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While NCR Corp. has announced plans to cut 5% to 10% of its 26,000-member workforce worldwide in the wake of weak third-quarter results, the U.S. subsidiary of Paderborn, Germany-based Wincor Nixdorf AG has hired 84 engineers during the past month. The company plans to hire an additional 100 workers, mostly engineers, in the next 90 days, Alan Walsh, Wincor Nixdorf USA vice president of banking, tells ATM&Debit News, a CardLine sister publication. The new workers will serve the company's services unit, which repairs and updates ATMs and other products, such as teller cash-recycling machines the company sells to banks, says Ulrich Seeman, Wincor Nixdorf USA vice president of services. Austin, Texas-based Wincor Nixdorf USA is hiring as the company continues to pick up more business from JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation's second-largest owner of bank ATMs, and from Wells Fargo & Co., the nation's third-largest ATM owner. New York-based Chase owned 15,038 ATMs and San Francisco-based Wells Fargo owned 12,352 ATMs as of Sept. 30. Gil Luria, an analyst with Los Angeles-based Wedbush Securities, says Wincor Nixdorf is building its services staff because it is "very small" compared with those of NCR and Diebold Inc., another top ATM manufacturer. That said, Wincor Nixdorf is capturing business from Diebold and NCR, Luria says.
