| Jobs boost at fleet specialist | | 4:12pm Friday 1st February 2008 | | Twenty new jobs have been created after a commercial vehicle hire firm landed a multi-million pound contract. |
| Mini plant agency workers axed | | 12:06pm Friday 25th January 2008 | | Up to 60 agency workers at the Cowley Mini plant will lose their jobs after it was claimed bosses over-estimated the number of staff needed on the production line. |
 | Depot move is really smooth | | 9:50am Tue 22 Jan 08 | | One of Britain's biggest hardwood timber merchants, Timbmet, has moved its depot from Oxford to make way for a housing development. |
| Chiltern Railways sold to German firm | | 9:44am Tuesday 22nd January 2008 | | German rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has bought up award-winning company Chiltern Railways for an undisclosed sum. |
 | BMW boost for Brookes' young engineers | | 1:48pm Mon 21 Jan 08 | | Student engineers at Oxford Brookes University will gain hands-on experience of cutting-edge automotive technology - thanks to BMW, owners of the Mini car factory in Cowley. |
| Office space firm expands again | | 1:42pm Monday 21st January 2008 | | A company offering office accommodation has undergone another major expansion thanks to demand from small firms and sole traders. |
 | Proteins provide growth | | 8:55pm Wed 16 Jan 08 | | A new company has been launched to commercialise a technology that could help develop new drugs and diagnostic tests. |
| County's jobless tally rises | | 1:59pm Wednesday 16th January 2008 | | The number of people claiming unemployment benfit has risen for the first time in 10 months. |
 | Eco-home looking to the future | | 10:47am Tue 15 Jan 08 | | A futuristic eco-home is being planned in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in South Oxfordshire near the home of the late Beatle George Harrison. |
 | Cars firm may close | | 10:36am Tue 15 Jan 08 | | The boss of one of Oxfordshire's major employers says he will shut the company down with the loss of 500 jobs, unless plans to develop a former US airbase are given the green light. | | Reader comments (2) |
 | Water experts aid villagers in Africa | | 2:05pm Mon 14 Jan 08 | | Two workers from a Witney engineering firm are to travel to West Africa to work on a charity designed to improve vital water supplies for a remote group of villages. |
| Oxford Instruments growth on track | | 2:03pm Monday 14th January 2008 | | Hi-tech company Oxford Instruments said its plans to double the size of the business within five years were on track. |
| Bid to commercialise medical technology | | 4:36pm Thursday 10th January 2008 | | A NEW company has been launched to commercialise a technology that could help develop new drugs and diagnostic tests.
Scientists at Oxford Brookes University and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology have collaborated to launch Oxford Expression Technologies, a spin-out company providing products, services and consultancy to global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. |
 | Mini sets new sales record | | 11:48am Wed 9 Jan 08 | | The Cowley-built Mini has passed another sales milestone with its best year since its launch in 2001. |
 | Rapidly expanding firm moves again | | 4:12pm Mon 7 Jan 08 | | Staff at a rapidly expanding Oxford firm have just completed their fourth office move in the last two years,
Holiday Lettings has taken up the second floor of Barclay House, formerly the Oxfam building in Banbury Road, Summertown, after outgrowing its existing premises in St Clements, Oxford. |
| Airport engineering staff in limbo | | 1:29pm Monday 24th December 2007 | | UP TO 80 engineering employees at Oxford Airport face a bleak Christmas after receiving redundancy notices. |
| 'Business as usual' despite move | | 10:00am Wednesday 19th December 2007 | | The boss of an historic Oxford photography firm insists that it will be business as usual despite its premises being sold for redevelopment. |
 | Hardide grows despite losses | | 12:08pm Mon 17 Dec 07 | | Bosses at a hi-tech Bicester engineering firm are upbeat for the future, despite slipping further into the red. |
 | Parkinson's disease hope | | 10:53am Thu 13 Dec 07 | | Scientists at an Oxford biotech firm are hoping to make a breakthrough in the search to find an effective treatment for Parkinson's Disease. |
 | Green fuel firm lands major deal | | 3:32pm Wed 12 Dec 07 | | Pioneering green fuel company Regenatec has won a major contract to supply its technology to a bus company. |
| Research funding 'hit by Diamond project' | | 4:36pm Tuesday 11th December 2007 | | A major new science facility in Oxfordshire could have contributed to an £80m black hole in Government funding for research, a group of leading physicists has claimed. |
| Mini sets new sales record | | 11:47am Friday 7th December 2007 | | THE Cowley Mini plant has already set a new sales record after just 11 months of the year. |
| Bringing Pullman's magic to screen | | 10:21am Friday 7th December 2007 | | STAFF at two Oxford companies helped to create the stunning special effects for the Christmas blockbuster The Golden Compass. |
| 'Visionary' firm honoured | | 3:10pm Thursday 6th December 2007 | | AN Oxford business is one of 39 "visionary companies" worldwide named as technology pioneers by the World Economic Forum. |
| Lab move will create jobs | | 3:09pm Thursday 6th December 2007 | | ABOUT 30 jobs will be created in Oxfordshire following the decision of a drug-testing company to move two laboratories to Milton Park, near Didcot. |
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