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Andrew Bloch was named one of the most influential People in P.R. He was co-founder and managing director of Frank PR, one of the UK’s leading consumer PR agencies. Founded in 2000, the then 60 strong agency had a reputation for providing creative solutions for some of the nation’s best-known brands. These included the likes of Budweiser, BlackBerry, Persil, Pizza Express, Alton Towers, Kit Kat and Puma. The agency also represented a number of high profile personalities including Lord Alan Sugar and Ronnie O’ Sullivan.
NEWS: The Great British Entrepreneur Awards have shortlisted Andrew as Creative Entrepreneur of the Year 2025.
Andrew Block and Frank PR’s high profile work has been recognised by Marketing Magazine, which named it PR Agency of the Year for two consecutive years. They are the first ever agency to win the Award three times in total. This led to Frank being named in the Holmes Report as European PR Consultancy of the Year.
Frank PR have also won or been highly commended at The PR Week Awards for Best Consumer PR Campaign for five out of the last six years a record unsurpassed by any other PR agency.
Frank PR, NS&I & Great Ormond Street Hospital:
In 2005 SpeakOut arranged with Andrew Block and Frank PR for Sir Alan Sugar (as he was titled then) to appear on National Television promoting National Savings and Investments (NS&I). This was the first time Sir Alan had advertised a product on television, other than his own products. The campaign was so successful it was repeated for almost 5 years. This was until Sir Alan took on an advisory role with the government as their new Enterprise Tsar. During the campaign, Sir Alan appeared alongside Bob Geldof, Stephen Hawking and Germaine Greer. SpeakOut donated a cheque on Sir Alan’s behalf to Great Ormond Street Hospital for a six figure sum.
In October 2007, Andrew Bloch helped facilitate the sale of Frank PR to Australian media conglomerate, The Photon Group, in a deal worth an estimated minimum of 17 million pounds.
Andrew Bloch started his PR career at Lynne Franks PR in 1995. He stayed with the agency when it was acquired by Ketchum in 1998. Bloch left the agency as associate director heading up Ketchum’s sport and entertainment divisions. Key clients Andrew Bloch has worked on in his career include Coca Cola, Motorola and London Fashion Week. Also The BAFTA’s and The Spice Girls.
in 2019 Andrew was named, one of Britain’s most influential entrepreneurs. This was alongside Richard Branson, JK Rowling and his client, Lord Sugar. He stepped down from Frank PR in 2020 to become a non-executive director and now runs his own company.
If you want to hear one man’s opinion on PR and Marketing, it has to be Andrew Block. It’s a truly motivational story. You can book Andrew Block to speak at you conference by clicking on the Enquire Now button below. Alternatively, call Speak Out on 020 8914 8966.
