IT company SCC France have signed up as a Paris 2024 official supporter ©SCC France

Information technology company SCC France has become the latest company to sign as an official supporter of next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, it has been announced.

It takes to 11 the number of official supporters in the lowest level of the Paris 2024 domestic sponsorship programme.

Along with the five premium partners and seven official partners, that Paris 2024 has also agreed deals with, it is estimated that it has already raised €1.022 billion (£903 million/$1.097 billion) in sponsorship revenue.

Paris 2024 is now projected to make €1.226 billion (£1.088 billion/$1.323 billion) in sponsorship, surpassing its target of €1.1 billion (£974 million/$1.2 billion).

SCC France is the subsidiary of Europe’s first independent IT group founded by Sir Peter Rigby in 1975 in the United Kingdom and claims to be an industry leader in France, UK and Spain.

SCC, which stands for Specialist Computer Company, will provide Paris 2024 with computer equipment and audio-visual, reprographic and mobile products, including some from TOP partners of the International Olympic Committee.

The Nanterre-based SCC France have proposed the recovery of all equipment at the end of the Games, in order to treat and recondition the equipment. via a subsidiary employing more than 65 per cent of people with disabilities.

SCC France chief executive Didier Lejeune, right, embraces Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet, left, as they agree a sponsorship deal for the Olympic and Paralympic Games ©SCC France
SCC France chief executive Didier Lejeune, right, embraces Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet, left, as they agree a sponsorship deal for the Olympic and Paralympic Games ©SCC France

"Positioning ourselves among the partners of the Organising Committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a source of pride for all of our teams," said Didier Lejeune, chief executive of SCC France.

"We are going to set up an industrial system to allow organisers to create a unique experience.

"It is also a great opportunity for our group to display its values, to federate its teams and its ecosystem, and to highlight its know-how.

"SCC France thus pragmatically demonstrates its desire to participate in universal projects driven by human, sporting and commitment values."

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet claimed that the deal demonstrated that they were taking sustainability seriously.

"The complete management of the life cycle of SCC France's IT equipment and its reuse to limit digital waste are concrete examples and in perfect harmony with our ambition to organise Games with a reduced impact on the environment and to contribute to a new, more responsible event model," he said.