Following J Wilkie’s death in 1904 his sons took over the business, initially as J Wilkie & Co and then as J Wilkie Bros, finally selling up circa 1908-9.

The business was taken up in 1910, initially by the Auckland Aerated Water Co. Ltd, a company set up by a number of Auckland confectioners and grocers, but within the year the new firm was bankrupted and was sold to M/w Lichenstein & Arnoldson who moved the plant to Randolph St and operated briefly as Wilkie & Co. The following year J Endean re-established the business as Wilkies Ltd but again a short-lived venture which ended with the firm’s liquidation in 1912. The new owners, the ALVA Mineral Water Co then ran the business until 1955 and continued to use the Wilkie name for some years.