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John Sainsbury

John James Sainsbury (1844–1928), co-founder of the major UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's


Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury

He became a director of the Company, then known as J. Sainsbury Ltd., in 1933 and became joint managing director of Sainsbury's with his brother Robert Sainsbury in 1938 after his father, John Benjamin Sainsbury (the eldest son of Sainsbury's founder John James Sainsbury), had a minor heart attack.


see also

John Sainsbury

John Benjamin Sainsbury (1871–1956), eldest son of John James Sainsbury and Sainsbury's chairman 1928-1956

John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover (born 1927), great-grandson of John James Sainsbury and Sainsbury's chairman 1969-1992