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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporatr jobs to its GwinnetfCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturin operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearlyt 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonnt Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklancd spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compant has been looking at Georgia for some time, an officiakl in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlant a Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lette r to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklandd to convince Nuti to keep the companh in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsy reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automated teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortunw 500 company and the secondin Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulut h fromNew York. NCR, which employsz 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 list. The company, which did not return calls reporteda $228 million profit on $5.3 billioh in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulf move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to metro investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centetr hub for the Americaw region with the company’s existing Global Service Materials operatioh in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellitw Boulevard operationin Duluth, will leasd an additional 100,000 to 200,000p square feet at that facility. The corporate jobs will pay on averagewabout $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distributiom operation will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employeed at that facility will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivedd tax incentives from both Gwinnety andColumbus governments, the source said, declining to discloswe details about the state’s incentivew package. While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’ss official headquarters, the city is not the centetr ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’z chief financial officer and other senior maintain offices on an entire floofr of 7 World Trade Centerin Manhattan.
In March, NCR removex the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton Nuti will not be movingto Atlanta. Relocatinbg to Atlanta — the commercial capital of theSoutheast — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyingh cities in America, according to an August 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the source said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customer s -- are also based in metrio Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-service and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstal self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,4877 stores. In 2007, the two companiesd announced a deal to expand the projecrt into Home Depot storesin Canada. In 2005, SunTrusr said NCR would upgrade existinb ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust branches.