'JS Journal', March 1998

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• Contents Page
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  Contents
  Company news including stories on:
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  Sainsbury's becoming The Official England Supermarket
  Pictures for Schools wins in the Hollis Sponsorship Awards
  The...

• From the editor
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  From the editor
  I know the cover looks a bit like Wildlife
  Weekly, but this is the Journal - honest. The
  owl's there to help the Stockwise campaign
  get off the ground (page 18) and symbolize
  wisdom, vigilance and pride. Three...

• Double award for Pictures for Schools scheme
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  Double award for Pictures for Schools scheme Sainsbury's Pictures for Schools scheme won the Sponsorship of the Year trophy in the Mollis Sponsorship
  February, having already won the top prize in the arts sponsorship category....

• JS gets England call-up
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  JS gets England call-up
  Sainsbury's
  The Official
  England Supermarket
  Following an exclusive
  arrangement with the English
  Football Association, Sainsbury's
  is to be The Official England
  Supermarket throughout the
  World Cup...

• Trading statement released to City
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  Trading statement released to City
  The JS Group trading
  statement for the 16 weeks
  to 10 January was issued to
  the City on 6 February
  The statement highlighted
  Sainsbury's Supermarkets
  like-for-like sales growth of
  3.2%...

• News in brief
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  Senior appointments kick in
  The chairman, David Sainsbury, has confirmed details of the
  senior appointments announced in October. In a statement
  released to the Group on 6 March, he said:
  "Dino Adriano becomes group chief...

• Quality campaign under way
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  Quality campaign under way
  The 'Taste the Sainsbury's difference' promotion got under way on
  Sunday 22 February with the first TV screening of a 30-second ad which
  emphasises the quality of JS's own label products, and shows...

• Tom Yyner retires after 20 years with JS
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  Tom Yyner retires after 20 years with JS
  Tom Vyner retired from JS at the end of January after
  almost 20 years distinguished service with the company. Tom Vyner joined
  Sainsbury's in 1978 as
  director responsible for
  grocery...

• New structure for regions as Colin Etheridge retires
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  New structure for regions as
  Colin Etheridge retires
  Following the retirement of south-eastern regional director Colin
  Etheridge, the number of regions in the retail division of the supermarket
  business reduced from six to...

• News in brief
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  Top lottery prizes for 33 stores
  Thirty JS stores and three
  Savacentres have won gold awards
  for best practice in the national
  lottery, with 39 stores achieving
  silver and 155 bronze. The awards
  were made following an...

• Showtime
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  Showtime
  kicked off the 1998 exhibition programme - the most extensive yet - with the Hortex
  International trade show at Harrogate, the UK's major event for fruit and vegetable
  During February, Sainsbury's
  growers. During the...

• Give Me 5
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  Give Me 5
  The British Dietetic Association ran its first Food
  Awareness Week (from 9 to 15 March). The key message of the week
  is that, as part of a healthy
  balanced diet, people should
  eat at least five portions of
  fruit...

• Homebase impresses press
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  Homebase impresses press
  More than 120 journalists
  from home interest magazines
  and national press
  experienced an assault on all
  their senses on 11 February
  at the Homebase Outdoor
  Living launch. The brave
  new world...

• News in brief
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  92 years a JS shopper
  Customer Lilian Soar recently
  celebrated her 100th birthday with a
  party in Stanway's coffee shop, where she was presented with champagne,
  flowers and a JS hamper by store manager Arthur Holland and...

• Uniform creations on the way
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  Uniform creations on the way
  Thanks to local staff councils, uniform 2000 questionnaires have been completed
  by staff from 288 stores to help decide what the future Sainsbury's staff uniform
  should look like. Among the female...

• Enjoy a musical day out
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  Enjoy a musical day out If you fancy a musical day out with the family in the coming
  months, make a note of the dates of the audition rounds of
  the 1998 Sainsbury's Choir of the Year Competition. There's going to be...

• JS looks for SOuRCe of organics
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  JS looks for SOuRCe of organics Sainsbury's is seeking out
  new supplies of organic produce through a new body known as
  Sainsbury's Organic Resourcing Club (SOuRCe), the first meeting
  of which was held recently at Fanhams Hall,...

• News in brief
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  June kick-off for Corporate Games
  Anyone on Dave Reynolds' district who
  is interested in taking part in The UK
  & Ireland Corporate Games taking
  place in Bracknell from 12 to 14 June
  should contact store manager's...

• Look who's talking: 2
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  Moving like natural spring water, TalkBack views given in 1996 filtered through JS's structure, permeating it with new ideas as they went,
  before emerging as a crystal-clear expression of employee opinion. Now the process is...

• Group-wide
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  Group-wide
  Here's our regular round-up of what s been going on across the Group. SAINSBURY'S
  S U P E R M A R K E T S
  LIGHT YEARS AHEAD AT HALIFAX
  In a national competition, the Lighting
  Industry Federation has judged...

• A question of quality
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  With the hard-hitting 'Taste the Sainsbury's difference' campaign focusing
  on JS's competitive quality, the Journal takes a look at the part the
  consumer is playing in helping JS develop better-tasting food. As JS has always...

• Writelines
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  Have your say
  Fair trade
  The Reverend Malcolm
  King, the parish of Cove:
  w e have accumulated
  receipts for the value of £3,210
  which are the results of
  shopping done by Anglicans at
  Farnborough, Watchmoor Park
  and...

• Homebase helps home town
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  Homebase helps home town
  Small businesses are far more likely to go broke in the first few years than at any other
  time. That's why good advice early on from an experienced business partner can be so
  vital in making the...

• Ideas for... Mother's Day 22 March
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  Ideas for... Mother's Day 22 March
  Whether your mother is trying to kill
  you with kindness or just plain nag you
  to death, the chances are she loves you
  really. So why not show her you love
  her too deep down - even if you...

• Fresh ideas, fresh Halifax
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  Fresh ideas,
  The future's bright. The future's Halifax. The Journal invites you on a tour of the store with such a good-looking J
  interior that it could well be shaping supermarket design into the next millennium.
  tafeeaf' l o...

• Wise up to Stockwise
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  A radical new way of discussing stock issues with colleagues is launched this month under
  the Stockwise banner. Kicking off the Stockwise programme is Jenny's Choice, a real-life
  video drama about real dilemmas facing people...

• Help the Journal name the Stockwise owl
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  Help the Journal name the Stockwise owl
  Send in your entry to: Stockwise Owl Competition, Stockwise
  Department, 4th Floor, Rennie House North, Stamford Street,
  London, SE1 9LL. The suggestion which gets used will win
  £75...

• A wander round Sainsbury's website
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  A wander round Sainsbury's website
  With households able to access the Internet increasing by 140% last year, the
  Journal decided to join the ranks of the superhighway surfers, and navigate its way to the Sainsbury's website....

• Mini bakery brings in the dough
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  Mini bakery brings in the dough Bakers John Shaw (left) and Steve Merchant get behind Harpenden's new
  mini bakery range. Thanks to the invention of the mini bakery, 65
  smaller stores without in-store bakeries will all soon be...

• Branch opening—Ashbourne
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  Ashbourne A chilly but dry January day
  marked the opening of the new
  store in the conservation area of
  Ashbourne up in the Peak District.
  Built in the smaller Country
  Town format, the store makes
  extensive use of oak beams...

• Branch opening—Brentwood
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  Brentwood It's taken 15 years and the
  expertise of JS's property
  development team to find a site
  suited to the company's needs
  for a large, modern store and
  the needs of the local authority
  and Brentwood community.
  Several...

• Branch opening—Calne
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  Clad in natural stone, Calne store is built on the site of
  the old Harris bacon factory - which supplied JS before
  the Second World War. During the war, staff from
  Sainsbury's factory were evacuated to Calne whilst
  Harris...

• As seen on TV
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  Telly Addicts host Noel Edmonds seems to have become addicted to using JS
  people in his House Party. Perhaps he'd seen how good the two night shift
  workers from Hedge End were on BBC's Style Challenge. Dale Winton must...

• For the superior pet
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  For the superior pet
  Pamper your pets with Sainsbury's High Society new luxury recipes for cats and dogs made from
  quality ingredients. For your cat there are five flavours including Fillet
  of Salmon & White Fish in jelly,...

• Lighting for all shades of taste
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  The new Homebase lighting
  collection of table lamp
  bases, fabric shades and
  uplighters has been
  launched to coincide with
  the opening of the
  Homebase flagship store in
  Ewell. The colourway of the
  new label was selected...

• Special spuds
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  Special spuds
  For one of the most versatile spuds on
  the market, try Desiree Potatoes at
  99p for 1.5kg. The reddish-coloured
  and unevenly-shaped Desiree potato
  can be baked, boiled, roasted and is
  ideal for making chips or...

• Tasty twin-pot
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  Tasty twin-pot
  Sainsbury's has unveiled a brand
  new concept - a two-part meal in
  one. The three meals available
  are: Satay Vegetable & Jasmine
  Rice in a spicy peanut sauce;
  Vegetable Couscous in a spicy
  tomato sauce and...

• The Taste test
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  The Taste test
  « • • • • • •
  Members of Homebase's
  merchandising
  department provide the
  taste buds for this
  month's taste test
  product- Hot Cakes
  (£1.49). The cakes come
  in three varieties -
  Chunky...

• Cakes galore
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  Cakes galore
  Two cake lines have been launched to appeal to all sweet-lovers out there. Jungle
  Animal Cakes (£1.19) is a selection of fondant-topped sponge squares with chocolate,
  banana, orange, lemon and
  strawberry...

• Causing a stir
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  Causing a stir
  Washed and ready to cook Exotic Stir Fry Vegetables (£1.69) are now
  available. Containing baby pak choi, sweet peppers, sugar snaps, salad
  onions, baby corn and coriander - all grown and packed in Kenya...

• Muffin mania
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  Muffin mania
  An addition to the existing range, the American Style Bitesize 9
  Double Choc Chip Muffins are the perfect light treat to keep your
  hunger at bay. The pack of nine costs 99p.
  AVAILABLE IN 146 STORES

• Wash day therapy
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  Wash day therapy
  A new aromatherapy product has hit the
  shelves. Aromasoft Fabric Conditioner (£1.29)
  has three variants - Serenity, Awakenings and
  Sensual. Each contains essential oils and comes
  in a resealable pouch,...

• Christmas card donation
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  Christmas card donation
  Dot Buonvino, checkout/
  replenishment assistant and
  Sainsbury's Bank store
  champion at Forest Hill
  recently presented a cheque
  for £100 to the special baby
  unit at Lewisham Hospital. It
  was money...

• Cycling for charity
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  Cycling for charity
  To raise money for neurofibromatosis research,
  Jackie Kennedy, assistant manager administration at
  Grimsby, cycled 46 miles from Cleethorpes to Lincoln
  with her friend, Belinda. Jackie raised the grand...

• Fondly remembered
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  Fondly remembered
  ^ seat has been dedicated at
  the Harlow crematorium
  garden of rest to Wendv
  Swann, who worked at
  Hoddesdon for 23 years, and
  died last July.
  Wendy was manager of the
  services department, and...

• New boys on the block
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  New boys on the block
  It may not have been the Brits but
  the 'sing for your supper' night for
  the Buntingford veterans produced
  a fresh and exciting group sure to
  take the music world by storm.
  These five young lads, known...

• Side by Side outside...and in
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  Side by Side outside...and in
  Staff at Archer Road worked 'Side by Side' with Whirlow Hall Farm Trust to
  transform a neglected area into a garden that could be appreciated and looked
  after by city children who stay at the farm....

• The half monty
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  The half monty
  Though the rest of the staff at Truro were bursting to see these
  sexy things go the full monty, they were to be disappointed.
  Nevertheless, they were treated to a sight not seen at the average
  Christmas dinner....

• Beautiful day for Hereford beauties
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  Beautiful day for Hereford beauties The girls at play (I to r):
  Joan, Chris and Sharon When Chris
  Tong, a
  confectioner
  at Hereford,
  \lfl wrote to the
  News of the
  World's Sunday
  magazine
  requesting a
  make-over,...

• He who pays the piper calls the haggis
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  He who pays the piper calls the haggis
  Wantage store had a great
  time piping in the haggis on
  Burns' Night. Piping the haggis
  around the store is Julian
  Steer (front) followed by
  George Phillips who is carrying
  the haggis,...

• T-shirts find a good home
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  T-shirts find a good home
  If anyone has wondered
  what happened to the leftover
  Special Olympics
  promotional T-shirts,
  they're in Gambia! Wendy
  tawrence, who works in the
  kiosk at Longwater, took 75
  T-shirts on holiday...

• Tom shows his bottle
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  Tom shows his bottle
  Tom Miller (above), customer
  services manager at Durham
  proudly shows off the bottle of
  bubbly he won for being
  mentioned in Newcastle
  Journal's Good Service Award
  article. Tom was nominated by
  a...

• The £25 crossword and £10 wordsearch
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  DAFFODILS RHODODENDRON GARDF.NING GI.OVKS ROSF.S...

• Get stamped
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  Get stamped
  Actor and writer Terence Stamp, star
  of the cult Australian film The Adventures
  of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,
  has recently written his Stamp
  Collection8 cookbook, and the Journal
  has 40 copies to give away....

• Golden promise give-away
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  Golden promise give-away
  To celebrate the success of Golden Promise, a
  winner at the Soil Association Organic Food
  Awards, The Caledonian Brewery is offering
  Journal readers the chance to win one of ten
  cases of Golden...

• NOVEMBER COMPETITION WINNERS
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  NOVEMBER COMPETITION WINNERS
  Winning our £25 crossword prize is VAL TUCKWELL at Newton Abbot.
  Our £10 wordsearch prize goes to C LEWIS, a veteran.
  Definitely not feeling left out are our left-handed gift pack winners:
  PAULA...

• Tricky trivia
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  Tricky trivia Let's see how
  you do in this
  month's Tricky
  Trivia quiz. What is the nationality of former motor racing champion,
  Nelson Piquet?
  In what suburb was The Good Life set?
  Who was the first football player to win...

• SSA OFFERS
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  TRAVEL CLUB
  There are a variety of activities now on offer to
  SSA members for that special birthday or anniversary present,
  or even just a treat for yourself.
  Here's a few suggestions at prices that won't break the...

• Long service
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  Long service
  Employees who have completed 25years' service
  BERYL ADAMS, kiosk assistant, Redditch PAM ANDREWS, senior checkout assistant, Muswell Hill. CHRISTOPHER BAGGALEY.
  store manager, Sittingbourne. MARGARET BAYLISS, fresh...

• Obituary
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  Obituary
  CHARLIE BROWN, 73, a trolley collector at Milton Keynes, died suddenly on 10 February Oyrs) RENE CARR, 55, a zone
  controller at Camden, died suddenly on 17 February (7yrs) CLAIRE LANGRIDGE 26, a kiosk assistant at...

• Retirements
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  Retirements
  Length of service is in brackets
  JEAN ALI, checkout/replenishment assistant, Ashford Oyrs) JOYCE AMBLER, checkout/replenishment assistant, Woolwich
  (25yrs). DOROTHY BARR, bread and cake assistant, Forestside...

• Sound and Vision
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  SAINSBURY'S
  reviews
  Friendly
  dinosaurs? tyn Pis
  On the video front, 'something has survived' from
  Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, and is now wreaking
  havoc in the sequel, The Lost World. Starring Jeff
  Goldblum, Pete...

• Weddings
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  Weddings
  SAMANTHA BURFORD Forest Hill's dry goods
  deputy manager, and MARK FERRIS.
  department manager bakery at Eltham,
  married on 23 August and honeymooned in
  the Dominican Republic. They met at
  Sevenoaks store and Mark...

• The gentlemanly business of insurance
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  The gentlemanly business of insurance The recent launch by Sainsbury's Bank of buildings and home
  contents insurance set the archives thinking of past policies. Qinks with Royal Sun Alliance, Sainsbury's Bank's
  partner in this...