How it all started
Get to know the story of how a determined salesman, an ad guy, and a warehouse full of product created the #1 selling metal cleaner and the iconic CLR brand.
THE 1940’s
In 1949 Manny Gutterman founded Manny Gutterman & Associates, Inc. as a national sales representative organization. This new company was dedicated to selling all types of proprietary products to chain drug, variety, hardware and department stores and also established an ethical and reliable channel for "close-out" merchandise
THE HAIR WIZ
COMMERCIAL
The Hair Wiz was a featured product from one of the variety chains in the 40’s.
THE 1960’s
A friend in advertising asked Manny to sell a warehouse full of cleaningproduct in barter from a bankrupt client. Of course he accepted the challenge and Jelmar, LLC. was born. Manny – along with sons Steven and Arthur – reformulated and repackaged the abandoned product and sold it as Tarn-X® Tarnish Remover.
THE TARN-X®
COMMERCIAL
The original Tarn-X as seen on TV commercial showed people how to polish silver.
THE 1980’s
Manny, Arthur and Steven were meeting with business partner Al Eicoff to develop a product that could serve as a complement to Tarn-X. A powerful lime and rust remover was developed. And after some struggles to find a name for the product, CLR® Calcium, Lime & Rust Remover was born.
THE FIRST CLR®
COMMERCIAL
The first CLR Calcium, Lime, & Rust commercial
featured in the 1980’s.
THE 2000’S & BEYOND
In 2007, Alison Gutterman continues the family legacy and became thepresident of Jelmar. , Jelmar developed and grew CLR into the company’s second nationally-recognized cleaning brand. Jelmar continued to develop new and innovative products, including CLR Bath & Kitchen Cleaner, CLR Power Plumber, CLR Mold & Mildew & More.
Today’s clr
commercials
CLR current advertising, featuring a nasty cast
of characters, urges you to fight the clean fight.
Defeat the nasty mold & mildew.
Get rid of that pesky countertop crud.
Show that annoying disposal rot who is boss.