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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocate 1,250p corporate jobs to its GwinnetrCounty operation, a sources familiar with the plan said. The companyg is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foogt manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will emplou nearly 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expecte d to make the official announcement NCR CEO Bill Nuti andOhio Gov. Ted Strickland spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been lookingb at Georgia forsome time, an officiao in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Businesws Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journak (DBJ).
In a lettere to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firs reported . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated tellermachinews (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortunes 500 company and the second in Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcedd the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth from New NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortun 500 list. The company, which did not returbn calls Monday, reported a $228 milliom profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it wouls move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investingy $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtre e City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulc co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customert Care Center hub for the Americas regiob withthe company’s existing Global Servic e Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies aboutt 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevardc operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,00o to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on averaged about $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operatio n will be in two buildinge and willmake ATMs, according to the source. Employeezs at that facility will make on averagdeabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receiveds tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose details abourt the state’s incentive package. While Dayton -- where NCR was foundesd in 1884 -- is the company’s official the city is not the centere ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, alonvg with the company’s chief financia officer and othersenior executives, maintain offices on an entirr floor of 7 Worlds Trade Center in Manhattan.
In NCR removed the language “world from the sign at its Daytonh campus. Nuti will not be movin g to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercialo capital of theSoutheast — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dying cities in America, accordinyg to an August 2008 reporgt in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said. (NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customerd -- are also based in metroo Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-serviced kiosks, and NCR and Home Depog announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkout lanees in about 800 of its 1,488 stores. In 2007, the two companies announcedr a deal to expand the projecf into Home Depot storesin Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR wouldx upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusrt branches.