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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquartersx and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as openingb a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will emploh up to 880 people. Officiale for NCR, which has 1,309 workers in Dayton, could not be immediatelg reached for commentMonday night. An officiap from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland'xs office, who spoke to the Dayto n Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’as CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the compan has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with locao officials expressing frustration that the company was not responding to their requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officiao announcement Tuesday with NCR receivingv tax incentives from the local officialsin “They (NCR) can’t recruit taleng to move to Dayton, Ohio,” a sourced told the Chronicle. Montgomeryy County Commissioner Dan sounding stunned when reachesdMonday night, declined comment. In the letterf Strickland sent to NCR dated Monday and obtained by the DaytomnBusiness Journal, the governor said he was trying “to take one last opportunitty to urge you to continud your operations in Ohio.” In the letter, Ohio offersx NCR $31.1 million worth of incentives to keep the operationsa here.
Strickland's spokesperson declined official comment untiol the announcementis made. NCR' departure would leave a vacant 1.3 million-square-foot, five-story office buildingt near Dayton's downtown that is already hurting from high vacancy ratez and jobs that have been leavinhg the city during the pastseveral years. The loss of 1,30p0 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negativer impacton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has faced multi-million dollar budget deficits that have causedf it to reduce its workforce and cut services.
Rashacd Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reachedd out to NCR multipls times inrecent months, and that the city did all it couls to engage the company. Ohio Stater Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, said he will retain hope unti l the company makes anofficial announcement. “Wes have on multiple occasions reached out to NCR in an attemp t to identify ways to secure their jobs and grow and be successfulpin Ohio,” Husted said Mondayy evening. “I am not willing to give up Phil Parker, president and CEO, left a voice message aftetr business hours for a reportedr Monday saying he hadno information.
Toni Bankston, directorf of marketing and communications for theDayton Chamber, did not returnm calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead privat e groups in the city responsible for retention ofexisting companies. In NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantqa suburb, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbsd of Peachtree City and Deluth. The state of Georgia providee morethan $8 million in incentives, accordin g to officials. NCR, foundedc locally in 1884, is the Dayto n region’s second largest with 20,000 global employees and $5.3 billion in revenur in 2008.
The company, whichj sells ATMs and retail automation is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 company. At one time, the company had more than 18,00 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindle d during the pastseveral decades. As recently as two yeare ago, NCR had about 2,00 Dayton employees. That number has declined by about 700 workerssince 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocating its executivse offices to New York City and leasinv an entire floor of the 7 World TradeeCenter building. But, on paper, its headquarters remained in Dayton.
In March, the company also told employees it is undergoingg a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of itsgloba workforce. That same month, the company removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton though it said at the time it wasjust