Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury

Alan John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Drury Lane ( born 13 August 1902; † 21 October 1998) in the Borough of Holborn in the County of London was a British politician of the Liberal Party, Labour Party, and most recently the Social Democratic Party ( SDP), business managers, and entrepreneurs who contributed to the success of supermarket chain J Sainsbury and 1962 was largely due to the peer as Life peerages Life Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Family, the beginning of the career and unsuccessful House candidate

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

After visiting the Haileybury and Imperial Service College in Hertford Heath Alan Sainsbury met with his youngest uncle Paul Sainsbury 1921 as buyers in the company. From his 1925 and 1939 closed divorced with Doreen Davan Adams 's three sons were born, John, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover as the Conservative Party Member of the House of Lords was later, Simon David, and Timothy " Tim " Alan, the 24-year long represented the conservative Party in the House of Commons and several junior ministerial posts held.

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

CEO of J Sainsbury and the House of Lords member

In 1933 he became first director of the family business before he. Together with his younger brother Robert Sainsbury, father of the late Minister of Science and Baron Sainsbury of Turville, David Sainsbury, after a heart attack of her father, John Benjamin Sainsbury jointly Managing Director of J. Sainsbury Ltd. been. In 1944 he married his second wife Elizabeth Lewy and had with her ​​daughter Paulette. In the following years, Alan Sainsbury was the leaked 1945 from the Liberal Party and member of the Labour Party, was instrumental in after a visit to the U.S. on the introduction of self -service stores in the UK and converted in 1950, the branch in Croydon, against the resistance of customers and employee into a self-service business.

After his father's death in 1956 was Alan Sainsbury CEO of J Sainsbury. He broke the one hand with the family tradition when it came to the closure of the first business in 173 Drury Lane in 1958. On the other hand, he continued the modernization of the company by expanding the product range to include fresh food and frozen food such as oven-ready, frozen chicken and took in 1959 the introduction of the slogan Good Food Costs Less At Sainsbury's before.

By Letters Patent of May 3, 1962, Alan Sainsbury as a life peer with the title Baron Sainsbury of Drury Lane in the Borough of Holborn in the County of London raised to the peerage, and was thus until his death in the House of Lords as Member of.

Baron Sainsbury began in 1964 with the first commercial step in the modernization of the company. He was 1965-1967 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 the National Health Service ).

He entered 1967 as CEO of J Sainsbury and was president for life, after which his younger brother Sir Robert Sainsbury was appointed Chief Executive Officer. After this in 1969 also resigned and was also president for life, followed Alan Sainsbury's eldest son John Davan Sainsbury as the new CEO. At this time, the company consisted of 244 branches, of which 162 were already self-service shops. The average size of the transactions was 750 square feet with a range of around 4000 products, of which 1500 were its own products. The IPO of J Sainsbury on July 12, 1973 was the largest ever on the London Stock Exchange.

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