'Sainsbury's Journal', March 2005

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• Contents Page
  02

  Inside...
  In the news
  3 Look out for the winners in
  the Retail Awards
  Your news
  4 Withernsea is Jacksons store
  of the year
  5 IVICIVI and MAC scores are
  improving
  7 Sainsbury's Bank-eight
  and great
  8 Letchworth...

• Up Front
  02

  M M Welcome to the March Journal.
  M M Sainsbury's held its first ever Retail
  Awards at the Hilton Metropole in Birmingham.
  The awards recognise excellence in our stores
  and colleagues, and the evening is a chance to
  celebrate...

• Celebrating the shop stars at Sainsbury's
  03

  Almost one thousand colleagues
  attended a gala evening on 1 March
  at the Hilton Metropole in
  Birmingham to celebrate
  Sainsbury's first Retail Awards.
  The awards recognise
  outstanding excellence and
  performance across all...

• Fact
  03

  Sainsbury's was
  recently listed
  in a top 100
  sustainable
  companies index
  published by
  the Ethical
  Corporation.
  The Global 100
  is a list of the
  most sustainable
  corporations.

• Raise a glass to the spirits team
  03

  'e BWS team has added fier trophy to its impressive
  |tlon by winning the Spirits
  ler of the Year Award at the
  ff Licence News Awards 2005.
  :'s the culmination of an
  rr^ent year for the team
  ^ers, who have been
  insts in...

• Tu too good to miss
  03

  Sales of Tu clothing have been
  buoyant since the range's launch -
  but there's one thing that really set
  the tills ringing.
  The story of Sainsbury's new
  clothes featured in a BBC
  documentary in January, and sales
  soared as a...

• Basingstoke colleagues at your service
  04

  Congratulations to everyone at
  Basingstoke depot - the first site
  be awarded Retail Service Centre
  status by Laurence Christensen,
  Supply Chain Director.
  Jon Hartland, zone managing
  director, nominated Basingstoke
  for its...

• Withernsea is top shop
  04

  Jacksons Withernsea colleagues are celebrating
  after the store was named Jacksons store of the
  year 2004.
  Store manager Christopher Rowse and his
  team were delighted to receive the award - which
  comes with an extra week's...

• Customer Corner
  05

  QMy child suffers from several allergies,
  which means that he can't enjoy Easter
  in the same way that other children can.
  Mhy don't you introduce some Easter eggs
  or similar products that are suitable for
  people with...

• Is it a Mystery? MAC and MCM - what's your score?
  05

  MAC and MCM are bonus targets
  for every colleague in Sainsbury's.
  But do you know how your store is
  performing? MAC scores are
  improving every period. Back in
  period 7, the average score was
  89.3 per cent, and that's now...

• Spring into Easter
  05

  Easter is almost here - and
  Sainsbury's has everything
  you need for the holiday
  weekend with some great
  products and gifts in-store.
  For only £9.99, the Easter
  Egg Hunt Kit will help keep the
  family amused, and there's...

• Calling all graduates!
  06

  Do you know a graduate or final
  year undergraduate looking for a
  varied career with exciting
  prospects and a good salary?
  Or are you one yourself?
  Then look no further! The
  answer could be right under
  your nose with...

• It's a classic
  06

  One of Sainsbury's products is on display at
  London's Victoria and Albert Museum - even
  though it's only a year old.
  Allium tableware from the General
  Merchandise range has been shortlisted in the
  Homes & Gardens Classic...

• Know your number
  06

  Business continuity awareness
  week is taking place again this year,
  starting 13 March, and it's never
  been more important for
  colleagues to familiarise
  themselves with the correct
  emergency procedures.
  The business...

• Keeping score with the supply chain
  07

  Supply chain colleagues are now tracking the
  success of their depots with scorecards - just
  like stores.
  The new supply chain scorecards were
  introduced on 24 January with the aim of
  ensuring that everyone understands...

• Sainsbury's Bank - eight and great
  07

  Congratulations to
  Sainsbury's Bank which
  celebrated its eighth
  birthday in February,
  complete with cake,
  candles and cards for colleagues.
  Since it began trading in 1997,
  the bank - which is jointly owned
  by J Sainsbury...

• Top sellers win points
  07

  Twelve stores have been rewarded for
  increasing their sales of Sainsbury's
  Magazine and selling more than the
  average number of copies, for three
  months in a row.
  The winners were identified in four
  main zones and 25,000...

• Buy, buy, bY
  08

  The spring/summer range of bY
  home and garden accessories is
  in-store now, and it's stylish stuff
  exclusive to Sainsbury's.
  This season, Terence Conran
  moves into the garden. There's
  beautifully sleek bY barbecue
  that's so...

• Fact
  08

  Figures reveal that
  the Jacqueline
  Wilson'My First
  Novel Kit', developed
  exclusively for
  Sainsbury's,
  out-sold the top
  doll brand Bratz
  across stores this
  Christmas.

• Keeping it in the family
  08

  Working for Sainsbury's has become a
  family affair in Letchworth. The store
  has not one, but seven motlier-anddaughter
  duos on its books!
  Tara Wilding joined as a catering
  assistant in the coffee shop a few
  months ago and...

• Glow from top to toe
  09

  Get your skin ready for warmer
  weather with the fabulous new
  range of 30 activeinaturals
  products coming to stores from
  April. And there's 20 per cent off
  all haircare products in March - the
  perfect excuse to get your locks...

• Pick a purple pepper
  09

  Add a splash of colour to your plates with new purple
  and brown peppers - available in-store from April.
  The new purple and brown peppers have a full,
  sweet flavour. And, as peppers have four times as
  much vitamin C as an...

• Zip it
  09

  We've got grape packaging all sewn up - thanks to
  a new zip-lock bag that keeps grapes in their
  packaging and prevents stray produce from
  ruining the display.
  Growers find the new-style bags more efficie
  to pack and they make...

• The Fun of Fitness
  10

  A new voucher collectjon
  ^chenr^ is offering schools
  hundreds of different
  ways tolget kids active We're all getting fatter. But we're
  actually eating fewer calories than
  we did a generation ago. So we
  need to exercise...

• "Everyone has a part to play in Active Kids"
  12

  We asked Marketing director Stephen Nelson to give us the low-down
  on Active Kids. No slouch himself, Stephen raced his bike non-stop
  through Death Valley, California, raising £36,000 for charity in 2003 Q Hi Stephen. You...

• Comic Relief
  13

  Colleagues get ready for fun and fundraising on Red Nose Day Jamie nose how
  to raise funds
  Jamie Oliver turns detective once
  again in the latest Sainsbury's ad.
  Jamie visited an orphanage in
  South Africa to see where some...

• Gl - is it just another fad diet?
  14

  Diets are big business - every
  season a new weight loss plan will
  come in and out of favour. Last
  year it was all about Atkins, now
  Gl is dominating the news. But
  what is it? And does it work?
  Dietician Kate...

• Retail Eye
  14

  • PROCTOR & GAMBLE has
  announced it will buy Gillette, for
  ntore than $57bn (£30bn),
  uniting two US producers of
  household goods.
  • ASDA is reportedly set to
  open eight more clothes shops
  this year under its George...

• Fact
  15

  Feltham depot
  has retained its
  Investors in People
  (IIP) accreditation,
  after an intense
  three-day
  assessment by
  external
  assessors.

• Shining Stars: Ringing the changes
  15

  Have you ever noticed a colleague
  doing a fantastic job and thought it
  would be nice to recognise their
  efforts? Well, now you can!
  Changes to Shining Stars mean
  that colleagues are now able to
  nominate each other for...

• "Charity is close to our hearts"
  16

  Rotherham
  depot has raised
  thousands of
  pounds-and
  counting-for
  charity Colleagues at Rotherham depot
  are a generous bunch when it
  comes to fundralsing.
  In 2004, they raised more than
  £6,000 for several charities...

• Festive fun in stores
  16

  Around 60 customers in
  Aberdeen were treated to
  mulled wine and mince pies at
  an evening to help them
  prepare for Christmas.
  Floral advisor Ina Douglas
  (bottom right) showed
  customers how to make a
  stunning floral...

• Ball keeps rolling
  17

  Simon Ball, customer service
  manager at Hornchurch,
  travelled a distance of 508
  miles on his bike last year, to
  raise money for charity.
  Simon took part in five
  sponsored cycle rides and
  raised £2,275 for
  Breakthrough...

• Briefs
  17

  • COCKERMOUTH teamed up
  with BBC Radio Cumbria to raise
  funds for BBC Children in Need
  by auctioning a signed Jamie
  Oliver book and a magnum of
  champagne live from the BBC
  Bus. Colleagues in-store packed
  bags in fancy...

• Jeans means donations
  17

  Colleagues at Kettering
  swapped their uniforms
  for jeans and raised £145
  for eight children's
  charities on Jeans for
  Genes Day.
  They paid £1 each to
  wear their jeans and
  customers could make
  donations to the appeal...

• Tell Justin
  18

  The Tell Justin scheme is now six months old and has already generated
  more than 6,000 suggestions from colleagues. Here, we look at some of
  the most popular issues mentioned so far EUROHOOKS
  Many of you have noticed
  issues...

• Get into the Brazilian spirit with Bravara
  19

  As the summer months draw
  closer, why not start planning
  your own Brazilian carnival
  party at home to get you in the
  mood?
  Brazilian beer-maker Bravara
  is offering five lucky readers the
  chance to win a party pack,
  worth...

• Happy Birthday PG Tips!
  19

  This year, it's the 75th anniversary of PG
  Tips. To mark the occasion, PG Tips is adding
  a new variety to its range. PG Tips Special
  Blend Limited Edition is a robust tasting,
  golden tea specially blended from Kenyan
  and...

• Product Tests
  20

  The exciting new spring/summer range of Tu clothing is in-store
  now. We asked colleagues at Hedge End to give us their verdict TISH BELTON
  Tu sales assistant
  "This top is really comfortable -1
  don't want to take it off I...