1986: Jean-Louis Bouchard sells his stake in ECS France to Société Générale but buys back all the foreign subsidiaries and merges them with Econocom, an American SMB he had recently taken over.

The group doubles its sales force in Italy by acquiring Tecnolease,[15] an Italian IT leasing company.

October 2010: Société Générale sells ECS:[17] Jean-Louis Bouchard buys back the company he set up over thirty-five years before and merges it with Econocom.

2010: Launches "7 Remote Services[18]", an enterprise solution[buzzword] designed to assist companies in migrating their IT estate to Microsoft’s latest operating system.

[buzzword] 2012: Acquires France Systèmes,[25] France's leading Apple reseller in the education and research sector, and enhances its IT security offering by buying Cap Synergy,[26] a French systems integrator specialising in network and IT system security.

2013: Econocom buys out French systems integrator Exaprobe, thus expanding its security, network and communications division, now worth €30 million in revenue.

This transaction has resulted in the creation of a major new digital service company, with over 8,000 employees in 20 countries and total revenue of around €2 billion.

At the end of 2012, the group established itself in the smart solutions[40] market by setting up a research and development programme with Istituto Superiore Mario Boella in Turin, Italy.