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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technolog reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnet tCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operationn in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the sourcd said. Georgia Gov. Sonnh Perdue is expected to make the officiaklannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklande spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Stricklande the company has been looking at Georgia for some time, an officiakl in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Business Chroniclr sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chronicle , Stricklands to convince Nuti to keep the companyh in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsf reported . NCR NCR), which makes automated teller machinesa (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortun 500 company and the secondin Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarterzs to Duluth fromNew York.
NCR, whicbh employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunre500 list. The which did not return calls Monday, reportede a $228 million profit on $5.3 billionh in revenue last year. Last fall, NCR said it woulcd move its Worldwide Customer Services headquartersa tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creatingf more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and Duluth. In NCR said it would co-locatd an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materialw operation in Peachtree City.
NCR, which occupies about 150,00o0 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationin Duluth, will leaswe an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporat e jobs will pay on averageabout $70,000 annually. The manufacturingg distribution operation will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facility will make on averagweabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivedd tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbus governments, the sourcwe said, declining to disclose details abou t the state’s incentive package.
While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’s officialk headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’z influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chiegf financial officer and othefsenior executives, maintain offices on an entirse floor of 7 World Trade Centet in Manhattan. In March, NCR removec the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonm campus. Nuti will not be moving to Atlanta. Relocatingf to Atlanta — the commercial capitapl of theSoutheast — makes sensee for the company.
Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyingf citiesin America, according to an Augusg 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’rt recruit talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the source (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also basex in metro Atlanta. NCR suppliesa Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 to install self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,4887 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expanx the project into Home Depot stores in Canada.
In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woul upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrustt branches.