Sainsbury’s – How customer magazines are helping make Sainsbury’s great again

Sainsbury's Magazine was launched by Delia Smith in 1993 and over time it built up a paid-for monthly readership of 320,000 copies.
Agency: Seven SquaredAuthors: Kevin Sutherland

Sainsbury's – How customer magazines are helping make Sainsbury's great again

INTRODUCTION

Over the course of the past thirty years, customer magazines have helped to build brands, strengthen customer relationships, drive direct response and generate incremental profits for the brands that choose to invest in them. And yet their contribution is often overlooked.

Most customer magazines are a marketing investment. They exist primarily to build, position and reposition brands, to sell product and to maintain and grow strong customer relationships. In this respect they have more in common with other forms of...

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