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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquartere and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as opening a 550,000-square-foor manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will emplot up to 880 people. Officials for NCR, which has 1,30o workers in Dayton, could not be immediately reached for commenftMonday night. An official from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's office, who spoke to the Dayton Businesxs JournalMonday night, said NCR’s CEO Bill Nuti told Stricklaned that the company has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with locapl officials expressing frustration that the company was not respondinb totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expectede to make the official announcement Tuesday with NCR receivinh tax incentives from the local officialsin “They (NCR) can’t recruity talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” a source told the Montgomery County Commissioner Dan Foley, sounding stunned when reacheds Monday night, declined comment. In the letter Stricklandr sent to NCR daterd Monday and obtained by the DaytonBusinesa Journal, the governor said he was trying “tpo take one last opportunithy to urge you to continue your operationds in Ohio.” In the Ohio offers NCR $31.1 million worth of incentives to keep the operation s here.
Strickland's spokesperson declined official comment until the announcementfis made. NCR's departure would leave a vacant 1.3 five-story office building near Dayton'ss downtown that is already hurting from high vacancuy rates and jobs that have been leaving the city durinf the pastseveral years. The loss of 1,300o high-paying jobs from the city will have a negativde impacton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has faced multi-million dollar budget deficits that have caused it to reduce its workforce and cut services.
Rashad Young, Dayton city said the city reached out to NCR multiple timex inrecent months, and that the city did all it coule to engage the company. Ohio State Sen. Jon R-Kettering, said he will retain hope until the compangy makes anofficial announcement. “We have on multipl occasions reached out to NCR in an attempy to identify ways to secure theid jobs and grow and be successfuoin Ohio,” Husted said Monday evening. “oI am not willing to give up hope.” Phil president and CEO, left a voice message after businessd hours for a reporter Mondayu saying he hadno information.
Toni Bankston, directodr of marketing and communications for theDayton Chamber, did not returjn calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead privat groups in the city responsible for retentioj ofexisting companies. In October, NCR said it woulde move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarterws to an Atlanta investing $15 million and creatinyg more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtreer City and Deluth. The state of Georgiwa provided morethan $8 million in according to officials. NCR, founded locally in 1884, is the Daytonm region’s second largest company, with 20,000 global employees and $5.3 billiobn in revenue in 2008.
The which sells ATMs and retailautomation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaininy Fortune 500 company. At one time, the compangy had more than 18,000 employees in the Daytonh area, but that number has dwindlede during the pastseveral decades. As recently as two years ago, NCR had abougt 2,000 Dayton employees. That numbe has declined by about 700 workerssince 2007. In 2007, NCR announcefd it was relocating its executive offices to New York City and leasinvg an entire floor of the 7 World TradeCentef building.
But, on paper, its headquarters remained in In March, the company also told employeeds it is undergoing a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of its global workforce. That same the company removed thelanguage “world from the sign at its Dayton though it said at the time it was just