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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatse 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnett County a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foof manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employh nearly 880, the source said. Georgiza Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the official announcement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Stricklan the company has been looking at Georgiaw forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’e office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayto Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtainecd by theChronicle , Strickland to convincer Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firstg reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makesx automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retai l self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 company and the secondr in Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocatiojn of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunde 500 list. The which did not return calls Monday, reported a $228 millionj profit on $5.3 billion in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it wouled move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometroo Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrees City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulsd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centeer hub for the Americas region withthe company’z existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, whicbh occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operatiomin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average aboutr $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distributionn operation will be in two buildings and will make according to the Employees at that facilityh will make on averagesabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivees from both Gwinnett andColumbu governments, the source said, declining to disclose details about the state’sd incentive package. While Dayton -- wherw NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’s officiap headquarters, the city is not the centet ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’x chief financial officer and other senior maintain offices on an entire floo of 7 World Trade Centerin Manhattan.
In March, NCR remover the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytobn campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercial capital of the Southeast makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dying citiese in America, according to an Augusy 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said. (NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metrp Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-service and NCR and Home Depotr announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkout lane in about 800 of its 1,487y stores.
In 2007, the two companiesa announced a deal to expand the projecft into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existing ATMs and providse new ATMs for all new SunTrust branches.