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was as much about consolidatiob and cost saving as it wasaboug Georgia’s $60 million incentive its demographics, infrastructure and skilled workforce. The relocation will save the Fortunwe 500company “tens of millions of dollars” over the next NCR chief Bill Nuti told Atlanta Business Chronicle on NCR’s decision to locats in Georgia, will bring more than 2,109 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operationn in Columbus. That facility, will be NCR’w first manufacturing plant in the United States since the NCR is consolidating corporate jobs from notjust Dayton, but from severapl other U.S.
locations, Nuti said, declining to disclose the NCR will continue to employ less than 50 in where it will maintain a data centet and sales andservice operations. Atlanta’s academicd institutions also helped win the NCR The company views schools like as a potential labor pool and a partner for joint innovationand development. The region’s relatively robusg economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructuree andcorporate base, also helped win NCR “We looked at all of thes factors and Georgia scored amongst the highest of all states,” Nuti Atlanta also got a little help from the economicallyy depressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficultin Ohio,” Nuti said. NCR’as move to the Southeast was also promptecdby consolidation. “At the end of the day we reallt were a company that waswidel dispersed.” Nuti said. Since NCR’zs 1997 spin-off from AT&T, “the companhy was everywhere and nowhere.” The company needesd to consolidate into a single campus to improvre collaborationand productivity, he said. NCR’s executive however, will remain in Manhattan, Nuti confirmed.
“Thaty center surrounds our largest and most majord customers in the world in thebanking industry,” he “That’s where we host many of our customers in the financial services base.”