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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatee 1,250 corporate jobs to its Gwinnett County a source familiar with theplan said. The company is also expectecd to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturingg operation in Columbus, Ga., wher it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expectedx to make the officialannouncemeng Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklands spoke by phone Monday and Nuti told Strickland the company has been looking at Georgia for some an official in theOhio governor’s office told Atlantwa Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicles , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firstr reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), whicyh makes automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retail will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 companuy and the second in Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarter to Duluth fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, rankedf 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return callz Monday, reported a $228 million profitt on $5.3 billion in revenus last year.
Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwider Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investingf $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtred City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it woulfd co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customerd Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’w existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, whichg occupies about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevarx operationin Duluth, will lease an additionalk 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporate jobs will pay on averagdeabout $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distributionj operation will be in two buildings and will make according tothe source. Employees at that facilit will make on averageabout $43,000 the source said. NCR received tax incentivew from both Gwinnett andColumbues governments, the source said, declining to disclose details aboutr the state’s incentive package. Whilew Dayton -- where NCR was foundede in 1884 -- is the company’s officiaol headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’z influence. Nuti, along with the company’s chieff financial officer and othersenioer executives, maintain offices on an entir e floor of 7 World Trade Centere in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removed the languagde “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonh campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercialp capital of the Southeast — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyingb cities in America, according to an August 2008 repor in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruig talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the sourced said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customerse -- are also based in metrpo Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servicse kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkourt lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 stores. In the two companies announced a deal to expand the projectt into Home Depot stores in In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgraded existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all new SunTrust