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Feb 2025
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The Feb 2025 review of biggest UK PR pit...

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About this episode

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers a d acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in February 2025.

Bloch  is the lead consultant  PR, social, content and influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies.

He launched Andrew Bloch & Associates in 2020 and Big Dog Talent in January 2025

There’s a couple of new webinars that have gone live including The World's Greatest PR Research, which is a new topic, where we highlight the insight of some of the best PR related insight we’ve seen recently. 

Also now live is our free to attend Why PR has an attention advantage on social with the folks from Tangerine. 

Tickets are now available for both The PRmoment Awards shows, including the London Ceremony at Park Plaza Westminster on Thursday 27 March 2025 and the Manchester Ceremony at Manchester Hall on Thursday 3 April 2025.

Also, thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors the PRCA.

Here’s a summary of what Bloch and PRmoment founder Ben Smith discussed:

This month's run down of the biggest PR pitches:

Linkedin appoint Ketchum

Nomad Foods appoint Burson

Husqvarna appoint Burson

Hello Fresh/Green Chef appoint John Doe

Field Doctor appoint Shook 

IFIT+ Nordic Track appoint Shook

Ordnance Survey re appoint Markettiers

Autotrader appoint Hope & Glory

The Growth Foundation appoint Words+Pixels 

Disaronno appoint Mercieca 

Oxford Landing Wines appoint Frank

Gu appoint Tin Man

Radisson appoint W

Utility Warehouse appoint Here Be Dragons

Travel Supermarket appoint JBH

This month's biggest M&A activity in public relations

Stagwell merged Hunter and KWT Global

Connect Group (Strategic Comms) acquire majority stake in Linco, an Edinburgh based Public Affairs 

Publicis acquire BR Media Group

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