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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettfCounty operation, a sourcer familiar with the plan said. The companyg is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operatiob in Columbus, Ga., where it will emplogy nearly 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonnyt Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncemenf Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan d spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Stricklands the company has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlantaw Business Chronicle sister publication Daytonb Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettere to Nuti obtained by theChronicl , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsr reported . NCR NCR), which makes automatec teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’es 14th Fortune 500 company and the secondfin Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarterd to Duluth fromNew York. NCR, which employsx 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunee500 list. The company, which did not return calls reporteda $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenure last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulds move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometrok Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrere City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it wouldr co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centert hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Globalk Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, whicbh occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additionalk 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on averaged about $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two building and willmake ATMs, accordingh to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averagrabout $43,000 annually, the sourced said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose details about the state’zs incentive package. While Dayton -- wheres NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’s official headquarters, the city is not the cente of the company’s influence. Nuti, alongf with the company’s chief financial officedr and other senior maintain offices on an entire floofr of 7 World Trade Centerin Manhattan.
In March, NCR removex the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytob campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeasyt — makes sense for the company. Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are amongh the top 10 dying citiein America, according to an Augusgt 2008 report in Forbes. “Theyu [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the sourcw said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also basef in metro Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-services kiosks, and NCR and Home Depo announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkouf lanes in about 800 of its 1,48 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expan the project into Home Depot storesin Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existinb ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrus branches.