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
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