In 2014, it was reported that Wilko had 372 stores, 23,000 employees and annual revenues of £1.5 billion.
[citation needed] He ceased to be a director of Wilko on 18 December 1997 when he died.
[5] He married Mary Cooper on 22 October 1934 at St Peter's, Highfields, Leicester.
[citation needed] Their son, Tony Wilkinson was born in 1937.
[citation needed] Wilkinson died on 18 December 1997, aged 91.