Category Archives: Business

Local Excellence Market

Local Excellence Market
Lots of people were out in town enjoying the occasional sunshine and the local excellence market.
Local Excellence Market
The carrots and other produce on this stall were picked yesterday.
Local Excellence Market
Duncan Brown, ex Mayor, bought some beetroot.
Local Excellence Market
There were samples of very tasty Double Gloucester, and Blue Veined Cheddar, from Glastonbury.
Local Excellence Market
Jill Carver, from Added Ingredients, had some very fine Olive Oil for people to try.
Local Excellence Market
The carbon cutters had a bike that drove a food mixer making strawberry smoothies – just visible behind the Town Crier on the bike.

The local excellence market was on from 9:00 – 14:00 today.

Fair Trade Group

After all the Fair Trade Comments on the post about the Abbey Fish Ponds here is a post about Fair Trade …
Fair Trade
The Chamber of Commerce’s Fair Trade group met at lunchtime to discuss re-establishing Abingdon as a Fair Trade town. There were representatives from shops, including Waitrose and The Co-op, the town council, churches, schools and general consumers.
Fair Trade
As well as planning a Fair Trade day on the Market Place on 20th August – where there are still pitches available for businesses who would like to take part (contact the Chamber), the group set up a steering committee.

On 20th August, I will be going bananas for FairTrade again. But this time I hope to be part of a bunch. Banana costumes cost from £8 and upwards on the internet.

A company with a long history

Nuffield Press  has been put into administration.
Nuffield Press
Nuffield Press began printing the Morris Owner in 1925 from the original Morris Motors factory in Cowley.  They were originally called the Morris Oxford Press and renamed as Nuffield Press in 1942.
Nuffield Press
They began printing Morris and MG periodicals from the original Morris Factory in Cowley – a building that looks as if it has been converted to housing.
Nuffield Press
Nuffield Press are now located in Abingdon down the bottom of what is Nuffield Way,  and part of the Nuffield Centrum, and adjacent to what was once the MG Works.

Since the 80’s Nuffield Press has diversified away from the Motor Industry into magazines, catalogues, brochures and college prospectuses.  They are a good company with a solid reputation and plenty of history – according to comments in the trade journal Print Week , but times are tough for printers

More Mediterranean Abingdon

Lemon Grove
The restaurant at 5 The Square has been sympathetically painted to tone in with the neighbours, and two lemon trees placed in front. The food appears to come more from the southern Mediterranean with dishes like Falafel, Kafta Meshwi, and Cous Cous Merquez. The premises was previously Salinas who did Moroccan and Lebanese menus.