14 | Aycliffe Today Business
Stiller Warehousing and Distribution managing director Paul
Stiller (right) with his young recruits - Keiran Jones, Jessica
Tweddle, Ryan Bailey, Jessica Walton and Lizzie Brophy.
DISTRIBUTION FIRM SHOWS COMMITMENT
TO TRAINING YOUNG PEOPLE
A family-run distribution company is showing its commitment to training up young people by taking
on a new Apprentice, while the number of young staff is at its highest number ever.
Stiller Warehousing and Distribution has
taken on Keiran Jones after a string of
Apprenticeship success stories.
The 17-year-old, from Newton Aycliffe,
has just started his level 2 Apprenticeship
in business administration through local
training provider Optimum Skills.
He’s following in the footsteps of three
employees who completed similar training
programmes with the firm.
Former Sunnydale School pupil Jessica
Tweddle, 23, from Middridge, has just
finished her level 2 Apprenticeship in
business administration while Jessica
Walton, 20, from Spennymoor, finished
the same Apprenticeship last year and
now works in customer services - both
programmes were delivered through
Aycliffe-based training provider ITEC.
Ryan Bailey, 21, a former Greenfield
College pupil from Newton Aycliffe, has
been with Stiller for two-and-a-half years
after completing a level 3 Apprenticeship
in business administration, also through
ITEC, and is now transport operator for the
firm.
Managing Director Paul Stiller said: “We
feel training young people is critical, while
also employing experienced members of
staff.
“We have a fantastic balance of highlyskilled, experienced people who are
passing on their knowledge and knowhow
to our young staff.
”
Stiller’s young workers make up a total
of 21 members of staff aged 25 or under,
representing just under a fifth of its
115-strong workforce.
That also includes 24-year-old Lizzie
Brophy, a former Teesside High
School student from Eaglescliffe, who
completed a psychology degree at Leeds
Metropolitan University in 2010 and initially
joined Stiller to cover summer holiday
relief, but has recently been promoted to
sales executive after working in customer
services.
Paul added: “Lizzie is a fine example to
show graduates that they don’t have to
leave the Nor QX\