Clotaire Rapaille – a place branding ‘guru’ sacked

This is not exactly a specific nation-branding issue, but still a pretty relevant story for anyone in the nation branding field. The thing is that Clotaire Rapaille, the French-born American marketing whiz, has been sacked after his enrollment with Québec’s re-branding program was considered ‘a failure’, in the words of Québec’s mayor. Régis Labeaume, the mayor,…