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was as much about consolidation and cost savinvg as it wasabout Georgia’s $60 million incentive package, its demographics, infrastructure and skilled workforce. The relocatioj will save the Fortune 500company “tens of millionw of dollars” over the next NCR chief Bill Nuti told Atlant a Business Chronicle on Tuesday. NCR’es decision to locate in Georgia, will bringv more than 2,100 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operationin Columbus. That facility, will be NCR’se first manufacturing plant in the United States sincrethe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporate jobs from not just but from severalother U.S.
locations, Nuti said, declining to disclose the NCR will continue to employ less than 50 in where it will maintain a data centef and sales andservicre operations. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win the NCR The company views schools like as a potentiao labor pool and a partner for jointg innovationand development. The region’s relatively robustt economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure andcorporatre base, also helped win NCR over. “Wew looked at all of thesw factors and Georgia scored amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti Atlanta also got a little help from the economicall y depressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficulgtin Ohio,” Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeast was also promptesdby consolidation. “At the end of the day we reallyy were a company that waswidelhy dispersed.” Nuti said. Since NCR’s 1997 spin-off from “the company was everywhere and nowhere.” The company needec to consolidate into a single campus to improvew collaborationand productivity, he said. NCR’s executive offices, however, will remain in Manhattan, Nuti “That center surrounds our largestf and most major customers in the worlc in thebanking industry,” he said.
“That’s where we host many of our customerse in the financialservices base.”