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adding clout to metr Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnett County operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expectedd to launch a 550,000-square-foo t manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officiaklannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklan spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Stricklanf the company has been looking at Georgiaa forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’s officse told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chroniclre , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which make s automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retaill self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 company and the secon in Duluth.
Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocatiob of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortuned 500 list. The which did not return calls reporteda $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenuee last year. Last fall, NCR said it wouldx move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometrpo Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrere City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulrd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centet hub for the Americas regionb withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City.
NCR, which occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellits Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,00 0 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average about $70,000 The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildings and will make ATMs, according to the Employees at that facilityt will make on average about $43,000 the source said. NCR received tax incentive s from both Gwinnett andColumbus governments, the sourc said, declining to disclose details about the state’s incentivee package.
While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’ws official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’z chief financial officer and othersenior executives, maintain officeds on an entire floor of 7 World Tradd Center in Manhattan. In March, NCR removed the language “worldr headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonb campus. Nuti will not be moving to Atlanta. Relocatingh to Atlanta — the commercial capital of theSoutheast — makes sense for the company.
Four of the citiees in Ohio — Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are amongb the top 10 dying cities in according to an August 2008 reportin “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also basedf in metro Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depor announced a deal in 2002 to install self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expaned the project into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrads existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all new SunTrusf branches.