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DKC and Forum Strategies & Communications joined forces Accelerate™, to provide a full-service experiential marketing group designed to handle the unique communications needs of the automotive industry. Leveraging both companies’ joint expertise, Accelerate develops and implements 360-degree communications programs that create value-driven connections between consumers and automotive brands.

Accelerate develops, integrates and executes all elements of consumer engagement through traditional media relations, interactive social media, experiential marketing, events and content creation. Offering clients more than four decades of combined experience implementing integrated communications and government affairs strategies for luxury, consumer, lifestyle, industrial and automotive brands – including campaigns executed for Chrysler, Daimler, General Motors and Subaru, among others – Accelerate provides strategic counsel and insight into key issues facing the industry, forge strategic partnerships, creates high-impact events and marketing platforms, and implements traditional and digital communications programs designed to build brand awareness and drive sales.

The group also engages policy makers who are shaping the transportation industry and driving the future of automotive technology on the federal, state and local levels.