* 2001, J Sainsbury headquarters, Holborn Circus, London, UK

J Sainsbury plc, Asda, KKR ( the company which sold Safeway to Argyll in 1986 ), Trackdean Investments Limited ( controlled by Philip Green, owner of BHS and Arcadia ), and Tesco all said they were considering making offers.

173 Drury Lane was the location of the first J Sainsbury store, now one of the UK's largest retailers.

In 1997 Sainsbury's Bank was established – a joint venture between J Sainsbury plc and the Bank of Scotland, now part of the Lloyds Banking Group.

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In October 1980, retail giant J Sainsbury opened one of its first SavaCentre hypermarkets in Oldbury town centre.

A J Sainsbury supermarket was also added to the town centre around this time.

The picture is of the rear of what is now Poundland ( Bromley Toy Fayre and Bramber Womenswear at the time ) to the right and the car park above Argos ( J Sainsbury at the time )

The only high profile casualty was the J Sainsbury supermarket, which closed in 1992 due to the popularity of the store which had opened at Merry Hill three years earlier to succeed the Dudley store-combined with the onset of the recession at the start of the 1990s.

The system was first used in the early 1970s by J. Sainsbury to identify all of its products on supermarket shelves for its product restocking system.

David Sainsbury joined the family firm, then known as ' J.

He became a director of the Company, then known as J. Sainsbury Ltd., in 1958, becoming Deputy Chairman in 1967 following his father Alan Sainsbury's retirement.

Although Lord Sainsbury has retired, he is Life President of the retailer and continues to take an active interest in the business ; these days he tours stores with present chief executive Justin King, as well as being the family member always attending J Sainsbury plc Annual General Meetings.

J Sainsbury plc was informed on 5 December 2006 by Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, that he no longer holds a reportable interest in the Company following the transfer of shares within his family.

When the Company listed on the London Stock Exchange on 12 July 1973, as J Sainsbury plc, his family at the time kept control with an 85 % stake.

Lord Sainsbury is the former Chairman of J Sainsbury plc and current Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

On 2 May 2006, J Sainsbury plc, the UK supermarket group, announced Ford was joining the company as a non-executive director.

Sir Peter Davis ( born 23 December 1941 ) is a British businessman, who was until June 2004, the chairman of J Sainsbury plc, which operates the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

He worked for J Sainsbury from 1976 to 1986 and was responsible for all buying and marketing operations.

Sainsbury's Bank is a 50: 50 joint venture between J Sainsbury ( a leading UK food retailer ) and Bank of Scotland ( a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group ).

On 3 September 2008, The Irish Times reported that a number of approaches had been made to buy Superquinn, including from BWG Foods Limited, The Musgrave Group plc, J Sainsbury plc, and Asda Stores Limited.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The late J. Irwin Miller ( then president and chairman of Cummins Engine Company ) launched the Cummins Foundation, a charitable program that helps subsidize a large number of architectural projects throughout the city by up-and-coming engineers and architects.

The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.

In 2007, Mizell's wife, Terry, Simmons, and McDaniels also launched the J. A. M.

The Federal Party ( FP ) launched a movement of non-violent resistance ( satyagraha ) against the bill, which prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement ( Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact ) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict.

Shortly after his arrival at Champlieu, the British launched what was then the largest armoured attack of the war at the Battle of Cambrai, and at the conclusion of his tour, on December 1, Patton went to Albert, from Cambrai, to be briefed on the recent attack by the chief of staff of the British Tank Corps, Colonel J. F. C. Fuller.

To that end, Hill was a major figure in the effort launched by J. P. Morgan to float the Anglo-French Bond drive of 1915, which allowed the Allies to purchase much-needed foodstuffs and other supplies.

J. Frank Norris launched an offensive against racetrack gambling in the Baptist Standard and used the pulpit of the First Baptist Church to attack vice and prostitution.

F. & J. Heinz launched their tomato ketchup in 1876.

), during part of the Voyager Program ( space probes launched in 1977 ), and he served as the Director of the J. P. L.

In what was formerly Home ( a seven-floor superclub launched in 1999, which went into receivership after having its licence revoked by police for one month in March 2001 because of drugs issues, and at which Paul Oakenfold was a resident D. J.

The Progress, which was launched in 1910 with J. W.

Along the way, the duo launched the temporary running gag that made them near-irrevocable radio stars: the famous hunt for Gracie's " lost brother ," which began on January 4, 1933 and eventually became a cross-network phenomenon --- Gracie was also liable to turn up on other shows ( especially those produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, which produced the Burns & Allen series ) looking for her brother.

The ninth comic launched at Vertigo's 1993 debut was the Vertigo Preview, showcasing the concurrently released titles, as well as J. M. DeMatteis ' Mercy, Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity ( an ongoing series spun off from the earlier Morrison-penned miniseries ), Dick Foreman's Black Orchid ( an on-going series spun off from the Gaiman / McKean miniseries ) and Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre.

* The Andrews Sisters launched a comical song called " Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J ." in 1948 which included a visit to the borough.

In January 2001, Upside launched UpsideFN, a New York-based online radio network headed by J. T.

The association was then officially launched on 1 July 1967, the 100th anniversary of the formation of Canadian Confederation, with Governor General Roland Michener being the first inductee to the order — to the level of Companion — and on 7 July of the same year, 90 more people were appointed, including Vincent Massey, Louis St. Laurent, Hugh MacLennan, David Bauer, Gabrielle Roy, Donald Creighton, Thérèse Casgrain, Wilder Penfield, Arthur Lismer, M. J. Coldwell, Edwin Baker, Alex Colville, and Maurice Richard.

Geitner and J. R. von Gersdoff of Schneeburg duly won the prize and launched their " German silver " under the trade names Argentan and Neusilber ( new silver )

News-Week was launched in 1933 by Thomas J. C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor for Time.

In 1952, broadcast pioneer J. Conrad Lavigne launched CFCL, the first French-language radio station in Ontario.

Byker Grove launched the careers of Anthony McPartlin (" P. J.

When in 1969 his predecessor as Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, launched his campaign for the Presidency of the PNP, he turned to P. J. Patterson, youngest of the highest-ranking segment of the party executive, to lead his campaign.

Red Herring was originally launched in May 1993 by Anthony B. Perkins, Christopher J. Alden, and Zachary A. Herlick out of the home of Alden's parents in Woodside, California.

One of the victims June Hancock launched a court action against Turner & Newall, the company that owned the J W Roberts ' factory in 1993.

In 1998, Miami entrepreneur Ivan J. Parron, president of successful web development company Internet Marketing Consultants, Inc., founded and launched Ritmoteca. com as one of the early online music store business models.