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Government officials said word began swirling in the community Thursday thatNCR NCR) is planning to move its headquarterds and 1,300 employees to the Atlantqa area and make an announcement about the move this NCR Global Spokesperson Richard Maton, speaking by phone Saturday from London, confirmed that an effort was made for Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklandf and NCR Chief Executive Officer Bill Nuti to however they were not ableto connect. Strickland’s spokesperson said Saturdauy that heis “continuing to reacgh out to the company to have a direcf conversation.
” When asked abouty NCR possibly moving its headquarters out of Maton said the company does not responrd to rumors and speculation. NCR Corporate Spokesperson Alan Ulman responded to questionsabout NCR’s plans with an e-mailk message Saturday that read: “We have no announcement today.” In the NCR has been quick to deny rumorzs of its relocation and affirmj its commitment to remaining in The has repeatedly soughg information from the company since Thursday, but NCR had not responde to their requests as of Friday evening, a developmeng department spokesperson said. Montgomery County Commissionet Dan Foley said he is frustrate by the lackof communication.
Foley said he has askedf multiplecompany officials, via e-mail, to responed to the rumors, but has yet to receive any Foley said he, along with other county, state and city of Daytob officials, have met with NCR representatives in the past in an effor t to safeguard NCR’s local jobs. “All that nobody has confirmed to me that thei statushas changed,” Foley said Saturday. “Ik have to assume that -- I hope, I very much hope -- they are stayingt in Dayton, because our citizens have helped build that companh up tobe world-class and will continue to do Rumors have long circulated that the company would move, however multiple government and economid development officials said they reachede a new level in the past few NCR is said to be seeking about 100,00p square feet of office space in .
NCR is believed to have looked at sitezsin Savannah, and Columbus, Ga. Based on the squarde footage estimates, the operation could house abouty 300 to400 people, according to real estatw sources. Georgia government and economic development officials remained tight-lipped on any potential development. In October, NCR said it wouldc move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarterws to anAtlanta suburb, investinfg $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtrer City and Deluth.
The state of Georgia providexd morethan $8 million in incentives, according to NCR, founded locally in 1884, is the Daytomn region’s second largest company, with 20,000 global employeese and $5.3 billion in revenure in 2008. The company, which sellsw ATMs and retail automation is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 At one time, the company had more than 18,00o0 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindled during the past severakl decades. As recently as two years ago, NCR had aboutt 2,000 Dayton employees.
That number has declined by abou t 700 workers in the past several In 2007, NCR announcec it was relocating its executive officew to New York City and leasing an entirde floor of the 7 World Tradde Center building. But, on paper, its headquarterse remained in Dayton. In the company also told employees it is undergoingf a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amounr of itsglobal workforce.
That same the company removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus, though it said at the time it was just