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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarters and 1,250 jobs to Ga., as well as openingt a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 people. Officialsd for NCR, which has 1,300p workers in Dayton, could not be immediately reachedc for comment Monday An official fromOhio Gov. Ted Strickland's who spoke to the Dayton Business Journal Monday said NCR’s CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the compangy has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with locak officials expressing frustration that the company was not respondint totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the official announcementr Tuesday with NCR receiving tax incentives from the local officialzin Georgia. “They (NCR) can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” a source told the Montgomery County CommissionerDan Foley, sounding stunned when reached Mondau night, declined comment. In the letteer Strickland sent to NCR dated Monday and obtained by the DaytomnBusiness Journal, the governor said he was trying “to take one last opportunityt 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 declined official comment until the announcementis NCR's departure would leave a vacant 1.3 five-story office building near Dayton's downtow n that is already hurting from high vacancy ratez and jobs that have been leaving the city during the past several years. The loss of 1,309 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negatives impacton Dayton's income tax receiptes at a time when the city has faced multi-million dollare budget deficits that have caused it to reduc its workforce and cut Rashad Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reached out to NCR multipld times in recent months, and that the city did all it coulxd to engage the company.
Ohio Stated Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, said he will retaimn hope until the company makes anofficiap announcement. “We have on multiple occasionsx reached out to NCR in an attempt to identifg ways to secure their jobs and grow and be successful in Husted saidMonday evening. “I am not willin g to give up hope.” Phil Parker, president and CEO, left a voice message after business hours for a reportee Monday saying he hadno information. Toni director of marketing and communications for theDayton Chamber, did not return calls seeking comment. The Daytomn Chamber is one of the lead private groupse in the city responsible for retention ofexistinb companies.
In October, NCR said it woulrd move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantaw suburb, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbse of Peachtree City and Deluth. The statw of Georgia provided morethan $8 millioj in incentives, according to officials. NCR, founded locall y in 1884, is the Dayton region’s secondx largest company, with 20,000 global employeese and $5.3 billion in revenue in 2008. The company, which sella ATMs and retail automation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortuned 500 company. At one time, the company had more than 18,00p employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindled during the pastseveral decades.
As recentl as two years ago, NCR had about 2,000 Daytohn employees. That number has declined by abouty 700 workerssince 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocatinhg its executive offices to New York City and leasingf an entire floor of the 7 World TradeCente building. But, on paper, its headquarters remained in In March, the company also told employees it is undergoing a structura l reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of its globalk workforce.
That same month, the company removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus, though it said at the time it wasjust