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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology NCR will relocate 1,250 corporatwe jobs to its Gwinnett County a source familiar with theplan said. The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturinfg operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will emploty nearly 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonnyg Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncementr Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklanx spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the companhy has been looking at Georgia forsome time, an officialo in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlantq Business Chronicle sister publication Dayto Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtainedf by theChronicle , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the compant in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicl e , and the DBJ , firstf reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makeas automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’z 14th Fortune 500 compang and the second in Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcesd the relocation of its headquarters to Duluthh fromNew York. NCR, which employsx 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not returh calls Monday, reported a $228 million profitr on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulx move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometrlo Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-locatde an NCR Learning Center and its Customerd Care Center hub for the Americaz region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operatio in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,000 squarse feet at its Satellite Boulevard operatioin Duluth, will lease an additiona 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility.
The corporatee jobs will pay on averageabout $70,000 The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingsx and will make ATMs, according to the Employees at that facility will make on averagwe about $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivee tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose details about the state’z incentive package. While Dayton -- wherde NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’zs official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’ influence.
Nuti, along with the company’x chief financial officer and othersenior executives, maintain offices on an entires floor of 7 World Trade Centedr in Manhattan. In March, NCR removed the language “worlx headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be movingh to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commerciaol capital of theSoutheast — makez sense for the company. Four of the citiezs in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Daytonm and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dying citiessin America, according to an August 2008 report in Forbes.
“They [NCR] can’t recruit talentr to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the source (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metro Atlanta. NCR suppliesz Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depoty announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkouf lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companiew announced a deal to expand the project into Home Depot storesz in Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusr branches.