'JS Journal', March 1997

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• Contents Page
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  Spring is on its way, bringing exciting changes at
  Sainsbury's. This month Dino Adriano takes over as chief
  executive of the supermarket business. And we're now in
  the banking business, having launched Sainsbury's Bank
  in more...

• Dino takes over at the helm
  02

  Dino takes over at the helm
  On 9 March Dino Adriano
  takes over as chief executive of
  the UK supermarket business.
  Dino has been with JS for
  more than 30 years, starting
  as a trainee accountant in
  1964. He held various...

• Joking apart
  02

  Joking apart
  Staff up and down the
  country are polishing their
  red noses and preparing to
  do lots of silly things for Red
  Nose Day on 14 March.
  It's sure to be a great
  excuse for Sainsbury's staff
  and customers to act...

• Sainsbury's fleet is greenest
  02

  Sainsbury's fleet is greenest
  Sainsbury's has been awarded
  the 1996 Britain's Greenest
  Fleet trophy sponsored by
  Vauxhall Motors, in recognition
  of its environmental
  policies. The award was
  accepted by corporate...

• Dream team
  03

  Dream team
  Five Sainsbury's managers
  made a profit of some £14
  million after taking over an
  ailing Italian ice-cream
  company and turning its
  Apollo 99 and Dreamy Delight
  products Into market leaders.
  Well, not exactly......

• Helping to build Futuretown
  03

  Helping to build Futuretown
  Northampton store played host to pupils from Cliftonville
  Middle School when it invited them to lunch recently. The children had been taking
  part in Northampton Council's
  Futuretown Two...

• Popeye would be proud
  03

  Popeye would be proud
  Seventeen-year-old catering
  student Rebecca Lewis is to
  have one of her own recipes
  on bags of Sainsbury's spinach,
  after winning the Gold
  Medal in the Heart of England
  Salon Junior...

• Sainsbury's Bank opens for business
  03

  Sainsbury's Bank
  opens for business
  On 19 February Sainsbury's
  Bank opened for business
  in 244 JS, Homebase and
  Savacentre stores in
  Scotland, the north of
  England and the Midlands. The bank will be rolled out to
  all...

• Second-hand clothes are first-class
  03

  Second-hand clothes are first-class
  Clothing recycling banks at
  27 JS stores have in the last
  year collected some 300
  tonnes of textiles for the
  Salvation Army. In recognition
  of our help, Sainsbury's
  recently received a...

• Homebase raises astronomical sum for charity
  04

  Homebase raises astronomical sum for charity
  Homebase's fundraising
  efforts for 1996 culminated at
  the end of January when
  managing director Ross
  McLaren presented the astronomer
  Patrick Moore with a
  cheque for £179,423...

• News in Brief
  04

  News in Brief
  Fame in the
  Philippines
  We know that just about
  everyone in Britain has heard
  of Sainsbury's - but in the
  Philippines? Wigan store
  manager Gordon Davy sent
  the Journal a copy of The
  Philippine Star, which...

• Ripley wins first JS investors in People Award
  04

  Ripley wins first JS investors in People Award
  Ripley in Derbyshire lias become tlie first JS store to acliieve tlie Investors in
  People Award, thereby beating its target by a good couple of years! The company views...

• Rosemary Thorne to join DfEE
  04

  Rosemary Thorne to join DfEE
  Sainsbury's Group finance
  director Rosemary Thorne
  has been appointed a nonexecutive
  member of the
  Department for Education
  and Employment's management
  board.
  Rosemary is one of the
  UK's most...

• Vouching support for local schools
  04

  Vouching support for local schools
  Since 23 February customers
  at Sainsbury's and Savacentre
  have been picking up on the
  success of last year's Schoolbag
  Scheme with the launch
  of Sainsbury's Equipment for
  Schools 1997...

• A matter of life and death
  05

  A matter of life and death
  They're ordinary members of staff
  who just might be called upon to
  save someone's life.
  They 're Sainsbury's first aiders.
  Jon Carpenter went to watch
  them train In Newcastle last year, three JS...

• Branch opening—Archer Road extension
  06

  Archer Road extension
  Extensions have become a common feature of JS stores, but the project at Archer Road, Sheffield,
  has been our most ambitious yet. The work, due to start last March and finish in November, was
  put back to...

• Branch opening—Melksham
  07

  Melksham
  Melksham is the first new opening this year and the
  second Country Town store - small but perfectly
  formed with an in-store bakery and a deli.
  Wet weather didn't stop an impressive queue
  developing and the store was...

• Assured thing
  08

  Assured thing
  These days, food safety never seems to be out of the
  headlines, particularly when it comes to fresh
  meat. What does Sainsbury 's do to make sure that
  our meat is of the highest quality and that
  standards are...

• Property update
  08

  Property update
  Christmas and the year end brought a flurry of store openings.
  Altogether, 18 stores will have been opened in this financial year, with a
  further 18 planned for 1997/8. Here's the current state of development...

• Surrogate shopping
  09

  Surrogate shopping
  Sainsbury's doesn't envisage a time in the foreseeable future
  when we do all our shopping at home via computer, but our
  research shows that a sizeable number of people would take
  advantage of the chance to...

• Writelines
  10

  NO TIME IS SHOW TIME IN SCOTLAND
  Paul Bradshaw, cashier,
  Coatbridge Homebase:
  I am writing on behalf of many
  Scottish employees of the
  Sainsbury Group, in particular
  those who are members of the
  SSA.
  On the back page of...

• Gone fishing
  12

  Gone fishing
  A Solomons fisherman lands a catch.
  Imagine arriving at work in a canoe!
  That's life in the Solomon Islands,
  where Sainsbury's tuna fish is caught
  and canned. Dean Thompson, senior
  grocery buyer, flew to the...

• Pit your wits
  14

  Spring crossword
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  This film won tlie Best Film
  Oscar in Spring 1996 (10)
  He presided at the trial of Jesus
  Christ (7,6)
  He denied...

• Miss Halliday's herbs
  15

  Miss Halliday's herbs
  The most unpromising of relationships can
  develop in surprising ways...
  ileen Halliday, a retired pharmacist, has lived all her life in the t cottage in Stroud that has been in her family for more than...

• A trio of pizzas
  16

  A trio of pizzas
  Frozen pizzas are always handy to have in the
  freezer. The 740g American Style Deep Pan Pizza
  Supreme is topped with Mozzarella cheese,
  peppers, pepperoni barbecue chicken, ham and
  mushrooms. If you don't...

• All things bright and beautiful
  16

  All things bright and beautiful
  These Flower and
  Butterfly Chocolate
  Boxes will make Ideal
  Easter Day gifts. Each
  box contains 12
  Champagne Brandy
  Truffles and costs
  £3.99.
  AVAIUBLE IN MOST STORES

• Easter bunnies
  16

  Easter bunnies
  Easter wouldn't be Easter without the bunnies. The JS Easter Bunny
  (£9.99) is made from milk chocolate, with white and plain chocolate
  decorations, and finished off with a bright pink nose. Its smaller
  210g...

• Great painters
  16

  Great painters
  A new range of Homebase trade paints has been specially
  formulated to meet the high
  performance standards
  demanded by professional
  decorators. Products include
  Liquid Gloss, Emulsion, Quick
  Drying Eggshell,...

• Leg it
  16

  Leg it
  A new range of tights called MON-FRI are now available instore.
  They come in four different colours - black, nearly black, navy and
  natural - and contain 50 per cent more Lycra than Sainsbury's
  three-pair pack of 10...

• Causing a stir
  17

  Causing a stir
  A new selection of 450g oriental
  stir fries is sure to get taste buds
  stirring. They come in four
  varieties; Egg Fried Rice (£1.15),
  Noodles in Black Bean Sauce
  (£1.39), Oriental Vegetables (£1.29)
  and...

• Don't forget Mother's Day
  17

  Don't forget Mother's Day
  Our buyers have come up with a
  colourful range of house plants and cut
  flowers to buy your mother on 9 March.
  This specially designed Scented Bouquet
  (pictured right) includes jaccaranda
  roses with...

• Scent and scentability
  17

  Scent and scentability
  These moodenhancing
  fragrant
  candles (below)
  / come in two
  f varieties, Vanilla
  and Sunflower. The
  candle holders are
  made from recycled
  glass and are filled
  in a small Welsh
  village...

• The Journal's great New Lines giveaway
  17

  The Journal's great New Lines giveaway
  WORK LOCATION If you would like to sample some
  of our new products simply cross the
  box next to your first choice and send the
  coupon to the JS Journal March Giveaway,
  9th floor, Drury...

• Beautiful bag lady!
  18

  Beautiful bag lady!
  As part of a school project, little
  Amelia Young, daughter of
  Lorraine, a checkout replenishment
  assistant at Bournemouth,
  had to have an outfit made of
  recycled items. Lorraine came
  up with this little...

• Frank's marathon in memory of his wife
  18

  Frank's marathon in memory of his wife
  Frank Ebrey, a 71-year-old
  part-time customer services
  assistant at Eltham, London,
  is cycling a marathon 4,000
  miles around New Zealand to
  raise money for the nearby
  Queen Elizabeth's...

• MP praises London store
  18

  MP praises London store
  Dagenham's Labour MP
  Judith Church praised
  London's Chadwell Heath
  store for its initiative in
  employing people with
  learning difficulties through
  the Mencap employment
  sen'ice. Ms Church was...

• Penny Back raises £300
  18

  Penny Back raises £300
  Staff at King's Lynn have used
  Penny Back cash to present
  £300 each to the local
  Citizens' Advice Bureau and
  Hedley Roberts Trust, which
  helps disabled children in
  Norfolk.

• Prize painter
  18

  Prize painter
  Suzanne Shephard, a 25 club
  member who works as a cash
  office clerk at Solihull, 'West
  Midlands, has won a cup in a
  local art show for her oil
  painting The New Forest,
  after it was chosen from over
  130 by the...

• Rugby season kicks off
  18

  Rugby season kicks off
  The Griffin team, ready for action.
  Sainsbury's Griffin rugby team - whose players work at Blackfriars
  and the branches - kicks off the rugby season with a series of
  matches starting with the...

• School project wins accolade for Warren Heath
  18

  School project wins accolade for Warren Heath
  Warren Heath staff in Ipswich
  had their hands full when a
  group of children from the local
  Clifford Road School spent the
  day at the store working on a
  school project. The...

• Wigan wins access award
  18

  Wigan wins access award
  Gordon Davy, store manager at Wigan, was recently
  proud to receive the Wigan Access award, reserved for
  organisations who have gone beyond what is legally
  required of them to make their buildings...

• Chilean adventure
  19

  Chilean adventure
  ^ Se™*^
  Nick Percy, an
  evening
  warehouse
  assistant at
  Duriiam, tool< up
  the opportunity of a
  lifetime when he
  recently joined 140 other
  adventurers on an
  expedition to southern
  Chile.
  The 10-week...

• Golden gift is trolley good
  19

  Golden gift is trolley good
  A young autistic child, who loves to pretend she's playing TV's
  Supermarket Sweep game on her weekly visits with her mother to
  Badger Farm store in Winchester has been given her own,
  customised...

• JS provides cash link
  19

  JS provides cash link
  Linkline, which supports men
  and women who are under
  threat of domestic violence,
  has received a donation of
  £500 from Queen's Road store,
  Norwich, and Blacl cash will go...

• Today's the day
  19

  24 January is the day
  that will stick in the
  minds of friends Avis
  Wilson, a cash office
  clerk at Denton, Manchester, and her colleague Diane Butterworth, assistant customer
  service manager, as the day they appeared in BBC 2...

• A fresher loaf
  20

  A fresher loaf
  Better
  Quality...
  Same Price
  STAYS SOFTER
  FOR LONGER
  Regular buyers of JS crusty
  bread may well have noticed
  that their loaves are keeping
  fresher for longer.
  It's thanks to a new,
  Improved recipe that is...

• Meating the challenge
  20

  Meating the challenge
  It was knives out when JS butchers battled against each other
  for top prize in the first Meat Counter of the Year Competition
  JS customers at Southend in Essex can visit their fresh meat
  counter with...

• New ways of raising dough
  20

  New ways of raising dough
  There's a lot happening in our in-store bakeries, from improvements in
  the quality of our bread to presentational changes instore, in what is a
  far-reachir^ programme to increase our market share JS...

• Stalwart service: our 40 year achievers
  21

  Stalwart service: our 40 year achievers
  Spending 40 years with one company is an achievement by any standard
  these days and this year 10 members of staff have clocked up four decades
  with Sainsbury's. For another, 40 years'...

• Super trooper
  21

  Super trooper
  Carl Sabelllnl MBE is a part-time JS price controller - and a full-time soldier He's also an allsinging,
  all dancing minstrel. Jon Carpenter catches up with him in a rare, free half hour The soldier... Cari wtth...

• SSA OFFERS
  22

  SAINSBURY'S STAFF ASSOCIATION Tel: 0171 921 7227
  Spring and summer
  in tlie tiighlands of
  Scotland
  By popular request, we are continuing to offer readers and ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B ' Q H H P ^^. ^^^ ^ ^
  their families special...

• Long service
  23

  Long service
  Employees who have completed 25years' service
  PAMELA AGGISS, senior provisions assistant, Basingstoke Central, KEITH
  ANDERSON, assistant manager, reception, Stanway. JOHN BOREHAM, overs
  controller, llford....

• Obituary
  23

  Obituary
  Length of service appears in brackets
  GEORGE CRAMPTON, 59, a trolley collector at South Harrow, died suddenly
  on 7 February (2yrs). PATRICIA MILES, 62, a coffee shop assistant at
  Rustington died after a short illness...

• Retirements
  23

  Retirements
  Length of service is in brackets
  EDWARD ANDREWS, transport supervisor, Basingstoke depot (26yrs).
  EDWARD BAILEY, warehousekeeper, Basingstoke depot (23yrs). MARIO
  BALBUENA, warehousekeeper, Basingstoke depot...

• Sound and Vision
  23

  This month there's a good
  mix of releases
  Casino, released on 10 March, is a powerful drama from
  director Martin Scorcese (Goodfelks, Cape Fear). Starring
  Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci, Casino is a
  gripping, fact...

• Wedding Bells
  23

  Stephen Ayres and Louise Bllson from
  Homebase merchandising married in
  December at Beaulieu's Abbey Church.
  This makes history, as it's Homebase
  merchandising's first ever wedding!

• A shopping trip down memory lane
  24

  A shopping trip down memory lane
  There's always something new at Sainsbury's' - and the Archives can prove it! In 128
  years of history the product range has extended from just three lines to over 20,000.
  This month, we take a...