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adding clout to metrio Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250p corporate jobs to its GwinnettCountyy operation, a source familiar with the plan said. The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employy nearly 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncemeng Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklansd spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compan has been looking at Georgiaq for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’s officr told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chroniclee , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the companhy in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsgt reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automated telled machines (ATMs) and retail will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 company and the secondfin Duluth.
Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcef the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employeees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortuner 500 list. The company, which did not returj calls Monday, reported a $228 million profiy on $5.3 billion in revenue last year. Last NCR said it would move its Worldwide Custome r Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millionh and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americaas region with the company’s existinv Global Service Materials operatiojn in Peachtree City.
NCR, which occupiex about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevards operationin Duluth, will lease an additiona l 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporate jobs will pay on averagseabout $70,000 annually. The manufacturing distribution operationh will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facilityu will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the sourced said. NCR received tax incentivesa from both Gwinnett andColumbuas governments, the source said, declining to disclose details about the state’as incentive package.
While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’sz official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’ws influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chiegf financial officer and othedsenior executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worlde Trade Center in Manhattan. In March, NCR removerd the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton Nuti will not be movingvto Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of theSoutheast — makess sense for the company.
Four of the citied in Ohio — Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyintg citiesin America, according to an August 2008 reporft in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’tf recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said. (NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customersx -- are also based in metrko Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-servicwe kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announcee a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,486 stores. In 2007, the two companie s announced a deal to expand the projecf into Home Depot storesin Canada.
In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust