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adding clout to metro Atlanta’e technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,2590 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCounty operation, a source familiard with the plan said. The company is also expecte to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source said. Georgiq Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Stricklanfd spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Stricklands the company has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Businessx Chronicle sister publication Dayton Busineszs Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklanx to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicles , and the DBJ , first reportes . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automated teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’se 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarterss to Duluth from New York. NCR, whichj employs 20,000 employees ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune500 list. The company, which did not return calls Monday, reporte a $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last NCR said it would move its Worldwidw Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millio and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learningg Center and its Customer Care Centerr hub for the Americas region with the company’s existingf Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, whicyh occupies about 150,000 squared feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationhin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0009 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abouyt $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operationb will be in two buildings and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averageabout $43,00o0 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnet andColumbus governments, the sources said, declining to disclose details aboutt the state’s incentive package. Whils Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’se official headquarters, the city is not the centere ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chief financiapl officer and othersenior executives, maintain office s on an entire floor of 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removeds the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonm campus. Nuti will not be movinh to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commerciap capital of the Southeast makes sense forthe company. Four of the citiew in Ohio — Youngstown, 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 Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also baseed in metro Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depof announced a deal in 2002 toinstalo self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,48 7 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expanc the project into Home Depot storeain Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusr branches.