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adding clout to metr o Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,2500 corporate jobs to its Gwinnett County a source familiar with theplan said. The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturin g operation in Columbus, Ga., wher e it will employ nearly 880, the sourcs said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectexd to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Stricklandf spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Stricklanrd the company has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’sx office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Daytom Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettet to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklane to convince Nuti to keep the companyg in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chroniclw , and the DBJ , firsyt reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automater teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’ s 14th Fortune 500 companuy and the secondin Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulut fromNew York. NCR, which employz 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortuned500 list. The company, which did not return calls reporteda $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last NCR said it wouldc move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarter tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrese City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulrd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Custome r Care Center hub for the Americas regionj withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtre e City. NCR, which occupies aboutr 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevarc operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,000o square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on averages about $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingse and willmake ATMs, accordintg to the source. Employees at that facilitty will make on averageabourt $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivedc tax incentives from both Gwinnett andColumbuas governments, the source said, declining to disclose details about the state’s incentive While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’as official headquarters, the city is not the centeer of the company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’w chief financial officer and othersenior executives, maintain officee on an entire floor of 7 World Trade Centetr in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removed the languag e “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytojn campus. Nuti will not be movinyg to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeast makes sense forthe company. Four of the citiesx in Ohio — Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dying citieain America, according to an August 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talenrt to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: DAL), HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customerds -- are also based in metrlo Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servicw kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 to install self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,48 stores. In 2007, the two companies announcede a deal to expand the project into Home Depo storesin Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existingb ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusg branches.