Giant electrical consumer goods retailer Dixons is to double the size of its store in Oxford's Clarendon Centre.

It will move across the Mall to units 15 and 16 to take over the former Etam and Halfords' units, amounting to 4,900 sq ft.

A spokesman for Dixons, which now employs 12 full-time workers and seven part-timers, said the expansion would mean between five and ten more jobs. Graham Phillips, a director of London agents Harper Dennis Hobbs, who handled the letting on behalf of landlords Atlantic Fund Management, said: "We are now looking for a household name, preferably from the fashion world, to take over the present Dixons unit."

Dixons will move into the new premises next April. It has taken a 15-year full repairing and insuring lease at £452,500 a year.

Now the landlords are carrying out building work to knock together units 15 and 16.

The building work involves reconfiguring the plan of the Clarendon Centre, which was built in 1984.

The Halfords shop had access from Shoe Lane. When Dixons takes over, the only access to the new store will be from inside the covered area of the centre.