Sevenhr has achieved the unusual distinction of winning the same two awards two years running.

The Leeds-based agency has again won the best executive search firm and best recruitment marketing campaign.

The company, not yet five years old, specialises in consumer products, retail and leisure.

It still only has 32 employees, but has a London office and also opened in Poland last year.

For its marketing campaign, it used a pop-up e-mailer using its branded colours to highlight its international capabilities. The company then wrote to clients, with profiles of the sorts of candidates they could have access to in international markets.

Rebecca Good, marketing and communications executive, told Recruiter immediately after collecting the best recruitment marketing campaign award: "It really means a lot to win this award, especially as we haven't been active internationally for very long."

But it wasn't long before Good was going back to the stage for a second time. On executive search, the company worked with food giant RHM (formerly Rank Hovis McDougall). For six months, other agencies had failed to find a candidate for a highly technical position. The position had been perceived as 'dry, boring and uninspiring'. Good said: "We were searching for a person to bring a spirit of adventure to the role. We needed to excite and engage people."

As well as using its contacts to attract candidates, sevenhr also searched in businesses where it had no existing contacts. It eventually placed a candidate, and advised the client to increase the salary it had been about to offer.

Discount clothing retailer Primark is among its other clients.

Last year, sevenhr's winning entry in executive search stressed wellbeing in the workplace. Antony Smith, sevenhr's chief executive and also its single biggest shareholder, said: "It was good to win it, but for different things this year."

Horizon and sevenhr have some common ownership. Investors Brian Dolland and Eddie Zywicki each own a share in both businesses.