'Sainsbury's Journal', July/August 2009

Table of content

• Contents
  02

  NEWS
  Check out some of our highlights
  over the years and see how we
  became the business we are today!
  RECIPES
  We have a look at some recipes from
  our first and current celebrity chefs.
  WEIRD AND
  WONDERFUL
  From egg boys to...

• Guest Editor Ernest Rabbit
  03

  I'm honoured to have been invited to be
  the guest editor of this very special 140th birthday
  Journal.
  Reading about the Lloyd Maunder chickens
  on page 11 reminded me of when all our birds
  would arrive at the store still...

• Justin talks
  03

  This special edition of the Journal
  marks our 140th birthday and as we
  celebrate this fantastic milestone
  it's amazing to see how much we've
  achieved. John and Mary Sainsbury
  opened our first store on Drury
  Lane in 1869 and...

• Sainsbury's News from 1869-1950
  04

  Drury Lane opens
  1869
  Our first store
  on Drury Lane
  was opened
  in 1869 by
  John James
  Sainsbury
  and his wife
  Mary Ann.
  WOMEN!
  Your
  Sainsbury's
  store needs
  YOU
  During the First World War
  (1914-1918), we were one
  of...

• Sainsbury's News from 1950-1977
  05

  Dressing the nation
  In 1973 we started selling
  our own brand clothes at
  Telford. Our fantastic fashion
  included ladies 'skinny-rib'
  sweaters for £2.00 and
  some very hip flared jeans,
  a bargain at £3.80.
  Our own brand...

• Sainsbury's News from 1977-2009
  05

  Best of British In the 1980s we worked
  with the Ministry of
  Agriculture, Fisheries and
  Food to promote great
  British produce. Sales soared
  - we'd never eaten so well!
  Bells, Jackson's
  (and the rest!)
  join the family
  The...

• A taste of the past... and of the present
  06

  You may think that Jamie Oliver was our first celebrity chef, but think
  again! Before he joined us as our top celeb chef in 2000, Josceline
  Dimbleby, wife of BBC journalist and Question Time presenter Jonathan
  Dimbleby, cooked...

• Weird and Wonderful: Egg boys & landladies
  07

  We've always been 'A
  great place to work' and
  also an interesting one.
  Over the past 140 years
  there have been lots
  of weird and wonderful
  things that our colleagues
  have been a part of. | Carole Jones, Halifax, won...

• Colleagues in the community: Charity begins with you
  08

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• Tasty treats throughout the years
  10

  We have always been passionate about food and giving
  our customers healthy, fresh and tasty food is really
  important to us. From stuffing the meatiest sausage
  to finding the perfect cup of tea to start the day, we've
  always...

• Lloyd Maunder: Birds of a feather
  11

  If we didn't care about where our food comes from - and who
  supplies it to us - we wouldn't be Sainsbury's! Throughout
  our 140 years we've developed great relationships with
  our suppliers so that we can provide our customers...

• Time Capsule: A message to the future
  12

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  -SHE SKSSSSS- =Fr i With all our items and memories chosen it was time to bury
  the time capsule - where better...

• Your stories: Local memories
  14

  We asked you to send
  in some of your
  memories from working
  at Sainsbury's. We got
  a really great response
  as the memories of the
  past came flooding in.
  Here are some of
  our favourites. We Want your memories!
  Write to us...

• Did you know?
  16

  Where there's grease, there s soa
  Maxwell Caulfield, the Lord of Home Farm in
  Emmerdale, and former star of Grease 2, used to
  work in the meat department at his local store. In the beginning we
  kept our products...