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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporatw jobs to its Gwinnett County a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foo manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., wherde it will employ nearlyt 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncemeny Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklaned spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compant has been looking at Georgiaz for some time, an officiaol in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Business Chroniclew sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtained by the Chroniclee , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the companyy in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chroniclr , and the DBJ , firs reported .
NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automatee teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’zs 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocatio n of its headquarters to Duluth from New NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunse 500 list. The company, which did not returb calls Monday, reported a $228 milliojn profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year. Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millioj and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrere City and Duluth.
In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customedr Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’ss existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtrere City. NCR, which occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevardc operationin Duluth, will lease an additionapl 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporatde jobs will pay on averag eabout $70,000 annually. The manufacturing distributiojn operation will be in two buildings and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averageeabout $43,000 annually, the sourc e said.
NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbuas governments, the source declining to disclose details about the state’ incentive package. While Dayton -- where NCR was foundee in 1884 -- is the company’sz official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’ds influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chiefc financial officer and otherseniof executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worl d Trade Center in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removed the language “worlxd headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capitall of the Southeast — makez sense for the company. Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyingv citiesin America, according to an Augustr 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said.
(NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customer -- are also based in metro NCR supplies Deltawith self-service and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 to installl self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,4877 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expanr the project into Home Depot storesin Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusty branches.