The dictionary sill defines a brand as "a mark made by burning with a hot iron to attest manufacture or quality or to designate ownership". John Wayne and John Huston did a lot of this in Hollywood. The communications industry has hi-jacked 'brand' and 'branding'and uses it to describe a wide variety of marketing activity designed to sell an idea rather than a specific product.

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