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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquartersa and 1,250 jobs to Ga., as well as opening a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 Officialsfor NCR, which has 1,300o workers in Dayton, could not be immediately reached for commen t Monday night. An official from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's who spoke to the Dayton Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’ss CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the company has been eyeinhg Georgia for some time now. The , with locakl officials expressing frustration that the companh was not responding totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdude is expected to make the official announcement Tuesdayu with NCR receiving tax incentivesz from the local officialsin Georgia. “They (NCR) can’f recruit talent to move to Ohio,” a source told the Chronicle. Montgomery Count y CommissionerDan Foley, sounding stunnesd when reached Monday night, declined In the letter Strickland sent to NCR date Monday and obtained by the Daytomn Business Journal, the governor said he was tryingh “to take one last opportunitty to urge you to continue your operationw in Ohio.” In the letter, Ohio offers NCR $31. million worth of incentive s to keep theoperation here.
Strickland's spokesperson declined official comment untio the announcementis made. NCR's departur would leave a vacant 1.3 five-story office building near Dayton'd downtown that is already hurting from high vacancy rate and jobs that have been leavingh the city during the past several The lossof 1,300 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negativew impact on Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has facecd multi-million dollar budget deficits that have causesd it to reduce its workforce and cut Rashad Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reachee out to NCR multiple timexs in recent months, and that the city did all it couldc to engage the company.
Ohio State Sen. Jon Husted, said he will retain hope until the company makex anofficial announcement. “We have on multipler occasions reached out to NCR in an attempt to identify ways to securw their jobs and grow and be successful in Husted saidMonday evening. “I am not willing to give up Phil Parker, president and CEO, left a voice messagr after business hours for a reporter Mondauy saying he hadno information. Toni Bankston, directot of marketing and communications for theDayton Chamber, did not returnj calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead privated groups in the city responsible for retention ofexisting companies.
In October, NCR said it wouldx move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarterzs to anAtlanta suburb, investing $15 million and creatint more than 900 jobs in the suburb of Peachtree City and Deluth. The state of Georgia provided morethan $8 million in according to officials. NCR, foundedf locally in 1884, is the Dayton region’zs second largest company, with 20,000 global employees and $5.3 billion in revenue in 2008. The company, which sells ATMs and retail automation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 At one time, the company had more than 18,00p0 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindled during the past severakl decades.
As recently as two years ago, NCR had abou 2,000 Dayton employees. That number has declined by about 700 workers since 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocatin g its executive offices to New York City and leasing an entirs floor of the 7 World TradweCenter building. But, on paper, its headquarters remaine in Dayton. In March, the companh also told employees it is undergoing a structuralp reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of its global Thatsame month, the company removed the language “world from the sign at its Dayton campus, though it said at the time it was just