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 June 2024.

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.

Before we start,a reminder that the final entry deadline for the Creative Moment Awards is coming up on Friday, June 28th. So you need to get a wriggle on if you’ve got good creative work that you want to enter this year.

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

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

“It feels like confidence is building and returning, especially in the consumer sector.”

5 mins Andrew updates us on Jumnes biggest PR pitch wins: 

 The Academy wins Fullers London Pride 

Alfred wins Perfect Draft

Here Be Dragons wins Koppaberg 

Premier win Wireless Festival - (Live Nation)

Tin Man win Blue Light Card

Stakked and Munch win Netflix Buying London Cast and separarelty Kabuto

W win Extreme E

Hatch win British Cycling

Tin Man/Lucky Generals win EDF

“This was an integrated pitch where the client wanted the PR agency and the ad agency to come together at the outset to create a campaign that had earned at its heart.”

The Earnies win The Royal Academy of Engineering 

Brand Nation win reebok 

Wild Card win Ask Italian - 

TrunkBBI win Moonpig

Unlimited Group win National Highways 

Coolr win Britvic

Pitch win global brief for les Mills

Mischief MHP win Pringles

Shook win Soare

The Heard - Monster Energy

Golin win Unilever 

36 mins This month’s M&A run down:

Pagefield sells to PPHC 

Candid (a Netherlands-based marketing and comms group) acquires Houston PR

Lewis acquires Tayburn