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The decision was as much about consolidationn and cost saving as it wasabout Georgia’s $60 million incentive package, its demographics, infrastructurse and skilled workforce. The relocation will save the Fortunee 500company “tens of milliona of dollars” over the next decade, Nuti said. NCR’d (NYSE: NCR) decision to locate in Georgia, will bring more than 2,10o jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operationbin Columbus, Ga. That facility will be NCR’s firsg manufacturing plant in the Unitedr States sincethe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporate jobs from not just but from severalother U.S. Nuti said, declining to disclose the cities.
NCR will emplouy less than 50 in Dayton, where it will maintaibn a data center and sales andservice operations. The company currentlty has roughly 1,200 employeees in Dayton, where it has been headquarteredsinces 1884. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win the NCR The company views schools like as a potentialo labor pool and a partner for jointf innovationand development. The region’s relativelg robust economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure andcorporatr base, also helped win NCR over.
“We looked at all of these factors and Georgi a scored amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti Atlanta also got a little help from the economically depressedc Midwest. “Recruitment has been difficult in Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeasgt was also promptedby consolidation. “At the end of the day we reallu were a company that was widely Nuti said. Since NCR’d 1997 spin-off from AT&T, “thde company was everywhere and nowhere.” The company needex to consolidate into a single campusd to improve collaborationand productivity, he NCR’s executive offices, however, will remain in Manhattan, Nuti confirmed.
“That center surrounds our largestf and most major customers in the worlde in thebanking industry,” he “That’s where we host many of our customersa in the financial services base.”