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Jun 6
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The Review of Biggest PR Pitches and Mer...

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About this episode

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

Andrew 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.

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Here is this month’s run down of the biggest PR pitch wins in May 2025:

International Wine & Spirits Competition appoints Clarion

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) appoints Kindred

LastMinute.com appoints Sunny Side Up

Peoples Postcode Lottery appoints Smarts

Truffle Burger appoints Chomp

Gousto appoints The Romans

BAM UK appoints Four Agency Worldwide

Samsung appoints Mischief

Western Digital appoints Harvard

Burson appoints Cellnex

IP Office appoints Lansons Team Farner

Waitrose appoints The Heard

Wenzels appoints W

Sky TV appoints Blurred 

Contura Orthopedics appoints Match Fit

And this month’s run down of M&A activity in the PR sector:

Stakked acquires Radioactive

Mission Group merges Mongoose PR with Populate Social and Alive Experiential to form Mongoose Sport& Entertainment

Intinctif sells MENA operations to Excella Advisory

Publicis acquires Capitv8

M+C Saatchi  acquires Dune 23

Together Group acquires OBO

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