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adding clout to metrko Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,25p0 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCountu operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-footr manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will emploh nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expecter to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklansd spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compangy has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chronicle , Stricklaned to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsft reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automatec teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortunew 500 company and the secondxin Duluth.
Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunee 500 list. The company, which did not return calls reporteda $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year. Last fall, NCR said it wouldx move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creatingy more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and Duluth. In NCR said it woulxd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Custometr Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’z existing Global Service Materials operationh in Peachtree City.
NCR, which occupiesx about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevarxd operationin Duluth, will lease an additionak 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abouf $70,000 annually. The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildinges and willmake ATMs, according to the Employees at that facility will make on averager about $43,000 annually, the source said.
NCR receivee tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbus governments, the sourcee said, declining to disclose details about the state’s incentive While Dayton -- where NCR was foundef in 1884 -- is the company’s official the city is not the centert of the company’s Nuti, along with the company’sa chief financial officer and other seniore executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worled Trade Center in Manhattan. In March, NCR removeds the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytom campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeast makes sense for the company.
Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are amonh the top 10 dying cities in according to an August 2008 reportin “They [NCR] can’t recruit talenf to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metro Atlanta. NCR suppliew Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkoutg lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 stores. In the two companies announcedd a deal to expand the project into Home Depoft storesin Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woulde upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrustf branches.