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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarters and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as openinv a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 Officialsfor NCR, which has 1,300o workers in Dayton, could not be immediatelyh reached for comment Monday night. An official from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland'as office, who spoke to the Dayton Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’s CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the companty has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with locall officials expressing frustration that the compan was not responding totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officia announcement Tuesday with NCR receiving tax incentivesw from the local officialsin Georgia. “Theyu (NCR) can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” a source told the Chronicle. Montgomery County Commissioner Dan sounding stunned when reachedMondah night, declined comment. In the letter Strickland sent to NCR datedd Monday and obtained by the DaytonBusiness Journal, the governorr said he was trying “to take one last opportunityg to urge you to continue your operations in In the letter, Ohio offers NCR $31.1 million worth of incentives to keep the operationw here.
Strickland's spokesperson declined official comment until the announcemen tis made. NCR's departure wouled leave a vacant 1.3 million-square-foot, five-story office building near Dayton's downtown that is already hurtinhg from high vacancy rates and jobs that have been leavingv the city during the pastseveral years. The loss of 1,30p0 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negative impactton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has facesd multi-million dollar budget deficits that have caused it to reducs its workforce and cut services.
Rasha d Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reached out to NCR multipled times inrecent months, and that the city did all it coulfd to engage the company. Ohio State Sen. Jon R-Kettering, said he will retain hope until the compan y makes anofficial announcement. “We have on multipler occasions reached out to NCR in an attemptr to identify ways to securse their jobs and grow and be successful in Husted saidMonday evening. “I am not willinhg to give up hope.” Phil Parker, presiden t and CEO, left a voicr message after business hours for a reporter Monday sayinhg he hadno information.
Toni director of marketing and communications for theDayton Chamber, did not returbn calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead private groups in the city responsible for retentionh ofexisting companies. In October, NCR said it woule move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantsa suburb, investing $15 million and creatingf more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtree City and The state of Georgia provided more than $8 million in incentives, accordingv to officials. NCR, founded locally in 1884, is the Dayton region’d second largest company, with 20,000 globall employees and $5.3 billion in revenue in 2008.
The which sells ATMs and retaikautomation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaininbg Fortune 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,000 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindled duringv the past several As recently as twoyears ago, NCR had about 2,000 Dayton employees. That number has decline by about 700 workerssincre 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocatingg its executive offices to New York City and leasint an entire floor of the 7 Worldx TradeCenter building. But, on paper, its headquarterd remained in Dayton. In the company also told employees it is undergoingb a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of itsglobap workforce.
That same month, the company removed the languagw “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytom campus, though it said at the time it wasjust temporary.