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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetrCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launchj a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operatioh in Columbus, Ga., where it will emplogy nearly 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectecd to make the officiakannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklanc spoke by phone Monday and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookiny at Georgia forsome time, an officiakl in the Ohio governor’s officee told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chronicle , Stricklanc to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firstg reported . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated teller machines andretail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’ 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutnh fromNew York.
NCR, whicj employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunre500 list. The company, whicj did not return calls Monday, reported a $228 millionb profit on $5.3 billiobn in revenue last year. Last fall, NCR said it woulcd move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarter s tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrer City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulsd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customet Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City.
NCR, whicjh occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellitde Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on averagw about $70,000 annually. The manufacturingv distribution operation will be in two buildings and willmake ATMs, accordingg to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averagseabout $43,000 annually, the source NCR received tax incentivex from both Gwinnett and Columbus governments, the source said, declining to disclose details about the state’s incentive package.
While Dayton -- wherre NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’sx official headquarters, the city is not the centetr ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chief financial officer and otherseniort executives, maintain offices on an entire flood of 7 World Trade Center in In March, NCR removed the language “world from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be movin to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercialo capital of theSoutheast — makes senses for the company.
Four of the cities in Ohio — Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dying cities in according to an August 2008 reportin “They [NCR] can’t recruit talengt to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also basedf in metro Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announcec a deal in 2002 toinstalpl self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,48 stores. In 2007, the two companies announcefd a deal to expand the projectt into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and providd new ATMs for all new SunTrust branches.
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