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Stiller’s new recruits Josh McCartin (left) and Steven
Stones (right) with former apprentice Ryan Baiey, who
has been promoted to shift supervisor as part of the
firm’s reorganisation.
Driver jobs created as logistics
firm’s new distribution warehouse
improves efficiency
Newton Aycliffe-based Stiller Warehousing and Distribution has
created seven new jobs after giving its distribution system an overhaul.
The logistics firm has invested heavily in
relocating its pallet distribution operation to
within its main site on Aycliffe Business Park.
It has also taken on four new forklift drivers
and three office employees as part of a
restructuring which has enabled it to cope
with an increase in demand.
Stiller provides cost-effective warehousing
and distribution services to businesses
across the North-East and is also a member
and major shareholder in Palletline, a national
co-operative network of 70 companies.
Its overnight Palletline operation involves
Stiller handling more than 1,600 pallets every
day, carrying goods ranging from food stuffs
and packing to cookware, building cladding
and shopping trollies.
The Palletline operation had previously
been run at an external, leased site about
a mile away from Stiller’s main site on
Ridgeway.
But after the family-run firm moved its
pallet storage facility into its new stateof-the-art warehouse - a 40,000 sq ft
5,000-pallet facility which increased Stiller’s
warehousing capacity by nearly 50% - in
September, it has created room to relocate
its Palletline operation.
A total of more than £1.1m has been
invested in the new warehouse and
relocation of its pallet distribution operation.
It has enabled Stiller to consolidate its
two main operations into its head office site
which has increa