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Sir Peter Rigby, Founder of SCC and Rigby Group, has become the first British born businessman to receive France’s highest honour - the Legion d'honneur - in recognition of his services to the French economy and promoting strong business relations between the UK and its nearest continental neighbour. Sir Peter, who was knighted by the Queen in 2002 for his services to technology and business, has overseen 23 years of steady growth in the group’s French businesses, building through a blend of organic growth and acquisition to create an operation that recorded revenues of €2billion Euros in the fiscal year ended 31 March 2021. Accepting the honour at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, Sir Peter said: “I have always passionately believed in the importance of building positive relationships with neighbours and colleagues beyond the UK’s borders and am both grateful and deeply honoured by my appointment to the Legion d'honneur."
SCC wins Corporate VAR of the Year and MSP Specialist of the Year at 2021 PCR Awards! SCC won Corporate VAR of the Year for demonstrating strong values and continued excellence throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, including investment in people and technology, and scaled service delivery to critical service providers during the global crisis. SCC was also named MSP Specialist of the Year for our commitment to continuous improvement of and investment in our managed services, which in the past 18 months has included double digit growth across EMEA, expansion of SCC's Global Delivery Centres in Romania and Vietnam, investment in internal systems, and the launch of Oworx, SCC’s specialist public cloud company. Mike Swain, SCC UK CEO, said: “I’m delighted with more industry recognition for SCC. Both award wins are testament to our people and the outstanding commitment they have shown in the past year as we’ve all faced the most challenging period of our lives, personally and professionally."
SCC is a finalist for Most Innovative Campaign at the Unily Unite 21 awards. With lockdown lifting and as employees who’ve been working remotely began their transition back into the office SCC wanted to support them through the process. SCC teamed up with a personal training company, Podium Fitness 23, to introduce a range of activities for employees. Over the past 9 weeks, personal trainers have held over 50 free sessions ranging from Running Clubs to HIIT and Zumba classes both in-person and streamed virtually for all employees to join. Additionally, 45 employees have received free health screenings alongside a written feedback report and a live health, fitness and well-being event with a Q&A was streamed for all employees. Good luck to all the finalists!
SCC is delighted to be announced as a finalist for “Managed Services Provider (MSP) of the Year” and “Reseller of the Year - £101m+ turnover” in the 2021 CRN Channel Awards. The CRN Channel Awards are the biggest and most prestigious awards in UK Channel and the winners of each category will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 11th November 2021. We're delighted to have been chosen as finalists and can't wait to see everyone together at the awards. We wish everyone the best of luck 😊
Our staff are enjoying the wellbeing programmes in action with personal training company, Podium Fitness 23, providing our employees with access to fitness classes, nutrition advice and healthy tips. Sally Walton OLY and her team are hosting running and walking clubs, fitness sessions at our Birmingham offices including Zumba, HIIT and Yoga, which are streamed live for employees to join virtually, and are sharing their top fitness and nutrition tips. Thank you to everyone who has gotten involved so far – we hope you’re loving the classes!
Four women from SCC have been named as finalists at this year’s prestigious CRN Women in Channel Awards 2021. Patricia McIntosh, Head of National Internal Account Management and Inside Sales, and Sara Wilkes, Head of Customer Service Management, are finalists in the Manager of the Year (Reseller/Solution Provider) category. Gabrielle Barthelemy, International Marketing Manager, and Rohima Begum, Vendor Marketing Manager, are finalists in the Marketing Employee of the Year (Reseller/Solution Provider) category. Mike Swain, SCC UK CEO, said: “SCC has always worked hard to increase diversity and ensure opportunities exist for all – particularly in recent years. Women remain under-represented in our industry, but we and others are doing all we can to address this, and we are proud to have four women representing SCC as finalists. This is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in the IT channel and highlight female role models who are inspiring the next generation and pushing diversity forward. To Pat, Sara, Gabby, and Rohima: thank you, congratulations, and good luck!"
James Rigby, CEO of SCC EMEA supports our charity partner The Prince's Trust by taking part in their Million Makers initiative. The Million Makers initiative sees teams of employees, from organisations across the UK, developing their business skills by turning an initial seed funding investment into as much money as possible for The Prince’s Trust. The challenge collectively raises over £1million every year to change the lives of unemployed young people across the UK. James joined a panel of ‘Dragons’ judging two entrepreneur groups made up of employees from New Look and Babcock in Dragons' Den style pitches of their fundraising plans. Both teams successfully secured their seed funding and will go on to execute their plans to raise money for The Prince's Trust. He said: "It was great to see collaboration and development within the teams and strong business plans all motivated to work towards the same goal of supporting The Princes Trust. I was more than happy to support this initiative along with my fellow Dragons and look forward to seeing the execution of the teams’ proposals."
What a fantastic achievement for SCC, to win two extremely competitive awards at the CRN Sales and Marketing Event,” said SCC CEO James Rigby, “It has been a difficult few months for everybody around the globe and although the IT Channel is strong, it certainly hasn’t been immune to these recent challenges. So now, more than ever, I am extremely proud of our people who continue to work together and achieve recognisable and impressive results.” James added, “Thank you for everyone’s continued efforts in doing the best at what you do, and making this company a great place to work.
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