sexta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2012

Source: NCR to move headquarters, 1,300 jobs to Georgia - Birmingham Business Journal:

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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarterxs and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as opening a 550,000-square-footr manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will emplo y up to 880 Officialsfor NCR, which has 1,300 workers in Dayton, coulxd not be immediately reached for comment Monday night. An official from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's who spoke to the Dayton Business Journal Monday night, said NCR’s CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the companyt has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with locall officials expressing frustration that the company was not respondingt totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expectexd to make the official announcement Tuesday with NCR receivintg tax incentives from the local officialsin “They (NCR) can’t recruit talenty to move to Dayton, Ohio,” a source told the Chronicle. Montgomergy County Commissioner Dan sounding stunned when reachedMonday night, declined In the letter Strickland sent to NCR date d Monday and obtained by the Dayton Businesxs Journal, the governor said he was trying “tol take one last opportunituy to urge you to continue your operations in In the letter, Ohio offers NCR $31.
21 million worth of incentives to keep the operations Strickland's spokesperson declined official commen t until the announcement is made. NCR'sx departure would leave a vacant 1.3 five-story office building near Dayton'sz downtown that is already hurting from high vacancy rateds and jobs that have been leaving the city during the pastseverak years. The loss of 1,300 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negative impacton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has face d multi-million dollar budget deficits that have caused it to reducer its workforce and cut services.
Rashafd Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reachexd out to NCR multiple timesd inrecent months, and that the city did all it coulx to engage the company. Ohio State Sen. Jon Husted, said he will retain hope until the companhy makes anofficial announcement. “We have on multiple occasionz reached out to NCR in an attempt to identify ways to securd their jobs and grow and be successful in Husted saidMonday evening. “I am not willin to give up hope.
” Phil Parker, presiden t and CEO, left a voice message after businesz hours for a reporter Monday saying he had no Toni Bankston, director of marketinb and communications for the Dayton Chamber, did not returjn calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead privatde groups in the city responsible for retention of existing In October, NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customerf Services headquarters to an Atlanta suburb, investinyg $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbe of Peachtree City and Deluth. The state of Georgi provided morethan $8 million in according to officials.
NCR, foundeds locally in 1884, is the Daytoj region’s second largest company, with 20,000 global employees and $5.3 billion in revenue in 2008. The which sells ATMs and retaillautomation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortunee 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,0090 employees in the Dayton area, but that numbed has dwindled during the pastseveraol decades. As recently as two years ago, NCR had abouf 2,000 Dayton employees. That number has declined by abou t 700 workerssince 2007. In NCR announced it was relocating its executive officesa to New York City and leasing an entirew floor of the 7 World TradeCenter building.
But, on its headquarters remainedin Dayton. In the company also told employees it is undergoing a structurao reorganization and would cut an unknownm amount of itsglobal workforce. That same month, the companyy removed the language “world from the sign at its Dayton though it said at the time it wasjust

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