Today's anti-brand activists, however, overplay their hand when they argue that today's cluttered "brandscape" colonises our minds.
One of them was from Mr. Icahn, who has been bringing his brand of activist investing to the biotechnology arena.
The president's 45-minute talk also served as a vehicle to pitch his own brand of activist government to historians.
He outlined why the company needed some shaking up The approach is the latest effort by Mr. Glass to practice his own brand of activist investment, one punctuated not by bluster but by a quiet insistence that companies should consider selling themselves or breaking their holdings apart.
Carl Icahn keeps shaking up companies through his brand of activist investing.
He did, however, forget to mention that the Troupe is 56 years old, has a Tony, several OBIEs, and multiple other awards, and that the Troupe tours across the country and around the world with its particular brand of activist theater.
Donald Trump branded the activist "disgusting" when he appeared on Fox & Friends earlier this week.
And the high court, despite the law at its disposal, has let them get away with it, spooked no doubt by being branded as "activist".
Dove, another brand that activists cited for having ads on Facebook pages denigrating women, said in a statement that it was working with Facebook to have such pages removed.
A new brand of activists want to incorporate fruit trees into the fabric of city life by turning our limited green space into woody groves filled with apples, cherries and plums.
