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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technologyg reputation. NCR will relocatd 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettgCounty operation, a source familiatr with the plan said. The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearlyg 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdu is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan d spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been looking at Georgi for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’sz office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sistert publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicl , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the companyu in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicld , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR NCR), which makes automated teller machinesd (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 compan and the secondin Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutbh fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunse500 list. The company, which did not returnm calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billiojn in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulds move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millio n and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learningy Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas regionj with the company’s existing Global Service Materials operatiobn in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies abou t 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevare operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0009 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abou t $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingsd and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averagedabout $43,000 annually, the source NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus governments, the source declining to disclose details about the state’ s incentive package. While Dayton -- whered NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’z official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’sx influence.
Nuti, along with the company’s chief financial officer and otheersenior executives, maintain offices on an entirre floor of 7 World Trade Center in In March, NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercialp capital of the Southeast — makew sense for the company. Four of the citieas in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dyingh citiesin America, according to an Augusft 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said.
DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metro Atlanta. NCR suppliez Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announcefd a deal to expand the project into Home Depot storesa in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existinvg ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust