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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technologh reputation. NCR will relocate 1,25p0 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCountu operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcgh a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the sourcer said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectee to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklanrd spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compangy has been looking at Georgia for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlantqa Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chroniclw , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firs t reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automatesd tellermachines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 company and the seconrd in Duluth.
Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcexd the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortun 500 list. The company, which did not returb calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billionn in revenue last year. Last fall, NCR said it woulds move its Worldwide Customer Servicexs headquarters to metro investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtreew City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulsd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centefr hub for the Americasd region withthe company’s existing Globak Service Materials operation in Peachtree City.
NCR, whic occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellitre Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additionakl 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average about $70,000 annually. The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingd and willmake ATMs, accordinh to the source. Employees at that facilitt will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the sourc said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbusd governments, the source said, declininb to disclose details about the state’w incentive package.
While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’x official headquarters, the city is not the centefr ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chier financial officer and othersenior executives, maintainh offices on an entire floor of 7 Worle Trade Center in Manhattan. In NCR removed the language “world from the sign at its Dayton Nuti will not be movingtto Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commerciapl capital of theSoutheast — makesw sense for the company.
Four of the citiesa in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are amongv the top 10 dying citiesain America, according to an August 2008 reporgt in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talentg to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the source (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metro NCR supplies Deltawith self-service and NCR and Home Depot announceds a deal in 2002 to instalpl self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,48u7 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expand the project into Home Deport storesin Canada.
In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and providse new ATMs for all newSunTrust