'JS Journal', August/September 1997

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• Contents Page
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  Raising a record-breaking £500,000 for Special Olynnpics was a
  massive feat and the Journal pays tribute to everyone who
  helped raise money in this bumper summer edition. We also
  preview the arrival of Microban products...

• Homebase offers insurance discount
  02

  Homebase offers insurance discount
  Earlier this year
  Homebase launched
  Homebase Home &
  Contents Insurance,
  backed by five of the
  UK's leading insurers. Now all Group staff can take
  advantage of a 10% discount
  on Homebase...

• Sainsbury's scoops olive oil award
  02

  Sainsbury's scoops olive oil award
  JS has won an award for having the widest range
  of Italian olive oils.
  Connor McVeigh at the Accademla Hallana In London. The 31-strong range was
  recognised in the first supermarketing
  olive...

• Assessors assessed
  03

  Assessors assessed
  Midlands regional director
  Dave Smith (who retired last
  month) and Castle Boulevard
  district manager Don
  Haywcird celebrated with 13
  managers who have achieved
  the qualification needed to
  assess the work...

• Self scanning innovation at Kempshott
  03

  Self scanning innovation at Kempshott Kempshott in Basingstoke has become the first British
  supermarket to offer customers self scanning using radio
  frequency equipment. at Kempshott
  Once Reward Card customers
  have registered...

• 'The Living Landscape' comes alive
  03

  The Living Landscape' comes alive
  'The Living Landscape' is a
  new initiative set up between
  Sainsbury's and its suppliers
  to work closely together over
  the next five years to introduce
  whole farm conservation,
  ensuring all...

• Graduate Finance Scheme wins quality recognition
  04

  Graduate Finance Scheme
  wins quality recognition
  Sainsbui7's Graduate Finance scheme has been given Quality Approved
  status by the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (CIMA). There are currently 23 graduates
  on the...

• Shopping around (about) the world!
  04

  Shopping around (about) the world
  Basingstolie's mayor cuts the ribbon with
  heip from the chiidren of Kempshott Primary Schooi. Sponsored byJS, the piece,
  entitled 'Shopping around
  the World', stands in the
  centre of a...

• Size does matter!
  04

  Size does matter!
  Bigger is best • some of the
  new vegetable Fresh 'H'
  Ready paclts. Market research has found
  that most of our shoppers
  would prefer our range of
  Fresh 'N' Ready vegetable
  packs to contain enough...

• What's for dinner?
  04

  What's for dinner?
  JS is sponsoring an exhibition entitled 'Wait and
  See (Wiiat's for Dinner?)' at the Towner Art Gallery
  in Eastbourne.
  One of the paintings that wiii be appearing in the JS sponsored exhibition. The show...

• Christmas comes early!
  05

  Christmas comes early!
  Bottoms up! - consumer journalists
  encountered this terribie twosome
  at Sainsbury's Christmas product
  iaunch in London. It's not Christmas just yet but
  both Sainsbury's and Homebase
  have previewed...

• Increasing access to the arts for everyone
  05

  Increasing access to the arts for everyone
  The enthusiasm with which
  staff participated in Sainsbury's
  Arts for All programme
  over the last two years
  was rewarded when JS received
  an endorsement of its Arts
  for All...

• Naming the way
  05

  Naming the way
  Thoughts of Sainsbury's were literally thousands of miles away as
  Barbara David, secretary to the new deputy retail director at Blackfriars
  was cruising along an Arizona highway on holiday in
  the States with her...

• Young family fun!
  05

  Young family fun!
  Sainsbury's is
  helping to make life
  easier for parents
  with young children.
  The 'Young Families' programme,
  now well under way,
  has started by offering three
  key activities this summer
  designed to make...

• Chris Tarrant gives Locksbottom Side by Siders a helping hand
  06

  Chris Tarrant gives Locksbottom Side by Siders a helping hand
  TV and radio star Chris Tarrant dropped in to officially open a fun day
  organised by tlie Plioenix Centre in Bromley, Kent. The event raised money for
  the centre...

• JS teams take the biscuit
  06

  JS teams take the biscuit
  Some of the best bakery teams in the company were at
  Fanhams Hall recently to receive their awards in the first
  Sainsbury's Bakery of the Year Competition. They were joined by retail
  director Robin...

• Showing off
  06

  Showing off
  Sainsbury's has been showing off its wares at this
  year's Royal Show at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Our stand at the four-day
  show included cookery demonstrations,
  product sampling
  and displays, plus the launch
  of...

• Top prize for a load of bull
  06

  Top prize for a load of bull
  Meet Sarabande Excalibur,
  the 17-month-old winner of
  Sainsbury's Super Beef Bull
  Competition at the recent
  South of England Show held at Ardingly in Sussex.
  The Hereford bull, pictured
  with Mike...

• Director helps shape Education's future
  07

  Director helps shape Education's future
  The Dearing Report into
  higher education funding
  was published last month
  and Judith Evans, personnel
  policy director, was a
  member of the 16-strong
  committee. Judith, who
  chaired...

• Directors retire
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  Directors retire
  David Smith
  Midlands regional director
  David Smith has retired, after
  39 years with the company.
  There were so many members
  of staff who wanted to
  say goodbye that several
  leaving parties had to...

• Group-wide
  07

  Here's our new regular round-up of what's been going on
  across the Group...
  FOOTBALL CRAZY
  Shaw's is co-sponsoring a soccer
  tournament Involving a team
  from Walllngford, Oxfordshire
  against Walllngford In
  Connecticut.
  NEW...

• We're all in on the Act!
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  We're all in on the Act!
  Everyone at Sainsbury's needs to know about the Data Protection Act, the law that
  aims to ensure that all personal infornnation held by the company is used only for
  the purpose for which it was...

• EUREKA!
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  Adrian Roebuck
  is delighted that
  his Fresh idea
  has been
  accepted.
  Tim Gilbert, produce manager at South Woodford, couldn't
  believe it when he heard that his idea had been accepted. His
  idea was to provide customers with...

• Shareholders share their views
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  Shareholders
  share their views
  The Group's 1997 Annual General Meeting for shareholders was held on 9 July at the
  Queen Elizabeth II
  Conference Centre in
  London. As well as being a
  legal requirement, the
  meeting gave...

• Grown close to home
  09

  Grown close to home
  Kent has been called the Garden of England and
  it's easy to see why. Fertile soil has led to a long
  tradition of expert fruit and vegetable growers.
  "You can easily tell a grower - it's in the genes!"...

• You've been framed!
  10

  You've been framed!
  Remploy's Medway factory in Kent,
  where the pictures are framed.
  Set up in 1945 to provide
  jobs for people with
  disabilities, Remploy
  now has 95 factories
  nationwide. Over the last
  four years,...

• Branch opening—Blackheath
  11

  Blackheath
  Blackheath store, despite
  opening on a day that felt
  more like autumn than summer,
  still managed to attract a
  queue that stretched right
  around the building. The old JS
  store in nearby Halesowen closed in 1992,...

• Branch opening—Reedswood
  11

  Reedswood
  Ree(Jswood is Walsall's second
  store, and several staff have
  transferred from the smaller
  store in the town. The first
  customer in the queue was John
  McKenny, who admitted that he
  was there by mistake: "I thought...

• Cambridge memories?
  12

  Cambridge memories?
  Do you have memories of the Sidney Street, Cambridge stores? If so, the Archives would like to
  hear from you. Please ring Bridget Williams or David Stevens on 0171-921 8200, or write to
  Sainsbury's Archives,...

• City high flyers
  12

  City high flyers
  Six students across the Group recently completed their
  management MBA at the City University. "They are the largest and
  most successful group of graduates thus far," says Andrew Tanner,
  development programme...

• From pier to eternity
  12

  From pier to eternity
  Bexhill store manager Simon
  South and assistant reception
  manager Brian Hill walked
  the 26 miles between
  Eastbourne Pier and Hastings
  Pier on 2 July. The marathon
  walk took four hours to
  complete and...

• Hand it to them
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  Hand it to them
  Staff at Hedge End decided
  to mark National Food Safety
  Week by organising a
  competition for local school
  kids. Assistant customer
  serxice manager, Carole
  (x)rnclius explains: "The
  local council was running...

• Lewisham is tops
  12

  Lewisham
  staff at JS Lewisham came top
  out of 80 stores when
  customers who shop at The
  Riverdale Centre in Lewisham
  were asl^ed to nominate the
  store they believed deserved a
  Customer Service Award. "This is an accolade...

• NVQ success
  12

  NVQ success
  Members of the management
  and district teams in David
  Robb's district in the
  Northern region have
  qualified to be asses,s()rs and
  internal verifiers for KVQs.

• Oldham goes cosmopolitan
  12

  Canteen staff at Oldham took
  the recent bout of customer
  instore promotions to their
  kitchens, turning the normal
  working week into a cosmopolitan
  celebration. 'Boring old
  Tuesday' became an American
  Day, complete with flag...

• Skye's the limit
  12

  Skye's the limit
  Steve Quayle, store manager
  at Homebase Crayford raised
  more than £400 when he
  completed a sponsored climb
  of the Caiillin Ridge on the
  Isle of Skye. The money will
  be used to buy safety
  equipment for...

• Smiling on the summit
  12

  Smiling on the summit
  staff at Homebase in Ayr, Scotland, scaled one of the
  highest mountains in Ireland to raise money for
  ChildLine, the company's charity this year. Five
  members of staff, including Steve Frew who talked...

• Baby boomers
  13

  Baby boomers
  Kate Mesquita, personnel manager at Water Lane in Farnham, has
  administered more maternity leave in the last six months than in
  her last eight years with the company.
  Nine members of staff have produced bouncing...

• Getting into the spirit
  13

  Getting into the spirit
  Team days, which encourage
  Homebase managers to get to know
  each other better and build a sense of
  unity, are being run by Homebase's
  management training and
  development department.
  The events take...

• Going down...
  13

  Penny Worman was told not to
  look down when she
  approached the edge of the
  building she was about to
  abseil down. But she couldn't
  resist a small peep and admits
  "that was the worst thing I
  could have done and I...

• One small step for man, one giant leap for Kempston
  13

  One small step for man, one giant leap for Kempston
  A pact made by nine members of staff at Kempston a
  year ago was realised recently when all of them
  jumped 2,500 ft to raise £1,000 for the Marie Curie and
  McMillan...

• Sainsbury's supports Rams
  13

  Sainsbury's supports Rams
  Sainsbury's has
  announced an exciting
  new sponsorship deal
  which will help nurture
  more young sporting
  talent. Rams Soccer
  Academy was launched
  two years ago by Derby
  County Football...

• Writelines
  14

  DOES IT PAY TO ADVERTISE?
  Mrs Anne Evans, veteran,
  Gloucester:
  Although retired to lovely
  Devon, I still like to hear news
  of JS and its financial results
  etc. so I was a little surprised
  to see a full page...

• Going for Gold
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  The torch run from Sheffield to Portsmouth inspired
  sres to come up with some very unusual and ingenious
  means of carriage - on the back of a tractor, a fire
  sngine, on a canal barge, by roller skates, on a bed, by
  parachute...

• Pit your wits
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• Get snapping
  23

  Get snapping!
  S JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 1997
  It's time once again for tlie JS
  Journal's annual photographic
  competition. There's a fantastic
  top prize of £200 for the overall
  winner of our three categories, and...

• Keep on trucking!
  23

  Keep on trucking!
  Our May Archives competition to win a
  model JS truck proved hugely popular and
  generated many enquiries about where to
  buy the truck. Unfortunately due to an
  administrative error we were unable to pick
  the...

• Bless you!
  24

  Bless you!
  JS Ultra Soft tissues are
  made with three special
  layers which provide
  extra strength, added
  softness and greater
  absorbency. There
  are four varieties:
  Mansize (£1.39);
  Cosmetic (£1.29);
  Regular (£1.29)...

• Don't scream for ice-cream
  24

  Don't scream for ice-cream
  Why not cool down this summer with two new ranges of
  refreshing ice cream. JS Dairy Iced Dessert is 95% fat free
  and comes in two delicious flavours - Toffee and Vanilla (£1.69
  each). Or why not try...

• Mushroom mania
  24

  Mushroom mania
  A new range of
  strange-looking
  mushrooms is now
  available for you to
  amaze your dinner
  guests with.
  Enoki Mushrooms
  (£1.69 for 100 grams)
  are widely used in
  Japanese cooking and are often used in stir...

• Plenty of fizz
  24

  Plenty of fizz
  Sainsbury's Fizzlers is a
  new type of biscuit which
  is sure to make your taste
  buds zing. These
  shortcake sandwich
  biscuits with fizzy fruit
  flavour fillings come in two flavours - Lemon and Orange. They cost...

• Wine and dine
  24

  Wine and dine
  Whatever you're doing this summer, why not
  spend some time at home enjoying the new Vin
  De Pays D'Oc wines from southern France.
  Three wines are available: Merlot Cabernet
  Sauvignon (£3.25) is a...

• Batteries for life
  25

  Batteries for life
  There's nothing worse than running out of batteries when you're on holiday, so it's worth stocking up
  before you go with some of Homebase's new batteries. There are two types: Powerpacl< zinc...

• Ham it up the American way American way,
  25

  Ham it up the American way
  Deli counters are now offering a new range of American style hams. Every
  product is produced from American pork legs which are cured and
  finished to Sainsbury's high standards here in the UK. The...

• Pot luck
  25

  Pot luck
  you fancy a quick nutritional meal, look no further than our
  new range of instant recipe pot meals. There are nine
  flavours to choose from: Chicken & Sweetcorn Rice
  (65p); Tomato & Herb Pasta (69p); Cheese & Broccoli...

• Rainforest relief
  25

  Rainforest relief
  If you buy the new six or 12-pack Rainforest Fromage Frais (99p and £1.89
  respectively), not only will you be able to enjoy the taste of real Strawberry, Apricot
  and Blackcurrant purees, but you'll also be...

• The Journal's great New Lines giveaway
  25

  The Journal's great New Lines giveaway
  • Vin De Pays D'Oc wines
  • Homebase batteries
  • Instant pot meals
  • Ultra Soft tissues
  NlUIE
  If you would like to try some of
  our new products, simply cross
  the box next to...

• Names of fame
  26

  The Journal team is seeking your help. We are looking for
  Group staff who share tlicir name wiji|gtaiieone famous.
  Kellie Pearce is co-ordinating the^P-i'-ch here at
  Blackfriars for possible features in future issues of...

• Pamper your pets
  26

  Pamper your pets
  "Join today!"
  Tens of thousands of JS
  shoppers and their pets are
  now members of the first
  supermarket club of its kind.
  They benefit from exclusive
  savings on pet care products
  at Sainsbury's,...

• A blossoming career
  27

  A blossoming career
  Debbie Thomson has one of the most fragrant jobs in JS, as a floral assistant at Edinburgh's Blackball store.
  Carol Hurd talks to her about the tricks of the trade... S
  usiness is blooming in the JS...

• Bacteria: Your days are numbered!
  28

  Bacteria: Your days are numbered!
  Microban, one of the most exciting developments for JS this year, is coming to
  stores in September. What's behind this fresh idea? Microban, the breakthrough anti-bacterial
  product that...

• MAY COMPETITION WINNERS
  28

  MAY COMPETITION WINNERS
  JAN STANLEY from Blackfriars scooped £25 in our Money
  Matters crossword, while SARAH MILES from Sainsbury's
  Bank won £10 in ourMay wordsearch.
  It's off the the movies for 100 readers, winners in our...

• Building for a better future
  29

  Building for a better future
  Uganda has over a million orphans. Barbara
  Cowie, evening shift assistant at Blackpole,
  Worcester, has abandoned the comforts of
  life in England to help give some of them a
  chance of a better...

• SSA OFFERS
  30

  SSA TRAVEL CLUB
  ABTA
  Save time and money when
  booking your holiday
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  lATA
  Booking early for your Summer '98 holiday gives you the best of both
  worlds:
  • there is so much choice when booking early and
  • the best...

• Long service
  31

  Long service
  Employees who have completed 40years' service
  CLIFF CARTLANO, petrol station manager, Horsham. TREVOR BROWN, project
  manager. Property Group West, Blackfriars. BILL LAPPAGE, retail security,
  Blackfriars. JOSEPH...

• Obituary
  31

  Obituary
  Length of service appears in brackets
  DOREEN ATTRIDGE, 61, grocery assistant at Eltham, died suddenly on 9 May
  (9 yrs). BARBARA HOCKLEY, 58, senior checkout assistant at Locksbottom,
  died on 27 May after a short...

• Retirements
  31

  Retirements
  Length of service is in brackets
  MARGARET ARMSTRONG, provisions assistant, Kempston (18yrs). MARGARET
  BANGER, checkout/replenishment assistant, Worle (18yrs). JOYCI^BARNETT,
  packer, Kingsway (5yrs). ROSALEEN...

• Sound and Vision
  31

  SAINSBURY'S
  Mission to view!
  There's plenty of action for fans of fast-paced movies rushing up over the
  next few weeks. If you're a fan of Tom Cruise, your mission will be to rush
  out and buy Mission: Impossible, the smash hit...

• Weddings
  31

  Weddings
  Darren and Bohnie.
  DARREN BEE, store manager,
  Homebase Fareham and BONNIE
  PARKER, senior sales assistant,
  gardening, Homebase Fareham, were
  married at St. Edmunds Church. They
  honeymooned in Tenerife.
  CATHY BAUIV,...

• Packed and ready to go!
  32

  Packed and ready to go!
  This month we take a look at the history of Sainsbury's packaging. With over 20,000 lines in our range it is difficult to believe that we began in
  1869 with only three: eggs, butter and milk. O Classic...