The drpgroup swept the board at this year’s IVCA Livecom awards, picking up eight prizes.

The group picked up three outright wins and five highly commended nods for events organised in 2011 at the ceremony held at the Brewery in London. Its ‘Chiltern Railways Customer Focus Challenge’ took the top spot in the ‘UK Seminars and Conferences’ category, while its work on the ‘Wolves Hall of Fame 2011’ for Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club championed in the ‘Heritage’ category. The third win was picked up in the ‘Award for Inspiration and Motivation’ category with ‘Our Conference 2011’ for Sainsbury’s, which was a joint win with Brand Fire for its ‘Euro RSCG, One Young World’ event.

‘Back to School for Lloyds Retail HR and Communication Colleagues’, ‘Thomas Cook’s 2Gether Conference 2011’ and ‘Sainsbury’s Our Conference’ received multiple ‘highly commended’ accolades.

Dale Parmenter, group managing director, said: “It’s a great reflection on the whole team’s hard work throughout last year. A huge range of projects picked up prizes and what pleases me the most is, with the emphasis of these awards placed squarely on tangible results delivered, each of our award winning and highly commended entries delivered above and beyond our client’s expectations.”

Other events picking up prizes included Grass Roots’ ‘Big Bang UK Young Scientist and Engineers Fair 2011’ in the ‘Learning Experience’ category and CTN Communications’ ‘Financial Times Global Commercial Conference 2011’ in the ‘International – Internal Experience’ and ‘UK – Internal Experience’ categories. ‘One Young World’ was also named the winner of the ‘International Seminars and Conferences’ category.

Pictured (L-R): Award presented by Rowan Bray, Prime Focus; Jane Jones, project management director of the drpgroup; Simon Robinson, Thomas Cook and Dale Parmenter, managing director of the drpgroup