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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarterws and 1,250 jobs to Ga., as well as openintg a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 people. Officials for NCR, which has 1,3009 workers in Dayton, could not be immediately reacheds for commentMonday night. An officiall from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's office, who spoks to the Dayton Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’sd CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the companhy has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with loca officials expressing frustration that the company was not responding totheifr requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the official announcement Tuesday with NCR receivingv tax incentives from the locak officialsin Georgia. “They can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, a source told the Montgomery County CommissionerDan Foley, soundinvg stunned when reached Monday night, declined comment. In the letter Stricklansd sent to NCR dated Monday and obtainedd by the Dayton Business the governor said he wastrying “to take one last opportunit y to urge you to continue your operationxs in Ohio.” In the letter, Ohio offerd 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 vacanr 1.3 million-square-foot, five-story office buildinf near Dayton's downtown that is alreadyh hurting from high vacancy rates and jobs that have been leaving the city during the past several years. The loss of 1,300 high-payingv jobs from the city will have a negative impacton Dayton'ws income tax receipts at a time when the city has facex multi-million dollar budget deficits that have caused it to reduce its workforcde and cut services.
Rashad Young, Dayton city said the city reached out to NCR multiplre times inrecent months, and that the city did all it coul to engage the company. Ohio State Sen. Jon R-Kettering, said he will retain hope untio the company makes anofficia announcement. “We have on multiple occasions reache out to NCR in an attempt to identify ways to securer their jobs and grow and be successfulin Ohio,” Husted said Mondah evening. “I am not willingg to give up hope.
” Phil Parker, presidenft and CEO, left a voice messag e after business hours for a reporter Monday saying he had no Toni Bankston, director of marketing and communications for the Dayton Chamber, did not return calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chambet is one of the lead private groups in the city responsible for retention ofexisting companies. In NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantwa suburb, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtree City and Deluth. The state of Georgiaw provided morethan $8 million in according to officials.
NCR, founder locally in 1884, is the Dayton region’zs second largest company, with 20,000o global employees and $5.3 billion in revenu e in 2008. The company, whichg sells ATMs and retail automation systems, is Dayton’sw lone remaining Fortune 500 company. At one time, the compan had more than 18,000 employees in the Daytom area, but that number has dwindled during the pastseveral decades. As recentluy as two years ago, NCR had about 2,000 Daytomn employees. That number has declined by about 700 workeressince 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocatin its executive offices to New York City and leasinfg an entire floor of the 7 World TradCenter building.
But, on paper, its headquarters remainexd in Dayton. In March, the company also told employees it is undergoing a structural reorganization and would cut an unknowj amount of itsglobal workforce. That same the company removed thelanguage “world from the sign at its Dayton campus, though it said at the time it was just