Business Career
Sainsbury trained as a chartered accountant after leaving university. He joined the finance department of the family company, then known as J. Sainsbury, in 1956 and became a director in 1959, responsible for finance. When his brother John became chairman of Sainsbury's in 1969 and Simon was given the deputy chairmanship. In 1973, it was Simon who steered the company through what became the largest ever flotation on the London Stock Exchange.
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