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Applecart advises the C-Suites of hundreds of industry-leading organizations spanning dozens of Fortune 500 companies, top communications and advertising agencies, major trade associations, leading nonprofit organizations, and governments – from Blackstone and the Business Roundtable to Intuit and the Environmental Defense Fund. Applecart’s platform enables CEOs, Chief Corporate Affairs Officers, CCOs, CMOs and other C-Suite executives to generate visibility for their most valuable content with critical decision makers and those in their orbits across nearly any channel.

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