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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquartere and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as openinb a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operatiob in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 Officialsfor NCR, which has 1,300o workers in Dayton, could not be immediatelu reached for comment Monday night. An official from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland'se office, who spoke to the Dayton Businesds JournalMonday night, said NCR’s CEO Bill Nuti told Stricklandr that the company has been eyeing Georgiza for some time now. The , with local officialw expressing frustration that the company was not respondinyg totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialk announcement Tuesday with NCR receiving tax incentives from the locap officialsin Georgia. “They (NCR) can’ty recruit talent to move to Dayton, a source told the Chronicle. Montgomeryu County CommissionerDan Foley, sounding stunneed when reached Monday declined comment. In the letter Strickland sent to NCR datee Monday and obtained by the DaytoBusiness Journal, the governor said he was trying “to take one last opportunity to urge you to continuse your operations in Ohio.” In the letter, Ohio offeras NCR $31.1 million worth of incentives to keep the operationas here.
Strickland's spokesperson declined official comment until the announcementis made. NCR's departuree would leave a vacant 1.3 million-square-foot, five-storg office building near Dayton's downtown that is alreadhy hurting from high vacancy ratexs and jobs that have been leavingh the city during the pastseveral years. The loss of 1,3000 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negatives impacton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has faced multi-million dollar budget deficits that have causee it to reduce its workforce and cut Rashad Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reached out to NCR multiples times in recent months, and that the city did all it coulfd to engage the Ohio State Sen.
Jon Husted, said he will retain hope until the company makews anofficial announcement. “We have on multiplde occasions reached out to NCR in an attemprt to identify ways to securr their jobs and grow and be successful in Husted saidMonday evening. “j am not willing to give up hope.” Phil president and CEO, left a voice message after business hours for a reporter Mondat saying he hadno information. Toni Bankston, director of marketing and communications for the Dayton did not return callsseekinvg comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead privatew groups in the city responsible for retention ofexistingb companies.
In October, NCR said it woul d move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlanta suburb, investingt $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbxs of Peachtree City and Deluth. The state of Georgia providex morethan $8 million in according to officials. NCR, founded locally in is the Dayton region’s second largest company, with 20,0000 global employees and $5.3 billio n in revenue in 2008. The company, which sellas ATMs and retail automation is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,000 employees in the Daytonn area, but that number has dwindled durinhg the pastseveral decades.
As recently as two years ago, NCR had aboug 2,000 Dayton employees. That numberr has declined by about 700 workerssincer 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocating its executive offices to New York City and leasinvg an entire floor of the 7 Worlfd TradeCenter building. But, on its headquarters remainedin Dayton. In March, the compan y also told employees it is undergoing a structural reorganization and would cut an unknownn amount of itsglobal workforce.
That same the company removed thelanguage “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytobn campus, though it said at the time it was just