Homeserve workers escape the axe
4:36pm Wednesday 8th February 2012
The jobs of 70 staff at utility insurance firm Homeserve in the town are safe, despite the company cutting 200 jobs.
Sun, 12th Feb 2012
Oxford Business
Mini boosts apprenticeships
10:39am Tuesday 7th February 2012
The Cowley Mini plant is boosting its apprentice intake by more than 50 per cent this year.
RM slumps into the red
3:50pm Monday 6th February 2012
Bosses at troubled schools technology supplier RM Education revealed the firm has slumpd into the red over the past year.
Mini sales fall slightly
9:36am Monday 6th February 2012
UK sales of the Cowley-built Mini dipped slightly in January, latest figures have revealed.
Exports help firms ride out recession
2:00pm Friday 3rd February 2012
MORE and more Oxfordshire firms are looking to ride out the economic crisis by boosting their exports.
Market wants to tweet younger customers
7:00am Friday 27th January 2012
OXFORD’S iconic 18th century Covered Market will turn to 21st century social networking sites to drum up trade.
Booked into John Lewis model
11:08am Thursday 26th January 2012
Prescient indeed was Toby Blackwell. Faced with a continuing loss at the book-selling business founded by his grandfather and determined to keep the “family name over the door”, he moved the goalposts.
Top award for Mini
9:26am Tuesday 24th January 2012
The Mini has picked up a top award for the tenth consecutive year.
Leader of the pack
4:06pm Thursday 19th January 2012
Philip Agg, of Harwell spin-out Accentus Medical, explains his company's implant coatings technology
Music mixing masters 'best of British'
2:30pm Thursday 19th January 2012
A MUSIC technology firm has launched a recruitment drive after one of its products was nominated as an example of British manufacturing at its best.
Some woolly thinking
2:24pm Thursday 19th January 2012
High street retailers may be hitting the rocks but one enterprising duo have got their new business all sewn up. Claire Jarvis and Leslie Wildman opened The Fibreworks in Middle Row, Chipping Norton, selling knitting and crochet materials as well as haberdashery and have never looked back.
Redundancy was the spur for 'virtual' Debbie
2:25pm Thursday 19th January 2012
Being made redundant was a devastating experience for Debbie Penn, especially as she had spent 25 years with her employer, RM Education.
Seeds of enterprise
2:27pm Thursday 19th January 2012
A former Oxford University student who became a gardener at his old college is now setting up a co-operative to grow and sell local vegetables in Oxfordshire.
Foodie dream comes true
2:29pm Thursday 19th January 2012
Debbie Warland began cooking at four, took business advice at 16 and became a head chef at 23. Now she has realised her dream and opened a swish eaterie.
County bosses upbeat despite the gloom
8:00am Thursday 19th January 2012
Business leaders across the county remain upbeat about current trading and future prospects, despite the ongoing economic crisis.