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Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker
with the Resolution Media and
Publishing team (left to right)
Julie Burniston, Bob Cuffe, Carole
Sanderson and Dave Allan.
WE LOVE
PRINT
How Aycliffe provided the launchpad for publishing
company which is proving print hasn’t had its day
A
thriving publishing company is proving
there’s life in the old printing dog yet.
Resolution Media and Publishing, co-
owned by Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker,
is expanding its team in Middlesbrough after
successfully launching new magazines and
events.
Walker launched Aycliffe Today more than
seven years ago, and its associated business
magazine followed in November 2012.
Based on the same Aycliffe Today Business
model, Walker and his business partner Dave
Allan launched Tees Business in March 2015.
After starting out with 36 pages, the
publication has quadrupled in size and has
established itself as the voice of business for
the Tees Valley region.
Resolution – named after Captain James
Cook’s HMS Resolution – has since launched
the very first Tees Businesswomen Awards
event, held at Wynyard Hall in October
last year, with Teesside University pro vice
chancellor Jane Turner the keynote speaker.
“Thank you for having the vision, tenacity
and commitment to making this night such a
success,” said Turner, the university’s gender
champion. “Two unassuming men making an
impact. It’s so refreshing.”
The organisers are already gearing up
for the 2019 event on October 24, with all
sponsorship packages snapped up, and
expect 350 people to be there on the night.
To complement the women awards,
Resolution have launched the inaugural Tees
Tech Awards, in partnership with Digital City
(part of Teesside University), to celebrate
some of the many stand-out companies and
individuals from the Tees Valley’s thriving
digital and tech sector.
The awards ceremony will also take place
in Wynyard’s Grand Marquee next April, while
nearly all sponsorship packages have been
taken up.
Resolution are also planning other new
business publications, including the brand
new Wear Business – covering the business
communities of Sunderland, Seaham,
Peterlee, Washington, Houghton-le-Spring,
Chester-le-Street and Durham – to be
launched later this year.
And, alongside their business publications,
nearly three years ago the publishers
launched Teesside’s only dedicated
lifestyle magazine, Tees Life, with 9,000
copies delivered free to homes and
businesses across Teesside including
Wynyard, Eaglescliffe, Yarm, Ingleby
Barwick, Wolviston, Norton, Hartburn,
Nunthorpe, Marton, Linthorpe, Stokesley
and Guisborough four times a year – a
publication driven by content, but supported
by advertising revenue.
Front cover star interviews have included
the actor Mark Benton, Paralympian Tanni