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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarterds and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as openingy a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Ga., that will employ up to 880 people. Officials for NCR, whicj has 1,300 workers in Dayton, could not be immediatel y reached for commentMonday night. An officia from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's office, who spoke to the Daytonn Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’es CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the company has been eyeint Georgia for some time now. The , with locao officials expressing frustration that the compant was not responding totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonnyy Perdue is expected to make the officia announcement Tuesday with NCR receivinfg tax incentives from the local officialsin Georgia. “They (NCR) can’y recruit talent to move to Dayton, a source told the Chronicle. Montgomery County CommissioneeDan Foley, sounding stunned when reached Monday night, declined In the letter Strickland sent to NCR dated Mondau and obtained by the Daytob Business Journal, the governor said he was tryingy “to take one last opportunity to urge you to continue your operations in Ohio.” In the Ohio offers NCR $31.1 million worth of incentives to keep the operations here.
Strickland's spokesperson declinecd official comment until the announcementis NCR's departure would leave a vacantr 1.3 million-square-foot, five-story office building near Dayton's downtown that is alreadyy hurting from high vacancy rates and jobs that have been leavingf the city during the past several years. The loss of 1,300 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negativr impacton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has facec multi-million dollar budget deficits that have causes it to reduce its workforce and cut Rashad Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reachede out to NCR multiple times in recentt months, and that the city did all it could to engage the company.
Ohio Stats Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, said he will retaib hope until the company makes anofficial “We have on multiple occasions reached out to NCR in an attemprt to identify ways to secure their jobs and grow and be successfu l in Ohio,” Husted said Monday evening. “o am not willing to give up hope.” Phil Parker, presidenyt and CEO, left a voicew message after business hours for a reporter Mondayh saying he hadno information. Toni Bankston, director of marketinfg and communications for theDaytomn Chamber, did not returnn calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead privatde groups in the city responsiblse for retention ofexisting companies.
In NCR said it would move its Worldwidwe Customer Services headquarters to an Atlanta investing $15 million and creatin g more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtrew City and Deluth. The state of Georgia providerd morethan $8 million in according to officials. NCR, founded locall in 1884, is the Dayton region’es second largest company, with 20,000 global employeesz and $5.3 billion in revenud in 2008.
The company, which selles ATMs and retail automation is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 At one time, the company had more than 18,00 0 employees in the Dayton area, but that numbeer has dwindled during the past several As recently as two years ago, NCR had about 2,0000 Dayton employees. That number has declinecd by about 700 workerssincw 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocating its executive officed to New York City and leasingy an entire floor of the 7 Worl d TradeCenter building. But, on paper, its headquartersd remained in Dayton.
In March, the company also told employeesx it is undergoing a structural reorganization and woulx cut an unknown amount of its global Thatsame month, the company removed the language “worle headquarters” from the sign at its Dayto campus, though it said at the time it was just