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Software firm sinks takeover bid

3:17pm Friday 2nd January 2009

A software firm has defeated a hostile takeover bid from a rival.

Photography firm pulls down the shutters

4:59pm Tuesday 30th December 2008

Studio photography business Olan Mills has become the latest casualty of the credit crunch after announcing it is set to call in the administrators.

Car-parts jobs at risk

9:41am Wednesday 24th December 2008

SEVENTY-ONE workers at a car parts supplier near Wantage were facing a bleak future after their firm went into administration.

Funding cut for OX1

9:40am Wednesday 24th December 2008

COUNCIL leaders have withdrawn funding from city-centre management company OX1.

Oxfordshire bucks property downturn

Mark Charter, of Carter Jonas

9:39am Wednesday 24th December 2008

OXFORDSHIRE is bucking the property downturn, with housebuyers begining to return to the market as prices fall, say estate agents.

Whittard of Chelsea 'on the brink of administration'

11:31am Tuesday 23rd December 2008

Old established tea and coffee retailer Whittard of Chelsea is reported to be on the brink of administration.

£1.5m for transplant invention

12:20pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

OXFORD University spin-out company OrganOx has raised £1.5m from investors to develop a device for sustaining transplant organs outside the body.

Oxon magnet bound for outer space

12:19pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

A HUGE magnet destined for outer space left Oxfordshire this week with a police escort.

Rally car jobs at risk

Subaru drivers visited Prodrive's Banbury factory for the Colin McRae memorial run

12:18pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

PRODRIVE is pulling its Subaru rally team out of the World Rally Championships, putting almost 100 jobs at risk.

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.



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