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WORDS: MARTIN WALKER
PICTURES: CHRIS BOOTH
Stiller Warehousing and Distribution
managing director Matthew Stiller is
encouraging Aycliffe businesses to enter this
year’s fifth annual Make Your Mark awards.
HAPPY AS
LORRY
Aycliffe Company of the Year is urging local businesses to
enter this year’s fifth annual Make Your Mark awards…
Matthew Stiller and his father
Paul with warehouse manager
Gary Auston inside the firm’s
newly-refurbished warehouse.
T
he Stiller family isn’t unfamiliar
with these pages of Aycliffe Today
Business.
Since launching the magazine more
than six years ago, we’ve featured around
150 different companies of varying sizes from
around this vibrant business park.
Stiller Warehousing and Distribution – one
of Aycliffe’s oldest and best-known residents
– featured on the front cover of our second
issue, around this time in 2013.
Managing director Paul was in the process
of handing the reins to son Matthew, who
has since become the third generation of the
Stiller family to lead the business.
Back then, as I sat in Paul’s old office, a
number of framed archive images portrayed
halcyon days of the 50s and 60s – the firm’s
first truck and a five-year-old Paul Stiller
licking an ice cream among the historical
gallery.
But Stiller’s business and premises,
since that feature, have changed beyond
recognition.