Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury

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Alan John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury (born August 13, 1902 , † October 21, 1998 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party , Labor Party and most recently the Social Democratic Party (SDP), economic manager and entrepreneur , who was instrumental in the success of the supermarket chain J. Sainsbury contributed and became a member of the House of Lords in 1962 as Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Family, beginning of professional career and unsuccessful candidate for the lower house

Alan Sainsbury was a grandson of John James Sainsbury who, together with his wife Mary Ann Staples Sainsbury, opened the first grocery store on Drury Lane in Holborn in 1869, thus laying the foundation for the J Sainsbury supermarket chain that emerged from the family business. His father, John Benjamin Sainsbury, was the eldest son of John James Sainsbury and became CEO of the company after his death in 1928.

After attending Haileybury and Imperial Service College at Hertford Heath , Alan Sainsbury and his youngest uncle Paul Sainsbury joined the company as a buyer in 1921. His marriage to Doreen Davan Adams in 1925 and divorced in 1939 resulted in three sons, John , who later became a member of the House of Lords for the Conservative Party as Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover , Simon David and Timothy "Tim" Alan , who was 24 years old long represented the Conservative Tories in the House of Commons and held several junior ministerial posts.

In addition to his professional career, Sainsbury was also politically involved in the Liberal Party, for which he unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election on May 30, 1929 in the Sudbury constituency .

J Sainsbury's Chairman and Member of the House of Lords

In 1933 he became director of the family business before he became Managing Director of J. Sainsbury Ltd. together with his younger brother Robert Sainsbury , father of the later Minister of Science and Baron Sainsbury of Turville, David Sainsbury , after a heart attack on their father John Benjamin Sainsbury. has been. In 1944 he married Elizabeth Lewy for the second time and had a daughter with her, Paulette. In the following years, Alan Sainsbury, who left the Liberal Party in 1945 and became a member of the Labor Party, was instrumental in the introduction of self-service stores in Great Britain after a visit to the USA and in 1950 converted the branch in Croydon against resistance from customers and Employees in a self-service store.

After his father's death in 1956, Alan Sainsbury became Chairman of the Board of J Sainsbury. On the one hand, he broke with family tradition when the first shop in 173 Drury Lane closed in 1958. On the other hand, he continued to modernize the company by expanding the product range to include fresh and frozen foods such as oven-ready, frozen chickens, and in 1959 he introduced the slogan Good Food Costs Less At Sainsbury’s .

By a letters patent dated May 3, 1962, Alan Sainsbury was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Sainsbury , of Drury Lane in the Borough of Holborn in the County of London, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member.

Baron Sainsbury continued modernizing the company with the first commercial in 1964 . He was 1965 to 1967 and chairman of a committee to study the relationships between pharmaceutical companies and the National Health Service ( Committee of Inquiry into Relationship of Pharmaceutical Industry with National Health Service ).

He resigned as Chairman of the Board of J Sainsbury in 1967 and became President for life, following which his younger brother Sir Robert Sainsbury became the new Chairman. After he resigned in 1969 and also became president for life, Alan Sainsbury's eldest son, John Davan Sainsbury, followed as the new CEO. At that time, the company had 244 branches, 162 of which were already self-service stores. The average store area was 750 square meters with an assortment of around 4,000 products, 1,500 of which were own products. The IPO of J Sainsbury on 12 July 1973, the largest ever on the London Stock Exchange .

In 1981 Baron Sainsbury finally resigned from the Labor Party and was one of the prominent supporters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on March 26, 1981 through the former Labor politicians Roy Jenkins , David Owen , Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams , the so-called Gang of Four .

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SURNAME Sainsbury, Alan, Baron Sainsbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sainsbury, Alan John, Baron Sainsbury (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British manager, entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1902
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1998