in about 1886, the company was reorganized and became a public company limited by shares. In the second year, the company set up a semicolon in Nanjing Road (now No.71 Nanjing East Road) in Shanghai, and later set up semicolons or agencies in Hankou, Tianjin, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other cities. In addition to western medicine, it also prepared and distributed Chinese patent medicine pills, powders, pastes and pills, and various medicines combining traditional Chinese and western medicine. By the beginning of this century, "Watsons" has been regarded as the largest pharmacy in the Far East, among which Shanghai Branch has the largest turnover.
in addition, the company also distributes and represents chemicals in Europe and America, and has a photographic department to distribute photographic equipment, photographic liquid and materials. At the end of the last century, the western "Dutch water" (soda) has opened the Shanghai market and become a fashionable drink. The company also purchased the land of Hengqiao Road in North Sichuan to establish the "Watsons soda factory". It is said that it was from this that Shanghainese renamed "Dutch water" as soda. In 1932, during the "128" Songhu War, Watson's soda factory was destroyed. After that, the site was bought by real estate developers and built into a residential building, which is equivalent to Meimei Lane, Lane 1746, Sichuan North Road. Watsons also acts as an agent to import alcoholic beverages. Before Coca-Cola entered China, Watsons was the general agent.
after liberation, "Watsons" withdrew from China, and in the 198s, "Watsons" returned to Shanghai to jointly establish Yimin Watsons Food Company with Yiliang No.1 Food Factory.