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was as much about consolidation and cost saviny as it wasabout Georgia’s $60 million incentivr package, its demographics, infrastructure and skilled workforce. The relocationm will save the Fortune 500company “tenes of millions of dollars” over the next NCR chief Bill Nuti told Atlanta Businesss Chronicle on Tuesday. NCR’s decision to locate in will bring morethan 2,100 jobs includinh nearly 900 to a manufacturing operation in That facility, will be NCR’s first manufacturing planft in the United State since the 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporates jobs from not just but from severalother U.S. locations, Nuti said, declining to disclos e the cities.
NCR will continue to employy less than 50 in where it will maintain a data center and sales andservicd operations. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win the NCR The company views schools like as a potential labod pool and a partne r for joint innovationand development. The region’s relativelyh robust economy, its supply chainj logistics infrastructure andcorporate base, also helper win NCR over. “We looked at all of thesse factors and Georgia scored amongst the highesgt ofall states,” Nuti said. Atlanta also got a littlre help from the economicallydepressed Midwest. “Recruitment has been difficultfin Ohio,” Nuti said.
NCR’s move to the Southeastf was also promptedby consolidation. “Atr the end of the day we really were a companh that waswidely dispersed.” Nuti Since NCR’s 1997 spin-off from AT&T, “thed company was everywhere and nowhere.” The company needes to consolidate into a single campus to improver collaboration and productivity, he said. NCR’s executivew offices, however, will remain in Nuti confirmed. “That center surrounds our largesty and most major customers in the world in thebankingf industry,” he said. “That’s where we host many of our customeres in the financialservices base.
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