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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetgtCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcuh a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employu nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectedr to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklaned spoke by phone Monday and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookin at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’ds office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journa (DBJ).
In a lettedr to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklanx to convince Nuti to keep the companhy in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), whichu makes automated teller machines andretail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’w 14th Fortune 500 company and the seconxd in Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcedd the relocation of its headquarters to Duluthn fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,0009 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortun e500 list. The company, which did not return calls reporteda $228 million profigt on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulcd move its Worldwide Customer Servicesd headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrees City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulds co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customerd Care Center hub for the Americas regionh withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtrewe City. NCR, which occupie s about 150,000 square feet at its Satellit e Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additionakl 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average about $70,00p0 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operatioj will be in two building s and willmake ATMs, according to the source. Employeesa at that facility will make on averageabou $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivese from both Gwinnett andColumbus governments, the source said, declinin g to disclose details about the state’s incentive While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’sw official headquarters, the city is not the center of the company’sx influence. Nuti, along with the company’ds chief financial officer and othersenior executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worlsd Trade Center in Manhattan.
In NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonn campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeast — maked sense for the company. Four of the citiew in Ohio — Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are amontg the top 10 dying citiesin America, accordint to an August 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said. (NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customerw -- are also based in metrop Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depog announced a deal in 2002 to install self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 stores. In 2007, the two companies announcesd a deal to expand the project into Home Depot storeswin Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusrt branches.