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adding clout to metro Atlanta’sa technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcjh a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employu nearly 880, the sourc e said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdu e is expected to make the officiaolannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklanrd spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookintg at Georgia for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’sx office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sistert publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chronicles , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicl , and the DBJ , first reportedf . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automated teller machinesx (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortunr 500 company and the secondin Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutuh fromNew York.
NCR, which employs 20,000 employees ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calle Monday, reported a $228 million profir on $5.3 billion in revenue last Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to metro investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it wouldr co-locate an NCR Learning Centerf and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas region with the company’s existingf Global Service Materials operation in Peachtre City.
NCR, which occupies abougt 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,00o to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on averagse about $70,000 annually. The manufacturiny distribution operation will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facility will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivede tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbuz governments, the source said, declining to disclose details about the state’sw incentive package.
While Dayton -- where NCR was founderd in 1884 -- is the company’a official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chiefc financial officer and other senior maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 World Tradee Centerin Manhattan. In March, NCR removec the language “world from the sign at its Dayton Nuti will not be movingto Atlanta.
Relocatiny to Atlanta — the commerciao capital of theSoutheast — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dying citiees in America, according to an August 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said. (NYSE: DAL), HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customere -- are also basefd in metro Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-servicde kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstalk self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 stores.
In 2007, the two companiezs announced a deal to expanrd the project into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR wouldx upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all new SunTrus branches.