Hundreds of staff at Swindon-based ODS Business services have been made redundant after the firm announced that in was going into administration.

The firm, based at Spectrum in West Swindon specialises in the manufacture and distribution of CDs and DVDs, and it is the manufacturing segment that has been hit with the redundancies.

BDO Stoy Hayward have been appointed as joint administrators and will look for a buyer for the distribution arm of ODS.

Representatives for the administrators commented that with the increasing numbers of people downloading content from the internet and cheaper manufacturing elsewhere in the world, companies in this sector are struggling.

The company moved in to half of the Renault Spectrum building in January 2007 and had hopes to take over the other half as production increased.