The Adobe Flash Player is required to view this multimedia interactive. Get it here.

Hurd’s departure key in NCR saga

Asphalt can only be sealed; only concrete is resurfaced
10:43 a.m.
Dollar stores get wider range of customers
10:32 a.m.
Honda gets a double-shot of good consumer news
10:30 a.m.
Anthem puts emphasis on quality
10:29 a.m.
UD researcher uses know-how to photograph local eagles
5/25/12
> More headlines

By Tom Beyerlein, Staff Writer Updated 3:54 AM Monday, June 8, 2009

DAYTON — When Mark Hurd left NCR for the computer giant Hewlett-Packard, NCR was considering expanding its world headquarters in Dayton.

Four years later, the company has gone from expanding its Dayton footprint to virtually eliminating it.

Local officials now think the departure of Hurd, NCR’s former president and chief executive, was one of the key moments in the company’s decision to leave Dayton. They left a meeting with Hurd in March 2005 pumped up about the possibility of an expansion in Dayton. There was talk of hundreds of jobs being moved here.

“It was very positive, and if you’d asked us when we left that meeting, we’d have said there was a very, very strong likelihood” the expansion would happen, said Montgomery County Administrator Deborah Feldman.

State Sen. Jon Husted, then speaker of the Ohio House, also had been working with NCR officials and said Hurd was “very enthusiastic” about consolidating operations in Dayton and moving jobs here from other states. “While there was no signed deal, there was a deal in principle that we were just putting the finishing touches on,” Husted said.

Then, on March 29, 2005, Hurd announced that he was leaving NCR and Dayton.

In the months and years that followed, NCR’s plans dramatically changed.

Share this article