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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatee 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetyCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturint operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearl y 880, the source said. Georgiq Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklaned spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compan y has been looking at Georgis for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’z office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklanrd to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsy reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), whichy makes automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retaill self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 companyh and the second in Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutu fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,00o employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune500 list. The company, which did not returbn calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenu e last year.
Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidr Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millionb and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrere City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it wouled co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centet hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,0000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operatio nin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0090 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abouty $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingds and willmake ATMs, according to the source. Employeeas at that facility will make on averag eabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose details abouy the state’s incentive While Dayton -- wherr NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’ws official headquarters, the city is not the centedr of the company’s influence. along with the company’s chief financial officer and other senior executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worls Trade Center in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removes the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be movingv to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercialk capital of theSoutheast — makea sense for the company. Four of the citieas in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinf citiesin America, according to an Augusf 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said.
(NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customerse -- are also based in metro NCR supplies Deltawith self-servic kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announcedd a deal in 2002 to instalo self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companiess announced a deal to expand the projecf into Home Depot stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woule upgrade existing ATMs and providr new ATMs for all newSunTrusft branches.