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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarters and 1,250 jobs to Ga., as well as opening a 550,000-square-foot manufacturint operation in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 people. Officialz for NCR, which has 1,300 workers in Dayton, couldd not be immediately reached for comment Monday An official fromOhio Gov. Ted Strickland's office, who spokre to the Dayton Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’ds CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the company has been eyein g Georgia for some time now. The , with local officialzs expressing frustration that the compangy was not responding to their Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialk announcement Tuesday with NCR receiving tax incentives from the local officialsin Georgia. “They (NCR) can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” a source told the Chronicle. Montgomery Countyy CommissionerDan Foley, sounding stunned when reached Monday night, declined comment. In the letter Strickland sent to NCR datecd Monday and obtained by the DaytomnBusiness Journal, the governor said he was tryinb “to take one last opportunityg to urge you to continu e your operations in Ohio.” In the Ohio offers NCR $31.1 million worthn of incentives to keep the operations here.
Strickland' spokesperson declined official comment until the announcemenis made. NCR's departure would leave a vacant 1.3 five-story office building near Dayton's downtowmn that is already hurtintg from high vacancy rates and jobs that have been leavint the city during the pastseveral years. The loss of 1,3090 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negativ impacton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has facedr multi-million dollar budget deficits that have causeed it to reduce its workforce and cut services. Rashacd Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reached out to NCR multiplee times inrecent months, and that the city did all it coulx to engage the company.
Ohio Stater Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, said he will retain hope untipl the company makes anofficial announcement. “We have on multiple occasions reached out to NCR in an attempyt to identify ways to secure their jobs and grow and be successfulin Ohio,” Husteds said Monday evening. “I am not willing to give up hope.” Phil Parker, presideny and CEO, left a voice message after businesz hours for a reporter Monday saying he had no Toni Bankston, director of marketing and communications for the Daytohn Chamber, did not return calls seeking comment. The Daytonn Chamber is one of the lead private groups in the city responsible for retention ofexisting companies.
In NCR said it woul move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantas suburb, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbxs of Peachtree City and Deluth. The statre of Georgia provided morethan $8 millioj in incentives, according to officials. NCR, founded locally in is the Dayton region’s secon d largest company, with 20,000 global employees and $5.3 billionh in revenue in 2008. The which sells ATMs and retai lautomation systems, is Dayton’s lone remainingt Fortune 500 company. At one time, the company had more than 18,0009 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindled during the pastseverao decades.
As recently as two years ago, NCR had aboutf 2,000 Dayton employees. That number has declined by aboug 700 workerssince 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocatinyg its executive offices to New York City and leasinvg an entire floor of the 7 Worldd TradeCenter building. But, on its headquarters remained in In March, the company also told employees it is undergoinyg a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amountg of its global workforce.
That same the company removed thelanguage “world from the sign at its Dayton campus, thoughg it said at the time it was just