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J Sainsbury plc
Business Description
Extracted on: 30 Oct 2011 Reference Code: 46B84927-E7BB-4E7F-91EC-06D95D2658CB Publication Date: 20 May 2011 Publisher: Datamonitor

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J Sainsbury plc
Business Description

J Sainsbury (Sainsbury or 'the company') is engaged in retailing, financial services, and property investment businesses in the UK. The company's retail stores and website offers a range of food and non-food products primarily under the Sainsbury's brand. In addition, it provides banking services like insurance, credit cards, savings products, and loans. *The company's business is organized into three operating segments: retailing (supermarkets and convenience), financial services (Sainsbury's Bank joint venture), and property investment (British Land joint venture and Land Securities joint venture). The retailing segment of the company serves over 19 million customers weekly through a network of 872 stores including 335 convenience stores and 537 supermarkets. The supermarkets offer 30,000 varieties of food products and wide array of complementary non-food products and services. The segment also operates internet-based home delivery website, Sainsbury's online. The website reaches out to nearly 90% of UK households. Over 8,000 non-food products were also incorporated in the website recently. Financial services segment consists of the operations of Sainsbury's Bank (trading as Sainsbury Finance). The bank is jointly owned by J Sainsbury and Lloyds Banking Group. The products offered by Sainsbury Bank include: saving products, loan products, credit cards and a number of insurance products to over 1.4 million active customer accounts. The property investment segment includes the operations of the joint ventures with Land Securities Group and The British Land Company. The property portfolio includes 297 freehold and long leasehold properties, and 43 properties within joint venture arrangements. *According to the company's annual report, its segment revenues solely comprise of retail business and hence the financial reporting is based on one segment.

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