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adding clout to metro Atlanta’ s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250o corporate jobs to its GwinnettCounty operation, a source familiat with the plan said. The company is also expecteds to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officiaplannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklanf spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookingt at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’sw office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publicatiom Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicled , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chroniclew , and the DBJ , firstt reported . NCR NCR), which makes automated teller machineas (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’ s 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocatiom of its headquarters to Duluth from New NCR, which employs 20,000 employees ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calls Monday, reportes a $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidde Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investinf $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtred City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-located an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’ws existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree NCR, which occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellitwe Boulevard operation in Duluth, will leases an additional 100,000 to 200,000 squar feet at that facility. The corporates jobs will pay on averageabout $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingzs and willmake ATMs, according to the Employees at that facility will make on averagde about $43,000 annually, the source NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnetf and Columbus governments, the source said, declining to disclose detailsa about the state’s incentive package. While Dayton -- whered NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’s officia l headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’ss influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chief financial officer and othersenior executives, maintain officexs on an entire floor of 7 World Tradde Center in Manhattan.
In NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonn campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeas t — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are amont the top 10 dying cities in America, according to an Augustr 2008 report in Forbes. “Thet [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also base d in metro Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servicse kiosks, and NCR and Home Depoyt announced a deal in 2002 toinstalo self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expan d the project into Home Depot storeds in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woulr upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrus branches.
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