private limited company industry information technology data centre & cloud services founded 1975 headquarters birmingham uk key people james rigby chief executive john bland md of uk sales mike swain md of services europe tracy westall md of corporate services peter whitfield european finance director paul everatt cio revenue 1.55 billion number of employees 5 000 scc emea 2015 parent rigby group plc subsidiaries m2 fluidata slogan people do business . we make it work . website www.scc.com this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message scc is europe s largest independent information technology services business with over 2 500 customers in more than 50 countries . scc plans supplies integrates and manages it for leading public and private sector businesses across europe . the business operates from 75 locations in the uk france spain and romania citation needed . contents 1 company structure 2 company history 3 acquisitions 4 notes 5 external links company structure edit scc is the technology division of rigby group plc owned by sir peter rigby chairman a 2bn international business with six key divisions technology hotels airports aviation property and financial services . scc is headquartered in birmingham uk . company history edit in 1975 sir peter rigby founded specialist computer recruitment scr . an outsourcing operation specialist computer services scs opened in 1980 followed by the creation of scc in 1982 . throughout the 1980s scc offices were opened in numerous uk cities including london and edinburgh . the 1990s saw the beginning of a new strategy expansion by acquisition not growth . scc has staged regular takeovers since 1995 see below for full list the most recent being the acquisition of citrix reseller iq sys limited . 1 in 2002 peter rigby was knighted for his contribution to it and business in the midlands . scc published figures of 2.041 billion turnover for 2008 making scc the largest privately owned business in the west midlands and 15th largest in the uk overall . 2 further acquisitions saw turnover increase to 2.48 billion in 2011 . 3 formerly registered as a subsidiary of the holding group sch the company previously operated alongside a sister company specialist distribution group sdg which was sold in 2012 to tech data . 4 since the sale all technology operations have been consolidated under the scc brand . acquisitions edit 1986 byte shop group . 1990 asystel . pc and training arm of applied micros acquired . 1995 scotbyte computers and supplies purchased . 1997 maintenance arm of network si acquired . 1998 qudis purchased from hp . 1999 lantec and elcom uk acquired . 2000 info products allium . 2001 compelsource . 2002 ebc informatique . metrologie france . metrologie systems . unix infrastructure wing of acuma purchased . 2003 ge capital it solutions spain . pluz bv the payroll business of hays group uk purchased . 2004 it services arm of atr group acquired . pluz . triaton purchased from hp germany . 2005 tbi proxis . 2006 mvs srl purchased from ibm italia . 2007 it247 2008 interface solutions international limited system loans services limited 2009 scc italia and mvs sold to bartolini s.p.a. iq sys limited 2010 kavanagh ares infrastructures maintenance and hosting division notes edit register article 22 7 09 1 . fast track 2009 top track 100 league table published 28 june 2009 in the sunday times . 2 . 2.48 billion turnover and 7 000 employees in five key european countries . www.scc.com . retrieved 2012 02 14 . tech data completes sdg acquisition . retrieved 27 may 2016 . external links edit scc web site scr web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scc specialist computer centres & oldid 722359494 categories computer companies of 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