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Mar 21, 2022 · A video of several iconic images taken of the Sainsbury's at Cameron Toll Shopping Centre have surfaced, which show the store in all its glory when it was known as the SavaCentre.
A history of the Savacentre hypermarket chain. Sainsbury’s began the 1970s in a strong position. Profits were good and branches were opening across an ever-increasing area. But new chairman John Davan Sainsbury always had an eye on wider developments in retailing and opportunities to diversify.
May 17, 2019 · An impressive 32,000 Wearside Echoes followers get our thanks for their amazing response to an archive photograph from 41 years ago. It showed SavaCentre in the Washington Galleries in 1978,...
The initial response by Sainsbury's was a 50:50 joint enterprise with British Home Stores, set up on 9 December 1975 as Sabre Hypermarkets Limited, which was changed to Savacentre Limited on 31 December 1976.
The History of Savacentre. Listen to Archivist, Allison Foster, give a talk about Sainsbury's answer to the hypermarket.
The initial idea. In the 1970s, the then chairman and chief executive of Sainsbury's, John Davan Sainsbury (later Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover), realised the threat from the emergence of hypermarkets, such as those being built by the French retailer Carrefour.
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Mar 21, 2022 · SavaCentre at Cameron Toll once stood where the huge Sainsbury's store does now, with the supermarket chain actually owning the shop, with its trademark orange logo being carried forward for more than three decades.
