To celebrate 20 years of the MINI Plant Oxford, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited the home of the brand at MINI Plant Oxford, to meet the people involved with integrating the manufacturing of the MINI Electric into their standard production line. The Oxford...
The South East’s attractiveness as an investment destination proved resilient amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with the region seeing a decline in projects in line with the overall UK and European markets and recording the fourth highest number of projects out of all parts of the...
Following £32m funding from the UK Space Agency, space tech companies Astroscale, Celestia UK, and SatixFy Space Systems joined OneWeb through the European Space Agency’s Sunrise Programme to create a demonstration satellite, set to launch in 2022. The beam hopping satellite, also named ‘Joey-Sat’, will allow...
Despite the past year being challenging for the industrial market, there has been a record take-up in the Thames Valley’s industrial market according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s (LSH) 2021 Industrial and Logistics Report. LSH’s report highlighted the growing demand of the Thames Valley with a strong...
The UK has consistently attracted considerable overseas investment and has a long and successful history of trade with the rest of the world. In light of this, PwC is pleased to share the new edition of our “Doing business and investing in the UK'' guide, providing...
Oxfordshire-based Astroscale, market leader in satellite servicing, has announced the End-of-Life Service’s successful launch. Controlled and operated from its Harwell Campus facility this launch represents the world’s first commercial mission and a step towards the removal of orbital space debris. Why? With over 3,000 working satellites in...
The new £40m Hub building will house the Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI), a national institute dedicated to creating technologies which will change the way researchers see life through interdisciplinary research and technology development, has reached practical completion. The Hub, funded through the UK Research and Innovation...
For the fourth consecutive year Oxford and Reading have been ranked as the top performing UK cities on PwC’s Good Growth for Cities 2020 report. This year’s Good Growth for Cities 2020 report, published January 2021, looks into the economic impact of coronavirus on local and regional...
INEOS, the UK’s largest private company, has donated £100m to create a new Oxford University Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance. The new institute is set to combat the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The resistance is known as a ‘silent pandemic’, currently causing an estimated...
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), based at Harwell Campus, has invested in GlobalTrust, a data analytics company, which supports public policy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies. GlobalTrust, began its UK operation at the end of 2020, taking office space at the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire – further...