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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatde 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetrtCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturinhg operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialpannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Stricklans the company has been looking at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Businesds Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklandx to convince Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicles , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated teller machines andretail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’sd 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcer the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, rankedx 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calls reported a $228 million profit on $5.
3 billion in revenue last Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidd Customer Services headquarters to metri Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrer City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-locat e an NCR Learning Center and its Customeer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtrees City. NCR, which occupies about 150,00 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additionaol 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average aboug $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingas and willmake ATMs, accordingb to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averageabouf $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivese from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclosr details about the state’s incentive package. Whil Dayton -- where NCR was foundec in 1884 -- is the company’s official headquarters, the city is not the centert ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’ws chief financial officer and other senior maintain offices on an entire flooe of 7 World Trade Centerin Manhattan.
In March, NCR removeed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytoh campus. Nuti will not be movint to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of the Southeast — makes sense for the company. Four of the citiess in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinf citiesin America, accordingv to an August 2008 report in Forbes. “They can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the sourc said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metrok Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servic kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstallp self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announces a deal to expand the project into Home Depof stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgradd existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrustr branches.