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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,25p0 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCounty operation, a sourcer familiar with the plan said. The company is also expected to launca 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., wherre it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncemenft Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklandx spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the companyu has been looking at Georgia for some time, an officiapl in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Business Chronicles sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtainexd by theChronicle , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chroniclee , and the DBJ , firstt reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makew automated teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’xs 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Duluthn from New York. NCR, which employzs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 list. The which did not return calls Monday, reported a $228 milliob profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last NCR said it would move its Worldwidr Customer Services headquarters to metro investing $15 million and creatinh more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learning Centerd and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americasx region with the company’s existing Globa l Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupiew about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevarfd operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average about $70,00 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operationn will be in two buildings and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivedf tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbuss governments, the source said, declining to disclose detailsw about the state’s incentive package. While Dayton -- wher NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’ds official headquarters, the city is not the centef ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’a chief financial officer and othersenior executives, maintain offices on an entirwe floor of 7 World Trade Centee in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytobn campus. Nuti will not be movingy to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlant a — the commercial capital of theSoutheastg — makes sense for the company. Four of the cities in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are amonb the top 10 dying citiesxin America, according to an August 2008 report in Forbes. “Theuy [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said. DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also basede in metro Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servicew kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announcecd a deal in 2002 toinstallo self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,48 7 stores. In 2007, the two companies announce d a deal to expand the projecgt into Home Depot storesin Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woulxd upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrustt branches.