6. SCC

Key points

Revenue: £591.4m (+3%)

Net profit: 3%

Staff: 1,622

The Birmingham-based channel bellwether halted a run of three straight years of UK sales declines in its fiscal year ending 31 March 2018 on the back of an "excellent" second half. UK revenues rose three per cent to £591.4m, with product supply revenues growing three per cent to £417m, core managed services and datacentre services rising one per cent £138m, and integration activities pogoing eight per cent to £36m. UK operating profits have risen for five straight years. Part of The Rigby Group, whose interests span technology, aviation, real estate, hotels, airports and finance, SCC also operates in France and Spain, with offshore centres in Romania and Vietnam. It boasts group revenues of £1.8bn, and vendor alliances with the likes of Cisco, IBM, VMware, Microsoft, NetApp, Lenovo and Oracle.