The Review of Biggest PR Pitches and Mergers & Acquisitions in UK PR in May 2025 with Andrew Bloch

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. Don’t miss PR Masterclass: AI in PR on July 2ndHow to Integrate AI into your PR WorkflowHow will AI impact the agency business model?The impact of AI on journalismIs LLM optimisation PR"s biggest opportunity of our lifetimes? Check out the microsite PRMasterclasses.com for all the details including the speaker line-up. The other vital bit of information is that The Creative Moment Awards final entry deadline is Friday 20th June, You can see all the categories for 2025 at the microsite creativemomentawards.co. Thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors the PRCA. 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