NCR Corp is restructuring. This follows a dull first half performance which saw net profits down over 8% at $171.5m on turnover flat at $2,780m (CI No 1,222). In effect this performance is more likely to be a reflection of the state of the market than any inherent weakness within the company, but the executive officers have clearly taken it all to heart and have announced the reorganisation of the company into two new groups. The new groups are described as reflecting the company’s marketing strategy and are an Integrated Systems Group to provide integrated systems solutions for end users, and a General Purpose Products Group to offer general purpose computer products for NCR and third party integrators. The Integrated Systems Group will sell total systems solutions through the NCR direct sales force and will consist of five divisions: a new Self-Service Systems Division, based in Dundee, which will include the Dundee and Dunfermline engineering and manufacturing facilities in Scotland; a new Financial Systems Division to include the Dayton and Waterloo, Ontario, engineering and manufacturing facilities and the Utrecht, Netherlands, systems engineering facility; a new Office Information Systems Division which rises from the ashes of OIS-Columbia; while the Retail Systems Division spanning NCR’s engineering and manufacturing facilities in Oiso, Japan, Cambridge, Ohio, Atlanta, and Ithaca, New York and its Systems Engineering-Retail organisation in Dayton, along with the Hauppage, New York-based subsidiary Applied Digital Data Systems will remain as they are. The General Purpose Products Group has been set up to focus on the development of general purpose processors and systems that will be used by major accounts and adopted by units within the Integrated Systems Group, as well as by other OEM customers, resellers, distributors and independent software vendors. This Group will incorporate a new Multi-User Products Division encompassing the Colum-bia, San Diego and Orlando engineering and manufacturing facilities along with the San Diego systems engineering facility; a new Network Products Division comprised of the former NCR Comten organisation, based in St Paul, Minnesota, and the Columbia, South Carolina systems engineering facility; a new Workstation Products Division to include NCR’s former Personal Computer Division facilities in Dayton, Clemson, South Carolina and Augsburg, West Germany; a Peripherals Products Division formerly the Engineering & Manufacturing-Wichita organisation which will remain in Wichita; the Microelectronics Products Division, previously known as the Microelectonics Division; and the Copenhagen, Denmark, systems engineering facility which will remain unchanged. NCR has also created an Executive Committee to review its organisational strategic long range plans and general corporate projects.
