TDIndustries

TDIndustries, founded in 1946, is an American construction and technology corporation that provides commercial and industrial services such as air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing systems primarily through General Contractors. They also provide process equipment installation for customers, operations, maintenance and repair of mechanical and electrical systems, and provide emergency service. The company is based in Dallas, Texas with offices in Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix and Denver.

In 2013 the company was included in Fortune magazine's list of the "100 Best Places to Work in America". It has been on the list since the it was first published in 1998, and in 2005 was included in Fortune's "100 Best Hall of Fame," a list of 22 companies in the U.S. who have appeared on the list every year.

Founded as Texas Distributors, Inc., the name TDIndustries was coined in the early 1980s.

The first board of directors meeting of Texas Distributors, Inc. was recorded on February 5, 1946 with Jack Lowe, Sr., his mother, Florence Lowe, and her sister, Julia Lee Greer, in attendance. The three of them, according to the minutes, “subscribe for and agree to take” two hundred shares of stock in the company with Greer and Jack Lowe each accepting ninety-nine shares and Florence Lowe two shares, all at a face value of one hundred dollars.

Greer, who ran an auto parts business, co-signed the bank loan that provided twenty thousand dollars in start-up capital. She also lent the new company working space for a time in her building at 1820 Canton. The company charter was filed immediately with the Secretary of State’s office, enabling them to meet again at 2 pm the next day at Greer’s building for the “first meeting of the incorporators and stockholders and subscribers.”

At that point ten thousand dollars cash was advanced to the corporation and the three stockholders elected themselves directors for a year; they held a board of directors’ meeting called for an hour later at which they adopted by-laws, approved a stock form and made themselves the company’s first officers. By a unanimous vote of three, Lowe became both chairman of the board and president of the company. Mrs. Lowe was elected vice president and Greer secretary-treasurer.

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