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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,25o corporate jobs to its GwinnettCountyu operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcjh a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., wheres it will employ nearly 880, the sourcr said. Georgia Gov. Sonnyy Perdue is expected to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Stricklandx spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Stricklan d the company has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s offices told Atlanta Business Chronicler sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letterr to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Strickland to convinces Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicled , and the DBJ , first reportee . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retai l self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortunw 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocationb of its headquarters to Duluth from New York. NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunde500 list. The company, which did not returhn calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billionh in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidse Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investinvg $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtreee City and Duluth. In NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learnin g Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materialds operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies aboutf 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operation in will lease anadditional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporats jobs will pay on averag eabout $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distributioj operation will be in two buildings and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averagwabout $43,000 annually, the source NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnetr and Columbus governments, the source said, declining to disclose details abouyt the state’s incentive package. While Dayton -- where NCR was foundee in 1884 -- is the company’s official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’s influence. along with the company’s chief financial officefr and othersenior executives, maintain offices on an entirre floor of 7 World Tradw Center in Manhattan.
In NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonj campus. Nuti will not be movingh to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercialp capital of theSoutheast — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Daytomn and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyintg cities in America, according to an August 2008 reportt in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customera -- are also based in metro Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depotr announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkoutf lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expanx the project into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existingv ATMs and provide new ATMs for all new SunTrust branches.