Jobs axed as phone company folds

12:40pm Monday 15th December 2008

A mobile telephone wholesale business has gone into administration with the loss of 35 jobs.

BMW scraps another shift

2:35pm Thursday 11th December 2008

A FURTHER shift has been scrapped at Oxford's Mini plant. An estimated 1,200 production workers were told, as the plant began its extended Christmas shut-down on Monday, that they would not be working the weekend shift of January 9-11.

Traders 'hanging on'

2:32pm Thursday 11th December 2008

OXFORDSHIRE’S market towns could be hard hit in the New Year, because many traders are ‘hanging on by their fingernails’, says Keith Slater, of Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce.

Jobs go at frozen foods firm

2:31pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Windrush Frozen Foods, which last year moved to new premises in the Windrush business park, at Witney, has been put into administration, with the loss of 70 jobs. The company was taken over by managing director Robert Arpino with partners Alison Rushworth and Alan Savage in 1995.

New Year worry for shops

2:30pm Thursday 11th December 2008

THE manager of an Oxford shopping centre says retailers will have a steady Christmas but will be in for a “January from hell.”

The Pier axes head office staff

4:22pm Tuesday 9th December 2008

Almost half of the head office staff at troubled retailer The Pier have been made redundant.

New name for Oxford Genome Sciences

5:05pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008

OXFORD Genome Sciences, of Milton Park, near Abingdon, has changed its name to Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT).

RM wins £12m schools IT deal

5:04pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008

SCHOOLS computer company RM has won a £12m contract to provide ICT services to the London Borough of Hackney’s BSF (Building Schools for the Future) programme. The deal covers six secondary schools and four special educational needs schools, and will be delivered over three phases. RM will take responsibility for the design, implementation and day-to-day management of the ICT infrastructure.

Oxfordshire education HQ for sale

10:05am Thursday 27th November 2008

THE headquarters of Oxfordshire’s education department, Macclesfield House, is up for sale.

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