Honda offers dealers customised magazine

Honda has launched a versioned edition of its customer magazine, Dream, that enables its UK dealerships to include personalised content geared towards their local clients.

Dream, which is published by River Publishing and printed by St Ives, now offers each dealership a customisable four- or six-page cover section via St Ives' Connected Thinking business.

Eight dealers have taken up the pilot, choosing images and uploading their own welcome letter and local news stories via a web interface, as well as choosing a regionalised outside back cover ad.

The first issue of the 20pp 240x180mm magazine had a print run of 14,000 and was printed on recycled stock and distributed in July.

Honda’s marketing communications executive Liz Bojarczuk said: "We hope to create a marketing tool that will introduce new and unique content to dealerships, while also building brand advocacy and extending the customer experience once they leave the dealership - it's a really exciting step forward."

The company is now looking at rolling out the versioned magazine on a regular basis from next year.