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 Jan 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.

Andrew launched Andrew Bloch & Associates in 2020.

There’s a couple of new webinars that have gone live including The Worlds 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, thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors the PRCA.

1 mins Why Andrew is feeling optimistic about 2025.

2 mins This month's round up of PR’s biggest pitch wins:

The Children’s Society appoint Smarts 

Oxfam appoint  Hope & Glory

Adidas Manchester Marathon appoint  PHA

Sport in Mind mental health charity appoint  Work in Class

Remy Cointreau appoint LX

Bella + Duke (pet wellbeing) appoint Aisle 8

Napo Pet Insurance appoint  Munch for PR – Flabbergast for Social media

Generator (global hospitality brand) appoint  Munch and Flabbergast

Grenade appoint Tin Man

For Goodness Shakes appoint  Rooster 

National Lottery Operator (Allwyn Group) appoint M&C Saatchi

Alton Towers appoint  Smoking Gun

Holocaust Memorial Day appoint Atalanta

Hublot (LVMH) appoint W

Yo Sushi appoint Earnies

Budweiser brewing Group appoint Hanover.

Air Canada appoint PC Agency

Government Digital Service appoint Four

24 mins This month’s run down of M&A in public relations:

Stagwell set to acquire Unicepta

Stagwell acquire Create Group

Marketbridge (US marketing firm) acquire April Six – Part of Mission Group (listed holding company)

Cavendish acquire Deryn