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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnett County a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcyha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source said. Georgiz Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Stricklands spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the companyg has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlantaz Business Chronicle sister publicatio Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letterf to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicld , and the DBJ , firstf reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), whicjh makes automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retail will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 company and the secondx in Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocatiomn of its headquarters to Dulutu fromNew York. NCR, whichu employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunr500 list. The company, which did not retur calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarterws tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millioj and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrew City and Duluth. In NCR said it would co-locatw an NCR Learning Centedr and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americaw region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materialz operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,0090 square feet at its Satellite Boulevare operationin Duluth, will leass an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on averagre about $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingsd and willmake ATMs, according to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averageabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivecd tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose detaild about the state’s incentive While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’x official headquarters, the city is not the center of the company’a influence. Nuti, along with the company’sw chief financial officer and othe rsenior executives, maintain offices on an entirr floor of 7 Worlsd Trade Center in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removeds the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayto n campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capitalo of the Southeast — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dyinbg cities in America, according to an Augusrt 2008 report in Forbes. “Thety [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said.
(NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customera -- are also based in metro NCR supplies Deltawith self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 to install self-checkout lane in about 800 of its 1,487 stores. In 2007, the two companieds announced a deal to expand the projecft into Home Depot storesin Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust branches.