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| | In a nation of shopkeepers, meet the first family | Business | The Observer |
 | | Others on the family shareholder register are David Sainsbury, Sir Timothy Sainsbury, the former Conservative Trade Minister, his wife, Lady Sainsbury, and Simon Sainsbury, patron of the arts and donor to various charities. |
 | | The Sainsbury family is reputedly worth £1.5 billion, compared with £3bn in 2002, reflecting a fall in the value of their shares. |
 | | When he was in charge of the company, he was blamed by some investors for losing Sainsbury's top slot to Tesco and reporting the company's first fall in profits in 22 years in 1996, as well as issuing three profits warnings in four years. |
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