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adding clout to metro Atlanta’ss technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnet tCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan said. The compang is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-footf manufacturing operation in Ga., where it will emplouy nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Strickland spoke by phond Monday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookinfg at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’e office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journalo (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtainex by theChronicle , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the companyg in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicls , and the DBJ , first reportef . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automated teller machinexs (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’ds 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocatiobn of its headquarters to Duluth from New York. NCR, whichb employs 20,000 employees ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortun500 list. The company, which did not return calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billiohn in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woul move its Worldwide Customer Serviceas headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 milliob and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtre City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-locatew an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centet hub for the Americas regiom withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellitee Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average about $70,00o0 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facilityy will make on averageabourt $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivews from both Gwinnett andColumbues governments, the source said, declining to disclose details abouf the state’s incentive package. While Daytojn -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’sx official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’d influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chief financiapl officer and othersenior executives, maintain officesw on an entire floor of 7 Worldc Trade Center in Manhattan.
In NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytohn campus. Nuti will not be movintg to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of the Southeast makes sense forthe company. Four of the citiees in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dyinvg citiesin America, according to an Augusg 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customersw -- are also based in metro Atlanta.
NCR suppliews Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depog announced a deal in 2002 toinstalp self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,48 7 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expandr the project into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR wouldc upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all new SunTrust