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J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, [2] with a 14.6% share of UK supermarket sales in September 2022. [3] Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of ...
1869-1899. It was 1869 when John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann opened the first Sainsbury's store on London's Drury Lane. The business didn't take long to flourish, proving popular with locals due to the high quality yet affordable goods on offer. By 1881, three more stores were opened to help cater for the growing demand.
With typical caution, Sainsbury's did not actually use the word supermarket in its own communications until the late 1960s, even though it owned almost 100. Nonetheless, the company was at the forefront of new technology. In 1961, for example, Sainsbury's became Britain's first food retailer to computerize its distribution system.
SA/SC/JSJ/21/8 'JS Journal', December 1967, p.12. The first range of Sainsbury’s table wines included reds, whites and a rosé. They came from France, Spain, Germany and Yugoslavia. Labels for early own-brand bottles were fairly simple and featured an image of a ship, highlighting that the wine was produced abroad.
- Early History
- Steady Growth in The Early 20th Century
- Postwar Recovery
- Diversifying in The 1970s and 1980s
- Challenging Times in The Highly Competitive 1990s
- Principal Subsidiaries
- Further Reading
Sainsbury’s was off to a romantic but practical start in 1869 when two young employees of neighboring London shops met, married, and started a small dairy store in their three-story Drury Lane home. Mary Ann Staples, 19, had grown up in her father’s dairy business. John James Sainsbury, 25, had worked for a hardware merchant and grocer. Their shop ...
By the beginning of the 20th century sons John Benjamin, George, and Arthur were working in the family business; they and other company employees were trained with equal care and attention to detail. Alfred and Paul went through the same training when they joined the company in 1906 and 1921, respectively. Frank, the third son, took up poultry and ...
Long before the last of the wartime restrictions were lifted in 1954, the brothers had begun an aggressive recovery program. Basic operations were recentralized to regain the economies of scale that kept prices down while retaining a substantial profit margin. Alan studied America’s burgeoning supermarkets and opened the first self-service Sainsbur...
Sainsbury’s centenary, 1969, sparked a series of rapid changes. Alan’s son, John, became chairman of a new management tier, which reported directly to the board of directors. Departmental directors were given greater responsibility for operating functions to strengthen the centralized control that had always been company policy. With ordering, ware...
The company boosted its holdings in the United States with the 1994 acquisition of a 50 percent voting stake and 16 percent nonvoting equity in Giant Food Inc., a Washington, D.C.-area chain with 159 stores. Sainsbury’s increased its nonvoting equity to 20 percent in 1996 and was widely expected to purchase the remaining shares by the end of the de...
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd.; J Sainsbury Developments Ltd.; Shaw’s Supermarkets Inc. (U.S.A.); Sainsbury’s Bank plc (55%).
Bagnall, Sarah, “How King of the Grocers Was Eased Off Its Throne: Arrogance and Complacency Blamed for Sainsbury’s Decline,” Times(London), May 9, 1996. Beck, Ernest, “Britain’s Ailing Sainsbury Faces Stark Choice,” Wall Street Journal, October 25, 1999, p. A49I. Bernoth, Ardyn, and Matthew Lynn, “Counter Attack: Profile—David Sainsbury,” Times(Lo...
1869-1899. It was 1869 when John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann opened the first Sainsbury's store on London's Drury Lane. The business didn't take long to flourish, proving popular with locals due to the high quality yet affordable goods on offer. By 1881, three more stores were opened to help cater for the growing demand.
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A history of innovation. 1869. When John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury opened their first shop at 173 Drury Lane, London, few people could afford pure food, and the Sainsbury’s shop became one of the first places the average housewife could buy top quality butter, milk and eggs. SA/BRA/7/D/11/1/2 Image of 173 Drury Lane, London branch exterior ...
