it is like to have
  tunnel vision and blurred
  vision - two...

• Strong on clear labelling
  03

  Cheese strength has
  received the wine sweetness
  treatment. Packaged
  cheese will now have a
  number between 1 and 5
  indicating the strength of
  the taste, where 5 indicates
  a very strong, highly matured cheese. The
  numbers...

• Growth industry
  04

  Growth industry
  At the BGLA in Birmingham are (left to right) produce supplier Roy Stanley, Bob Hilborn of primary agriculture, potato buyer
  John Maylem and Louise Piatt of product public relations. The NEC exhibition gave
  an...

• Research unit thanks 'walking miracle'
  04

  Research unit thanks 'walking miracle'
  Joint managing director
  David Quarmby met up
  with incredibly
  successful fundraiser
  David Paterson at the
  Bone and Joint Research
  Unit at Royal London
  Hospital on January 4.
  They were...

• Savacentres are all heart
  04

  Savacentres are all heart
  Ken Barden (kneeling right) with his team of telephone
  operators outside the television studio on London's South
  Bank. Were the stars out that
  night? They were indeed.
  We're talking about the
  Sky...

• APPOINTMENT
  05

  APPOINTMENT
  DAVID EMPSON has joined
  the board of Savacentre as
  director of non-food
  trading, reporting to IVIike
  Broomfield. David joins
  the Sainsbury Group from
  Courtaulds.

• Land lovers
  05

  That's me up there!
  Katrina McCormick is
  proud as punch that her
  image is being seen all
  over the country.
  She was chosen as the
  model to appear in a poster
  advertising the wonderful
  work of the charity
  Landlife....

• News in brief
  05

  News in brief
  i
  The Licensing (Sunday
  Hours) Bill received its
  second reading in the
  House of Commons on
  February 15. If the Bill
  becomes law supermarkets
  will be allowed to sell
  alcohol throughout their
  opening hours on...

• Happy Birthday to us
  06

  Happy Birthday to us
  The RPrty may be over but it was fun while it
  lastea. There were four weel(s of
  |elebrations to marit the end of S^sbury's
  t25th anniversary. Customers entered a
  ompetition to win a totai 125 cars...

• Branch opening—Nantwich
  08

  Nantwich
  SUPERMARKETS The management team.
  NANTWICH
  Opening date: February 14, 1995
  Address: Middlewich Road,
  Cheshire
  Opened by: Deputy chairman
  Tom Vyner
  Store manager: Mark Colley-Davis
  Project manager: Brian...

• Butchers bring back pride and passion
  09

  Butchers bring back pride and passion
  The first eight members of the Sainsbury Guild of
  Butchers received their certificates at Blackfriars on
  February 14. They have been training
  since September last year
  on a course jointly...

• Texas will take Homebase to number two
  09

  Texas will take Homebase to number two
  Homebase is set to become the UK's second largest
  DIY retailer, following the acquisition of Texas
  Homecare. The newly enlarged company will have a
  10% share of the market - a figure...

• Writelines
  10

  NEST EGGS CRACKING?
  John Worledge, veteran,
  Northampton
  Every month in our JS
  Journal we note the
  number of people who
  have reached 25 and 40
  years' service. Are we to
  see this completely disappear
  in years to come,
  or...

• Building a world class business
  12

  Building a world class business
  1995 Senior Management Conference
  A total 227 members of senior management gathered for a one day conference at the
  Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on February 6.
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  1
  1
  Five...

• Design for selling
  14

  SAINSBURY'S
  It's orange, it's blue, it's cream and it's everywhere - it's JS's
  new corporate design standard. No-one at JS could have failed to notice the new
  uniforms and the lorry livery, whilst the new
  colours have also...

• NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
  16

  NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
  Sainsbury's is sponsoring sport for the
  first time ever. The deal supporting
  English basketball is worth £115,000
  and has earned a further award of
  £75,000 from the government. What has its roots in...

• Little performers
  18

  Little performers
  ADVERT YOl) MAY WELL ASK 'HOW DOES A BABY
  UJGGLE?', THE JOURNAL FOUND THE ANSWER IS
  Our new TV ad for the Performers
  range of own-brand nappies uses some
  of the most up-to-date trick
  photography and image...

• GREEN SCENE
  19

  GREEN SCENE
  DTgepTira^ Urirtiih WtfBTcmrrsgW^iTW appears to one o f pure
  destruction. A machine that wouldn't have looked out of place A|^.
  the set of Aliens systematically fells, strips and cuts up a pine tr^^^
  But rather...

• Making the right connections
  20

  Countdown to Phoneday has begun. The JS
  Journal, with the help of BT, is preparing for
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  In just a few week
  time, on the morning "'[ -
  of Sunday 16 April,
  every UK area...

• All aboard the Penny Back bus
  21

  All aboard the Penny Back bus
  Judith Chalmers accepts the
  keys for the New Horizons bus
  from district manager David
  Mellows-Facer. Senior manager
  of Compaid Betty Howell and
  some junior future passengers
  then gratefully...

• Challenge Nicky
  21

  Challenge Nicky
  Pull a 15 ton jet along the runway
  at RAF Coltishall, raise enough
  money to build a playground, and
  plan, design and build that
  playground in 25 days. Would
  you rise to such a challenge?
  Nicky Anderson, who...

• Sign up for a safer road
  21

  Sign up for a safer road
  A revolutionary new pedestrian
  crossing has made going to
  school a little safer for children
  near Pepper Hill thanks to a
  significant financial contribution
  by JS. The speed control zone
  outside the...

• Store and council work together for residents
  21

  Store and council work together for residents
  Pete Feenan shows off the Food
  Safety Award. On the right are
  the Mayor and Mayoress of the
  borough and opposite is Carmel
  Moran of local authority liaison. Wandsworth has...

• All in the family
  22

  All in the family
  It's not every family or every store
  that can boast three generations of
  Sainsbury employees in one
  branch. But Hitchin can!
  Jean Edgar began working at
  Hitchin in 1981. Ten years later,
  her daughter Kim...

• Fred's been at work for 74 years
  22

  Fred's been at
  work for 74 years
  Is Fred Owen, at 88, the oldest
  member of staff?
  Fred has worked in DIY at
  Homebase Guildford since 1990.
  Jackie Parrott, personnel training
  manager, says he is 'always
  willing to help...

• Slice of Sainsbury's is sent to war zone
  22

  Slice of 3ainsbury's is sent to war zone
  Serving in Bosnia provides
  few home comforts. When
  JS senior fish buyer Nicola
  Wall's brother-in-law, Major
  David Shouesmith, set off
  for a six month tour covering
  Christmas she...

• Stanway's big bucks
  22

  Andy Newborough (centre) with
  winners (right) and food company
  representatives.
  Stanway's dry goods deputy
  Andy Newborough is used to
  seeing plenty of cheques go
  through his busy store but few
  are given to customers,...

• Getting a handle on coffee prices
  23

  Have you noticed how the price of a refreshing cup of coffee has soared in the last year?
  The 50% rise in the retail price of Sainsbury's instant coffee may have been hard to
  swallow, but the commodity market price actually...

• Jurassic car park
  23

  Jurassic car park
  Dinosaurs came to Lyons Farm
  Worthing car park on February 2.
  The event was organised by
  Worthing Borough Council to
  promote the Department of the
  Environment's 'Wasting Energy
  Costs the Earth' campaign...

• Trains now stopping at model store
  23

  Trains now stopping at model store
  Reading has a new JS thanks to
  Woking's Bruce Marsliall. With
  development costs of around £5,
  no planning permission required
  and negligible running costs, it
  would surely be the envy of...

• LET THE EGG PUNS ROLL
  24

  Forget the old advice not to put
  all your eggs in one basket and
  get ready for an egg-stravagant
  Easter!
  The usual range has been
  egg-stended this year to include
  over 40 different types (w/e only
  show a few).
  Prices vary...

• PASTA IN A STIR
  24

  To add to the already expanding range of Italian ready
  meals is a first for the market - stir fry pasta.
  Three Italian inspired creations, Farfalle Pasta v(/ith
  Pesto and Bacon Sauce, Cellentani Pasta with Tomato
  Sauce, and...

• SUBSTANTIAL START
  24

  SUBSTANTIAL START
  The ready meal range is fast
  expanding and new tliis montli
  is Kedgeree.
  This one serving, 300g dish
  is fully microwaveable or can be
  heated in a conventional oven.
  It consists of flaked haddock in
  a bed...

• VITAL ELEMENTS FOR GREAT HAIR
  24

  VITAL ELEMENTS FOR GREAT HAIR
  You can now give your hair a natural tonic with a new range of
  shampoos that don't cost the earth. These are for customers who are
  bored with fruit extract shampoos and don't fancy the Idea of...

• FAST FOOD EVEN FASTER
  25

  FAST FOOD EVEN FASTER
  Next time that craving hits you for
  a MacWimpyKing burger you need
  only go so far as the freezer with
  the new range of JS
  microwaveable burgers.
  The three new microwave
  meals from the frozen...

• FIRST AMONG ANTIPASTOS
  25

  FIRST AMONG ANTIPASTOS
  Add a little Italian authenticity to your pasta with new Antipasto Mixed
  Peppers in Tomato Dressing. This combination of cooked cubes of
  yellow and red capsicum peppers, real Italian sauce and onions...

• IT'S GREAT BUT IT WON'T LAST
  25

  IT'S GREAT BUT IT WON'T LAST
  Developed to respond to the growing customer demand for
  improved quality and freshness, the new Farmhouse Cakes are
  made with simple, fresh ingredients you would use at home.
  The cakes come in six...

• RAISE THEM PROPERLY
  25

  RAISE THEM PROPERLY
  Ideal for the keen
  horticulturist or novice
  gardener, the new Homebase
  propagation range has
  something to give every seed
  or seedling a head start.
  The trays have been
  designed to meet the
  requirements...

• SSA OFFERS
  26

  SAINSBURY'S STAFF ASSOCIATION
  Tel: 01719217227
  SOIVIETHING>i
  Enough of the boasts of the one that got away, this
  angling competition will sort fact from fiction. It will be
  held at the prestigious Willow Park and Gold Valley...

• LONG SERVICE
  27

  LONG SERVICE
  BRIAN ELSE, store manager at
  Norwich Homebase, has just
  completed 40 years of
  service.
  Employees who have
  completed 25 years of
  service:
  GEORGINA ALLAN, restaurant
  assistant, Court House
  Green. ALEXANDER...

• OBITUARY
  27

  OBITUARY
  Length of service appears in
  brackets.
  JENNIE ROBERTS, checkout
  operator at Chelmsford
  Central, died suddenly on
  January 2 1 aged 55 (4yrs).
  ANN OSBORN, senior checkout
  assistant at the Bromley
  branch, died in a...

• RETIREMENTS
  27

  RETIREMENTS
  EDWARD RANDALL, senior
  section manager, grocery,
  Walthamstow (13yrs).
  KENNETH CICOGNANI, BWS
  section manager,
  Walthamstow (23yrs). WILLIAM
  SMITH, senior butcher,
  Walthamstow (23yrs). LILIAN
  TAYLOR, checkout...

• GOOD MEN COME TO THE AID OF THE PARTY
  28

  ARCHIVES
  GOOD MEN COME TO
  THE AID OF THE
  PARTY
  The huge success ofJS's 125 celebrations
  has been aided by the ejforts of three young
  men although none of them will have
  known it! essrs Tupman, Gamble and
  Witchell are the...