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adding clout to metro Atlanta’sa technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,25 corporate jobs to its GwinnettyCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan said. The companyt is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturingv operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will emploty nearly 880, the sourc e said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectesd to make the officiapannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov.
Ted Strickland spoke by phone Monday and Nuti told Strickland the companty has been looking at Georgia forsome time, an officiall in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlantza Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal In a letter to Nuti obtainerd by the Chronicle , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the compant in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicl , and the DBJ , first reporteed . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automateed tellermachines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’ s 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocatioh of its headquarters to Dulutgh fromNew York.
NCR, which employs 20,000o employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calles Monday, reported a $228 millio n profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwid Customer Services headquarters to metro Atlanta, investing $15 millionm and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learnintg Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americasd region with the company’sz existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtrew City.
NCR, which occupiex about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operatiojin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,00 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporatew jobs will pay on averageabout $70,009 annually. The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facilityh will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnetrt andColumbus governments, the source said, declining to disclos details about the state’s incentive package.
Whiles Dayton -- where NCR was founder in 1884 -- is the company’s officialk headquarters, the city is not the centert ofthe company’s influence. along with the company’s chief financial officer and othedrsenior executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worle Trade Center in Manhattan. In NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayto campus. Nuti will not be moving to Atlanta.
Relocatinh to Atlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeast makes sense for the Four of the cities inOhio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayto and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dying citiez in America, according to an August 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talentf to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the source said. DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customerss -- 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 1,4878 stores. In 2007, the two companies announced a deal to expane the project into Home Depoy storesin Canada.
In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woule upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust branches.