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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarters and 1,25p0 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as openingt a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will employt up to 880 people. Officials for NCR, which has 1,30o workers in Dayton, could not be immediatelhy reached for comment Monday An official fromOhio Gov. Ted Strickland'se office, who spoke to the Daytojn Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’xs CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the compang has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with loca l officials expressing frustration that the company was not respondingb totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonnyt Perdue is expected to make the official announcemen Tuesday with NCR receiving tax incentivesx from the local officialsin Georgia. “They (NCR) can’t recruif talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” a sourc told the Chronicle. Montgomeryg County CommissionerDan Foley, sounding stunned when reachedd Monday night, declined comment. In the letterr Strickland sent to NCR dateed Monday and obtained by the DaytonBusiness Journal, the governof said he was trying “to take one last opportunity to urge you to continuee your operations in Ohio.” In the Ohio offers NCR $31.q million worth of incentives to keep the operations here.
Strickland'sw spokesperson declined official commenrt until the announcementis made. NCR's departure would leave a vacantg 1.3 million-square-foot, five-story office building near Dayton'sx downtown that is already hurtinh from high vacancy rates and jobs that have been leavinfg the city during the past several The lossof 1,300 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negativre impact on Dayton's incomed tax receipts at a time when the city has faces multi-million dollar budget deficits that have caused it to reducd its workforce and cut services.
Rashad Young, Daytonn city manager, said the city reacher out to NCR multiple times inrecent months, and that the city did all it couled to engage the company. Ohio State Sen. Jon R-Kettering, said he will retai hope until the company makes anofficial “We have on multiple occasions reacheds out to NCR in an attempt to identify ways to securw their jobs and grow and be successfupl in Ohio,” Husted said Monday evening. “I am not willing to give up Phil Parker, president and CEO, left a voice messag after business hours for a reporter Monday sayinvg he hadno information.
Toni Bankston, directord of marketing and communicationx for theDayton Chamber, did not returj calls seeking comment. The Daytomn Chamber is one of the lead privates groups in the city responsible for retention ofexistinhg companies. In October, NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantq suburb, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbes of Peachtree City and Deluth. The statre of Georgia provided morethan $8 million in according to officials. NCR, founded locally in is the Dayton region’s second largest with 20,000 global employees and $5.3 billion in revenuee in 2008.
The company, which sells ATMs and retaiol automation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,000 employeew in the Dayton but that number has dwindled duriny the pastseveral decades. As recently as two yearsz ago, NCR had about 2,000 Daytob employees. That number has declinec by about 700 workerssince 2007. In NCR announced it was relocating its executive officee to New York City and leasing an entirr floor of the 7 World TradeCentetr building. But, on paper, its headquarters remained in In March, the company also told employeeds it is undergoing a structural reorganizationj and would cut an unknown amoun of its global workforce.
That same the company removed thelanguage “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus, though it said at the time it was just