Pictured: 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 

The drpgroup have picked up eight prizes at this year's IVCA Livecom awards, celebrating excellence and creativity in live and experiential communications, both in the UK and overseas. The group picked up three outright wins and five highly commended nods at the ceremony held at the Brewery in London on the 26th of January. The awards were won for projects delivered in 2011, including work for clients Sainsbury's, Chiltern Railways, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Thomas Cook and Lloyds Banking group, recognising their impact on the target audience and effectiveness in delivering objectives.

The drpgroup picked up the top prize for the Wolverhampton Wanderers Hall of Fame Event in the Heritage category, the Chiltern Railways Customer Focus Event in the Seminars & Conferences category and Sainsbury's Our Conference in the Internal Experience category. Lloyds Back to School for Retail HR and Communication Colleagues was highly commended in the Learning Experience category, the Thomas Cook 2Gether Conference and Sainsbury's Our Conference both picked up highly commended prizes in the Award for Motivation and Inspiration category. In the international thread of the ceremony, the drpgroup picked up two highly commended awards for the Thomas Cook 2Gether Conference, one for Internal Experience and one for Seminars and Conferences, taking the total number of prizes to eight.

Dale Parmenter, group managing director, commented on the group's success at the awards ceremony, "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."