Millennium product

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The Millennium Product status was awarded by the Design Council to British products and companies which show "imagination, ingenuity and inspiration" as well as "innovation, creativity and design".{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=12341 |title=TONY BLAIR UNVEILS FINAL MILLENNIUM PRODUCTS |website=www.prnewswire.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608080905/http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=12341 |archive-date=2011-06-08}}

Over 4,000 products were submitted, and 1,012 were selected for the award.{{cite web|title=Millennium Products|url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/our-history/millennium-products/|work=Design Council|accessdate=5 June 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827103933/http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/Our-History/Millennium-Products/|archivedate=27 August 2013}} The products were exhibited adjacent to the Millennium Dome during 2000.

Sainsbury's Greenwich, the supermarket chain's flagship store, was awarded Millennium Product status on 14 December 1999.{{cite journal |author1=Ron Slade |author2=Andrew Woodward |author3=Iain Shaw |title=Sainsbury's millennium store at Greenwich peninsula |journal=Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering |date=May 2000 |volume=138 |issue=3 |pages=112-118}}