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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatee 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCountyu operation, a source familiar with the plan said. The companu is also expected to launchja 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., wherwe it will employ nearly 880, the sourcre said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdued is expected to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Strickland spoke by phonweMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookingt at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlantz Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Businesx Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Strickland to convincse Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firstg reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makesx automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retail will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcexd the relocation of its headquarters to Duluthh from New York. NCR, whic h employs 20,000 employees globally, rankedc 446 on the 2009 Fortune500 list. The which did not return calls reporteda $228 millioh profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last NCR said it woulcd move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarteras tometro Atlanta, investingb $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtre City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-locatee an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Cented hub for the Americas regionh withthe company’s existing Global Servicw Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,0090 square feet at its Satellite Boulevarrd operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,00p0 square feet at that facility. The corporate jobs will pay on average about $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operationh will be in two buildingsa and willmake ATMs, according to the Employees at that facility will make on average abouft $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivedc tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbusd governments, the source said, declining to disclose details about the state’s incentive package. While Daytonj -- where NCR was foundexd in 1884 -- is the company’x official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’x influence.
Nuti, along with the company’xs chief financial officer and otherseniof executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 World Trade Center in In March, NCR removed the languagwe “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be moving to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of theSoutheast — makez sense for the company. Four of the citie s in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dying citiedin America, according to an Augusg 2008 report in Forbes. “Theyt [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said.
(NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customersa -- are also baserd in metro Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-service and NCR and Home Depot announcede a deal in 2002 toinstallk self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,4877 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expandf the project into Home Depot storesin Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and providee new ATMs for all new SunTrust branches.