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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technologyg reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetytCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expectec to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., wheree it will employ nearly 880, the sourcr said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectedf to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Strickland spokee by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the companu has been looking at Georgia for some an official in the Ohio governor’s officw told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Businesse Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Strickland to convincee Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsrt reported . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated teller machines andretail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 compang and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcefd the relocation of its headquarters to Duluthu from New York. NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, rankedd 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calls Monday, reportec a $228 million profity on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last NCR said it would move its Worldwides Customer Services headquarters tometrko Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrede City and Duluth. In NCR said it would co-locatw an NCR Learning Center and its Customee Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’sd existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtreew City. NCR, which occupies about 150,000 squares feet at its Satellite Boulevare operationin Duluth, will leas an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average aboutr $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operationn will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facility will make on averageeabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivesa from both Gwinnett andColumbus governments, the sourcer said, declining to disclose details about the state’s incentivse package. While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’sd official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’ s influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chieg financial officer and othersenior executives, maintainj offices on an entire floor of 7 Worldr Trade Center in Manhattan.
In NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of the Southeast makes sense for the Four of the cities inOhio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinb cities in America, accordinfg to an August 2008 report in Forbes. “Thegy [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customer s -- are also basedx in metro Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servicse kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstallo self-checkout lanes in aboutg 800 of its 1,487 stores. In the two companies announced a deal to expanr the project into Home Depot storesin Canada. In SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusrt branches.