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