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Pledges to Rebuild Notre Dame Already Total to Almost $700 Million. Here Are the Brands Chipping In

Just 24 hours after the devastating fire, household names are stepping up

The 850-year-old cathedral caught fire at 6:20 p.m. Central European Summer Time yesterday. Within hours, pledges of help began rolling in.Getty Images
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By Robert Klara

April 16, 2019

Funds pledged to repair Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral following yesterday’s devastating fire have reached €600 million (about $677 million)—a tidy sum, considering that the tragedy is scarcely 24 hours old.

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Robert Klara

Robert Klara is the senior editor of brands at Adweek, specializing in the evolution and impact of brands.

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