JS JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED FOR EMPLOYEES OF SAINSBURY'S SUPERMARKETS, SAVACENTRE AND HOMEBASE 1 FINANCIAL RESULTS SPECIAL NEWSROUND This month features our annual pull-out Employee Report, giving you the year-end financial results and reporting on the Group businesses over the year, together with the board's plans for the future. We've also got the Help for staff who top management to reply to the questions you've raised about the business. Why is Phil Woodland, In the main part of your magazine we've got features manager of Badger Farm in were mis-sold a on this summer's Special Olympics and how one member Winchester, sharing a bowl of pasta with the great tenor? of staff looked at food preparation from a different angle Find out on the opposite page. personal pension - catering for the British army in Bosnia. We also bring you the latest news, store openings, The trustees of the £2 billion set the pattern for a much- SSA bargains and competitions. So get stuck in! Sainsbury pension fund are needed acceleration in the Best wishes, speeding up the process of handling of all those people redress for the 600 plus who were mis-sold personal fibecca fVWriS Sainsbury's employees who pensions: "We are optimistic previously left the ^^^m ••IB that as many cases company scheme as possible can be Sainsbury's carries the torch and were mis-sold settled in the next for the Special Olympics this We are personal pension three months," he summer, see page 5. optimistic that 2 : Newsround plans. said. as many cases 5 : Under starters' orders Sainsbury's will If you are now a give personal pen­ as possible can member of the JS Tlie Special Olympics begins in July with a torcli run via Sainsbury's stores sion providers a be settled in Pension Scheme but reinstatement quote the next three believe that you had 6 : Store openings within seven days 11 previously been mis- and will guarantee months. sold a personal pen- 8 : Writelines the quote for three ^^^" ^•^ sion, contact your Letters page months. The only informa­ personnel manager or the tion the pension providers Pensions Department at 10 : Out and about need to supply Sainsbury's Norwich House, Streatham. Your activities instore - and out of hours Savacentre Leeds celebrates with is the name, national They will provide you, and its opening with a very insurance number and period whoever mis-sold the person­ special cake, see page 7. 12 : What's new instore of pensionable service to be al pension, with a statement Latest product news reinstated. showing how much it will cost to buy back the missing 14 : Pit your wits Sainsbury's pensions period of pensionable service The competitions and puzzle page manager Geof Pearson bel­ ieves that their initiative will within the Sainsbury scheme. 16 : Suppliers get a grilling JS quizzes its suppliers in an informal battle of wits Sights, sounds and smells on show Homebase plans something special for this year's Hampton Court Flower Show 17 : Feeding the five thousand Marketing's Eleanor Cooke takes a different look at food preparation - how the army feeds its troops m Bosnia Winners Discover fun on the Continent with the SSA, Our January/February competition winners page 18. 18 : SSA 19 : People Weddings, retirements and long service A six-foot Tommy Pickles delights his adoring fans at London's Cromwell Road store to mark the start of the donation period. Sound and vision 20 : Archives Our special 12-page pull-out guide tells you all you need Raising money is a PLUS - Special Employee Report to know about this year's Your 12-page pull-out guide to the year-end financial results financial results. piece of cake JS has donated £850 to birthday cake sold over the MANAGING EDITOR : Chris Boffey JS JOURNAL, J SAINSBURY PLC DRURY HOUSE, STAMFORD STREE Tommy's Campaign with the Easter period was given to EDITOR : Rebecca Morris LONDON SEI 9LL help of TV's Rug Rats charac­ the charity, which funds TEL: 0171-921 8181 EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS : Jon Carpenter and Carol Hurd ter Tommy Pickles. A slice of research into the causes of E-mail JS.Journal the takings from each premature birth, still birth DESIGN : Helen Jones @ JS.btx400.co.uk \ Tommy Pickles celebration and miscarriage. PRINTING : Keldia Printing Co. Ld. PRODUCED BY GROUP INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS JS JOURNAL NEWSROUND Veterans reunite Is your bakery Pavanotti! a thorough- Thousands of JS group veterans got together in bre(a)d? Not quite the maestro, but also enjoyed demonstrations Eighteen of JS Bakeries' top Pavarotti lookalike Colin of Italian cookery held in JS Birmingham and London for this year's round of suppliers have joined forces Miller hit the right note when coffee shops. Pictured with with Sainsbury's to sponsor he launched Sainsbury's Colin is Angle Warburton, veterans' reunions. our own Regional Bakery of instore Italian promotion last checkout/replenishment the Year awards. month. Customers in 10 assistant at Hedge End in The suppliers are curr­ stores around the country Southampton. ently visiting every 'scratch' (in-store) bakery in the company to judge it from a customer's eye view. The top nine in each region will receive a behind-the-scenes visit to assess teamwork, busi­ ness focus, the working environment and innovation. The best three in each region will win big team prizes and the managers will be put forward for the British Baker magazine's National In­ store Bakery Manager of the Vatarani meat at tha Royal Lancastar Hotel, London. Year Award awards in October. This is the 49th year that and Susie Sainsbury, and the So if you haven't been reunions have been held for Birmingham event by Tom visited yet - you soon will be! retired staff and the first year and Anne Vyner. that Birmingham has been a Alan Gorham, chairman venue. Attendees were treat­ of the veterans' group, Buying into the ed to a slap-up meal and a stepped down this year after chance to catch up with form­ his five-year term came to an new trading er colleagues. The London end. He will be replaced by course events were hosted by David Eric NichoUs. Sainsbury's surfs clean ahead Chief exeouUve DIno Adriano talk* to soma of the luccatsful trainee Sainsbury's commitment Sainsbury's has also buyers. to the environment sees become the first food us surging ahead of our retailer to register its Dino Adriano presented 11 competitors. support for the Marine graduates with a Certificate The company, which Stewardship Council, of Trading at Fanhams Hall last year was the first which aims to ensure the recendy, the first to complete supermarket retailer to long-term viability of successfully a new trading produce an global fish populations examination. environmental report, has and the health of the This new training prog­ won the Best First Time marine ecosystems on Reporter category for the which they depend. ramme, which began last document in the Trading director Bob September was designed to help individuals understand Association of Chartered Cooper said: "By working •lar, JaUa Skriavtwi, Certified Accountants' with the MSC and our launeli the wtfe alto witli a saka. the key attributes to achiev­ (ACCA) Environmental suppliers we will be able to and schools, who want to vouchers which runs until ing all-round trading abiUty. Reporting Awards. seek new solutions to the find out more about 16 June. The course covers areas ACCA said the report serious problem of over­ Sainsbury's work on good The web site is divided such as supplier ethics, nego­ "stood out for its clarity of fishing and the use of environmental practice, into three main sections: tiation, marketing and envir­ exposition and compre­ indiscriminate fishing the company has What's New, Environment onmental affairs and guides practices." launched its Environment hensiveness of coverage of Report and For Schools, and the buyer through the first the key environmental Web Site, with a can be found on: And for techies six months of his or her issues facing the everywhere, from staff, competition to win http://www.sainsburys.co. professional trading career. business". customers, shareholders Equipment for Schools uk/environment. MAY 1997 NEVIfSROUND The show Sainsbury's saves energy goes on Sainsbury's is planning to and gains an award exhibit at some 17 shows in the next 12 months (and will Ian Taylor, principal engin­ an energy management be sponsoring a number of eer, Sainsbury's energy team policy and reporting proce­ their events), so make a date at Blackfriars, recently dures and that we invest in in your diary! received an award from Peter actual and planned efiiciency 14-16 May Balmoral Show, Johnson, president of the measures and have maintain­ Belfast, Northern Ireland Institute of Energy, for ed continuous improvement Sainsbury's high level of 20-23 May Chelsea Flower Show, over the past three years. London achievement in the field of "The award reinforces energy efficiency. This is the the already successful perfor­ 28-31 May Bath & West Show, Shepton Mallet, first award which encom­ mance across the Group in Somerset passes all the aspects of using energy efficiently, 5-7 June South of England Show, Sainsbury's Group energy substantiating our reputation Ardingly, West Sussex policy. for being one of the best 19-22 June Royal Highland Show, Ian said: "To qualify we companies in the UK in the Edinburgh had to demonstrate that practical application of Sainsbury's has in place both energy efficiency." pj^ 25-26 June Royal Norfolk Show, Norwich, Norfolk 30 June - Royal Show, Liverpool stores race to help Fighting the battle in 3 July Stoneleigh, Warwickshire 8-10 July Great Yorkshire Show, in Grand National rescue Hampshire's War on Waste Harrogate, Yorkshire Following last month's bomb scare at the Grand National at 10-12 July Kent Show, Detling, Kent Liverpool's Aintree Racecourse, local JS stores in Philip Whitehead's 30 July Nantwich Cheese Show, Nantwich, Cheshire district - Woolton, Crosby and East Prescot Road - came to the rescue, supplying £500 worth of breakfast items to stranded racegoers.