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letsdothis3 ago

John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sainsbury,_Baron_Sainsbury_of_Preston_Candover

John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG (born 2 November 1927) is the President of Sainsbury's, a British businessman, and a politician. He sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.

He was knighted in 1980 for services to the food retailing industry,[2][3] and was made a life peer on 31 January 1989 with the title Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, of Preston Candover in the County of Hampshire.[4][5] He became a Knight of the Garter in 1992.

He led Sainsbury's into the USA through the purchase of Shaw's, a USA supermarket chain, and started both the Homebase and Savacentre ventures. Shaw's and Homebase have since been sold, whilst Savacentre has been re-branded under the core Sainsbury's brand.

He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

In 1993, he joined with Lord Rothschild to set up the Butrint Foundation to record and conserve the archaeological site of Butrint in Albania.