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right Club Aluminum was an American cookware manufacturer. The cookware came in many colors, such as Turquoise, Pink, and Brown. The company is also notable for its president Herbert J. Taylor, creator of the The Four-Way Test which was later adopted by Rotary International.

History
Founded in 1923 Club Aluminum Cookware was initially sold by door-to-door salesmen until the Great Depression made this method of sales too costly.

In 1932, Club Aluminum Company was on the verge of bankruptcy. Then-Vice President of Jewel Tea Company, Herbert J. Taylor, was asked to loan his services to the company in hopes of avoiding insolvency. "After settling the law suits pending against the company, Taylor concluded that Club Aluminum was $ 400,000 in debt with no possibility that the existing level of sales could service short run debt payments. The Creditors Committee advised Taylor to file for bankruptcy. Jewel Tea concluded that the situation was hopeless and asked Taylor to return full-time to Jewel." Instead, Taylor left his $33,000 salary at Jewel and became President of Club Aluminum, with a salary of $6,000. "In order to give the company some more time to accomplish the turnaround he borrowed $ 6,100 using his Jewel stock as collateral and put that money into Club Aluminum." This investment also gave Taylor a controlling interest in the company.

"When Herbert Taylor took over Club Aluminum the situation was so desperate that he believed himself to be the only person who thought there was hope. In developing his plan of action he gave first priority to changing the ethical climate in the company." "If the people who worked for Club Aluminum were to think right, I knew they would do right. What we needed was a simple, easily remembered guide to right conduct - a sort of ethical yardstick- which all of us in the company could memorize and apply to what we thought, said and did." That yardstick ended up being The Four-Way Test. When Taylor became president of the Rotary Club of Chicago in 1938, he introduced The Four-Way Test to Rotary International.

In the meantime, Club Aluminum returned to profitability. The company was able to pay off its $ 400,000 debt within five years. Over one million dollars in dividends were paid over the following fifteen years. And net worth climbed to $1.75 million over the same period.

In 1984, Regal Ware Worldwide acquired the Club Aluminum Company. The company was rebranded as Club Products Division of RegalWare, however production of Club Aluminum cookware ceased shortly after the acquisition, in 1990. The plant (Jacksonville Manufacturing) in Jacksonville, Arkansas, which manufactured RegalWare and Club Products was eventually sold.

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