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SCC’s founder, Sir Peter Rigby, has received the accolade of being the first British-born businessman to receive the Legion d’honneur.

The award, France’s highest honour, is handed out only to a select few, usually celebrities and military leaders. The decision to award it to Rigby is in recognition of his services to the French economy and building strong business relations.

The French like him because he set SCC up on the other side of the Channel [Geddit? Ed.]. Starting with a team of two in 1998, the privately-owned Rigby Group’s French business now runs an operation that employs 3,300 staff across 23 locations. The Rigby Group has expanded over the years beyond just offering technology, and its activities include hotels, aviation and real estate. Read more…

SCC has had good figures this financial year thanks to its investments IT systems and its Global Delivery Centres in the UK, Romania and Vietnam.

For the year ended 31 March, the firm saw turnover increase by 18 percent across EMEA to reach £2.2 billion, and operating profit for the UK operation was up by 16.9 percent to £18.7 million.

The UK leads the way with turnover growth of 23 percent, followed by France with 20 percent. SCC’s business saw a four percent improvement in services revenue over last year. Read more…

SCC is celebrating its fifth consecutive year of “record” earnings.

The Birmingham-based reseller has seen a strong year for services for its UK operations and its EMEA revenues for its financial year ending 31 March 2018 increased by nine per cent to £1.8 billion.

SCC says it enjoyed “strong EBIT growth” in its Spanish and French operations but did not break out specific figures. It claims that UK EBIT was £16 million, compared with £17 million taken from financial statements for the previous year.

Sales drawn from services climbed by four per cent to £325 million or 18 per cent of overall turnover.

SCC said it had carried out “major investment programmes” to its datacentres in Birmingham and Hampshire which positively affected its services business for UK customers.

It claims a healthy 13 percent sales growth for its French business stemmed from thriving long-term relationships in the public and private sectors, while the UK continued to enjoy a “strong performance” in services.

“Performance of the business over the last year has been exceptional with growth and improved profitability in all our key trading operations”, CEO James Rigby said.

“There is now a need for all businesses, whoever they are or whatever they do, to digitise their operations and outsourcing that requirement is an effective way to manage the continual investment needed for growth.

“We have invested over the past few years via our cloud services and datacentres in anticipation of that demand and we expect to continue our current performance levels in the coming years.

“We will continue to invest in our capabilities and that means areas such as artificial intelligence and cognitive computing where we are already well placed to meet customer demand. Our performance is also based on the success of our strategic acquisitions we have made over the past few years. We will continue to look at opportunities which fit our strategic criteria and help further grow our capabilities.”

SCC’s latest annual results follow the completion of a three year plan to grow its services business.

Reseller SCC is doing rather well thanks to its expanding services business,

Posting its 2017 financial year results, SCC had £1.7 billion in turnover, up 8.7 percent across EMEA, while operating profit (EBIT) was up 39 percent to £25 millionin the region.

But the outfit did well in Blighty where it claimed record earnings before interest and tax of £17.2 million. Its UK services business was up 10 percent in turnover to £194 million.

UK datacentre services revenues were also up 29 percent to £56 million, making SCC’s services business represent more than 31 percent of UK revenues.

SCC claimed its three year plan is to grow a services business across cloud, datacentre services, managed services and managed print.

SCC chief executive James Rigby said it was an exceptional year.

“Our future is as an IT services business, delivering solutions around data, cloud and cognitive computing supported by our next-generation global delivery centres across the world. Growth through our services business will continue as this gives us recurring revenues that enable us to invest in the right areas,” he said.