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was as much about consolidation and cost saving as it was about Georgia’s $60 million incentive its demographics, infrastructure and skilled The relocation will save the Fortune 500 company “tene of millions of dollars” over the next decade, NCR chiegf Bill Nuti told Atlanta Business Chronicle on Tuesday. NCR’s decisiomn to locate in Georgia, will bring more than 2,100 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operationin Columbus. That will be NCR’s first manufacturing plant in the Unitedc States sincethe 1970s. NCR is consolidatiny corporate jobs from notjust Dayton, but from several other U.S. Nuti said, declining to disclose the cities.
NCR will continue to employ less than 50 in where it will maintain a data centee and sales andservicew operations. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win the NCR The company views schools like as a potential labofr pool and a partner for joiny innovationand development. The region’se relatively robust economy, its supply chain logisticas infrastructure andcorporate base, also helpe d win NCR over. “Wer looked at all of these factore and Georgia scored amongst the highest of all Nuti said. Atlanta also got a little help from the economicallygdepressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficulyin Ohio,” Nuti NCR’s move to the Southeasgt was also prompted by consolidation. “Aty the end of the day we reallt were a company that waswidely dispersed.” Nuti said. Sincs NCR’s 1997 spin-off from “the company was everywhere and nowhere.” The company needed to consolidate into a single campus to improve collaboratiomnand productivity, he said. NCR’s executive offices, however, will remain in Manhattan, Nuti “That center surrounds our largest and most majot customers in the world in thebankinvg industry,” he said.
“That’s where we host many of our customersa in the financialservices base.”